The UB’s Solidary Basket raises more than five thousand euros for the mental health of young people

News | Solidarity
(20/12/2023)
This year, the University of Barcelona’s Solidary Basket raised €5,168 from 2,584 participations (tickets). The money raised will go to the Bengala project, from Arep Association, an initiative aimed at young people aged between 15 and 29 in the city of Barcelona who suffer from mental health problems and require psychological support. This project offers individual psychological care to both young people and their families, as well as an emotional management group for young people to acquire basic skills of emotional awareness and management.
News | Solidarity
20/12/2023
This year, the University of Barcelona’s Solidary Basket raised €5,168 from 2,584 participations (tickets). The money raised will go to the Bengala project, from Arep Association, an initiative aimed at young people aged between 15 and 29 in the city of Barcelona who suffer from mental health problems and require psychological support. This project offers individual psychological care to both young people and their families, as well as an emotional management group for young people to acquire basic skills of emotional awareness and management.

The winners of the ninth edition of the UB’s Solidarity Basket were: 

• Panera Tió: Mònica Alcaide Aguilar, member of the technical, management and administration and services staff. 

• Panera Neula: Francesc Xavier Riera Hernández, member of the teaching and research staff.  

• Panera Galet: Meritxell Milla Bret, member of the technical, management and administration and services staff. 

• Panera Pessebre: Maria Jesus Rodriguez Perez, member of the technical, management and administration and services staff. 

The University of Barcelona is grateful for the participation of the university community, as well as the UB companies and services that have contributed to the prizes that fill the four charity baskets. 

Previous editions 

The first edition of the Solidarity Basket raised €1,838, which went to a project promoted and managed by the UB Solidarity Foundation for social and labour insertion and the promotion of interculturality through urban and local agriculture, aimed at young people aged 18 to 25 from the Besós and Barcelonès Nord areas. Specifically, the money raised was used to launch a pre-employment integration initiative with fifteen young people from Santa Coloma de Gramenet at high risk of social exclusion, through training in vegetable gardening in urban areas. 

The second edition of the Solidary Basket raised €4,274, which went to La Marató de TV3, dedicated to stroke and spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries. This money was used to fund biomedical research projects of excellence selected by the La Marató de TV3 Foundation. 

One year later, the third edition of the Solidary Basket raised €4,684, which went to the Hospital Amigo programme of the Obra Social de Sant Joan de Déu. This money was used to improve the experience of hospitalised children and make it as positive as possible with various activities (hospital clowns, art therapy and graphite workshop, music therapy and singing workshops, volunteers and dog-assisted interventions). 

The fourth edition of the Solidary Basket raised €5,314, which went to the Obra Social Sant Joan de Déu, specifically to a project to improve the diagnosis and rehabilitation of children with cerebral palsy. The main objective of the project was to develop a platform to support the cognitive diagnosis of patients with motor disorders. 

In 2019, the fifth edition of the Solidarity Basket raised €3,496, which was donated to the UB's Support programme for refugees and people from conflict zones, coordinated by the UB Solidarity Foundation, to promote access to higher education for this group. 

The sixth edition of the Solidary Basket raised €5,456, which went to the research project on the impact of COVID-19 at the University, "Help Us Prevent New Outbreaks: Discovering Asymptomatic Carriers", linked to the UB Sponsors programme and promoted by the UB and the University Hospital of Bellvitge. 

The seventh edition of the Solidary Basket raised €4,878, which was allocated to the prevention of school failure and school dropout through the Petit UBinding programme, which detects reading difficulties in children at an early age and intervenes from the initial phase. 

The eighth edition of the Solidary Basket broke records (€7,140) compared to all previous editions of this solidarity programme. The money was donated to Arrels Fundació's Llatzeret project to help people living on the streets of Barcelona.