Fundación ONCE  Yes to solidarity and social integration

The ONCE Foundation for Cooperation and the Social Integration of People with Disabilities (hereinafter, the ONCE Foundation), was created in February 1988 as a result of a resolution of the ONCE General Council and was presented to the general public in September of that same year as an instrument to channel the cooperation and solidarity of the blind towards other disabled groups, to help improve their day-to-day lives. Right from its origins, the blind group has shown a spirit of solidarity towards other disabled groups, in accordance with the possibilities of each moment in time. Towards the middle of the eighties, with the reform of the cupón, the ONCE was gradually able to incorporate non-blind cupón sellers, integrating more than 10,000 people with other disabilities between 1985 and 1987. A further step in this effort took place in 1988 with the creation of the ONCE Foundation. A Meeting Ground In addition to the ONCE itself, as the founding institution, the ONCE Foundation, through its Board of Trustees or maximum governing body, incorporates the principal Spanish disabled organizations, as follows: COCEMFE (Coordinating National Confederation of the Physically Handicapped in Spain). FEAPS (Spanish Confederation of Organisations for the Mentally Retarded). CNSE (Spanish National Confederation of the Deaf). FIAPAS (Spanish Federation of Associations of Parents and Friends of the Deaf). Also forming part of the ONCE Foundation's Board of Trustees are members of the CERMI (National Committee of Representatives of the Disabled). This is a platform that acts as an umbrella group for the principal disabled organizations in Spain, many of them with a regional scope, which brings together more than 2,000 associations and entities representing the 3.5 million disabled persons living in Spain today.