Focusing on extreme poverty We are an institution for the poorest people in our society. Here they can get over poverty, exclusion and loneliness. We provide a home, food, medical care, education, workshops, employment, and human warmth. Our main feature is that we take care of every aspect of the person, without time-boundaries or cost limits, in a true commitment with people. Each one is important for us, and we make our best to fully reintegrate them in society.

Every individual arriving to our center becomes a member of the family. If he (or she, in short) wants to go back to a normal life, we will be giving them the necessary support, no matter the cost nor the time.

We are a non profit association declared of public interest by the Spanish Government in 1997, whose main activity is the rehabilitation of abandoned and socially excluded people.

Amongst the groups we work with, the most important ones are alcohol-addicts, mentally ill patients, homeless, the socially unadapted, extremely poor, unemployed handicapped, etc., that is to say, the groups not being assisted by the public/private services to a certain extent. Our staff counts about 50 people, some are volunteers, some are employed.

Additional information (to be completed in the near future)

• Our location
• The way we work
• About our financing
• Our values and principles
• Meet our managing staff
• Our history
• A list of awards we have been honoured with

Some other legal details

Registered in the Canary Islands Regional Government, Dirección General de Justicia e Interior with the number (dm; 1.675, C.I.F.:G-35.221.845

The Obra Social has a Special Employment Center for handicapped that makes furniture, Registry no. 4/90 qualified on 01/10/90. Special Employment Centers (Centro Especial de Empleo in Spanish) is a legal form of enterprise with specific tax benefits and social security discounts.

It was declared of Public Interest by the Spanish Government on March 20th, 1997.

It's independent of political parties or ideas, and does not belong to a specific church. It's based on solidarity, ethical and christian values. The Managing staff declares itself as Catholic in faith, but in the rest of positions we have all kinds of religious, non religious or atheistic people, as the only requisite is a personal will to help the poor and excluded and professional skills to carry out this mission.