Gaztelan started its activity in the 80s, a particularly difficult period for the working-class areas of Pamplona, affected by the economic crisis with a 25% unemployment rate. There few job opportunities for young people and the options for training, business advice, intermediation or careers guidance were scarce. Public resources were insufficient to find solutions and social or private initiatives related to unemployment were virtually non-existent.

Since its beginnings, the Gaztelan Foundation has pursued two objectives: to relieve the difficulties that suffer marginalized people, and to fight the actual causes that generate social exclusion.

Thus, the two main lines of activity of the institution are to promote employment and labour insertion (i.e. finding or providing employment for people in need), and to criticise and suggest alternatives to the sources of social exclusion.

The achievements prove that it is possible to combine economic feasibility with social development, through the setting-up of companies and employment, labour insertion, equal opportunities and sustainable economic development.

Gaztelan Foundation
C/ Provincias, 6 - bajo
31014 Pamplona
Spain
Phone: +34 948 136140
Fax: +34 948 136 137
Ana Cañas Aparicio

28/11/2006

case

Urban Policy > Social inclusion & integration

Integration of social groups