As the working plan establishes, one of the two annual meetings of the WGH (EUROCITIES) was held in Barcelona on October first, on the occasion of exchange of experiences of the representative organizations of the different cities (Barcelona, Bergen, Malmö, Newcastle, Munich, Oslo, Riga, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Utrecht, Wien and Warsaw) that make up the WGH
Fundació Mambré, on request of the ‘Departament d’ Acció Social i Ciutadania de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona’, was responsible for managing and organizing the meeting in one of our home residences (‘Llar Ronda’, meaning home), with members of the city hall, the WGH representatives, and Mambré’s employees.
At the meeting that took place on the first floor of the building on the ‘Ronda Universitat Avenue’, on first place there was a presentation on the Mambre Foundation presented by our director, Mrs. Txell Collelldemont, who explained the principle goals, functioning, and data from our Housing program of our organization in this last two years (2007 & 2008).
Once the presentation was finished it turned into a shift of posting questions and doubts from the participants. Many of them were centred on the founded functioning differences in between the organizations of he different countries, as well as the financing origins, or the financial aids received by ‘Fundació Mambré’, being public or private.
Next thing it was shown was the functioning and the principal characteristics of the Home Ronda, as an example of our Housing program for homeless people. Norms and rules, internal regulation, user profiles, contracting types, and statistic data over the residence, were what was focused on this part.
At last, the responsible for the housing program of Mambré, Mrs. Montserrat Galí, showed them the apartment and its rooms, at the same time as she explained the uses and the cohabiting habits of the residents.
We enclose a PDF document, a summary of the file that was handed to us by the city hall about EUROCITIES, its goals and working groups.
