Asociación Bienestar y Desarrollo

ABD is a non-profit organization nominated a “public service” by the government and which started in the 1980s. After 37 years, we still believe that everyone deserves to live in a society that minimizes or attempts to eradicate inequalities and social exclusions and we carry on to work to do so.
ABD provides different programs and services that offer solutions to most situations that generate vulnerability and social exclusion. We are dedicated to guiding people through this important path of their lives, trying to prevent situations where they may feel fragility. We work to meet their needs as well as the needs of those around them.
Our mission is to manage and coordinate processes focused on people’s empowerment while enhancing their autonomy. These processes are to be implemented efficiently, ethically and with proven levels of quality and sustainability.
We are developing more than 70 programs and services that respond to the processes that create situations of vulnerability or social exclusion. Situations like drug addiction and associated diseases, migration, violence within the family, early motherhood, old age, disability, mental health, or lack of basic goods such as housing and employment are addressed in more than 95,000 people we attend each year. Care work is complemented by training and awareness programs aimed specifically at a population of more than 600,000 youth, and with programs and community involvement and personal development that have an impact on more than 9,000 people.

This impact is due to the work of an interdisciplinary team of 2,000 professionals in the social and health care and an intervention model that maintains the participation of civil society in all its actions: 400 people involved in voluntary work. Voluntary action is an engaged and transformative activity. The volunteers express their responsibility and involvement in the community and create a social cohesion environment. No doubts, their work contribute to the defence of vulnerable people and groups interests.

ABD is structured in five main intervention’s areas. Each one has got several services for accomplish our mission and goals.
• Drugs Addiction Area makes an intervention in issues related to drug abuse and HIV/AIDS from a bio-psychosocial and community perspective in the services of prevention, care and inclusion designed to meet the specific people’s needs, promote social development and healthy lifestyles.
• Poverty and Inclusion area supplies all collectives in a situation of social vulnerability or exclusion. The strategies are based on prevention, care and information; all of them with the aim of achieving the social inclusion and integration.
• Childhood and family area offers attention, treatment and prevention of current family situations using new methods for developing family’s welfare. Beneficiaries are people with psychosocial problems within family environment (family violence, adoptions, child abuse, separation, etc.).
• Socio-health area includes attention, organization, coordination and management of all the services, both individual and collective, which are needed by dependency people.
From the beginning, we are committed to external supervision based in criteria of ethics, quality, efficiency and accountability. We set up several assurance systems of quality and transparency in entity management and in all our services and programs. From the beginning, ABD has audited its financial data by an external auditor, and since 2004 ABD’s Management System and all of our services and programs have been auditing and conforming to ISO Norm 9001:2008 by Bureau Veritas.
Since our foundation in the early 80s, we have always believed that cooperation and collaboration are inherent values in our project. We have worked very hard throughout the years to become a trustful organization. Together with citizens, public institutions and other organizations, we intend to create a support’s network. We actively participate in more than 55 platforms promoted by Third Sector organizations or public administration, as the Civil Society Forum on Drugs (CSF - EU).

Finally, in relation with the quality system used in ABD, in order to maintain and improve the quality of the services provided, we put in place a series of quality assurance systems and transparency in the management of the entity and all its services and programs.

For more info: https://abd.ong/about-us/abd