Publications

During 2023, we reached out to 3,290 homeless people. This is the highest figure we’ve seen in all our years of service and it highlights the need for our city to organize more resources and activate better prevention strategies. More than 2,700 people came to our day centre to look for shelter, protection and basic […]

We ended 2022 having assisted 3,066 homeless people, 22% more people than in 2021, almost the same number prior to the pandemic. Our street team visited 963 rough sleepers and we secured stable housing for 268 people. Download Arrels’ 2022 report here (pdf).             […]

2020 forced us to work from the emergency for the first time and, during 2021, we have returned to our usual way of accompanying people, with more intensity. In total, we attended 2,129 people. We have expanded the street team and started to visit the people who live on the street in all the districts […]

The number of homeless people that we help at Arrels has been increasing recently. Back in 2019, we helped 2,592 people; 10% more than in 2018. The reason? In the city of Barcelona, the numbers go up every year: around 1,200 people are still sleeping rough. Last year, more than a thousand people visited our […]

In 2018, we assisted 2,368 people, some 24% more than in the previous year. We assisted more than a thousand of these people for the first time, and more than 1,900 used the Open Centre’s basic services and guidance. The street team visited 528 people who slept on the street and we secured accommodations for […]

En 2017 hemos atendido a 1.913 personas, un 50% más que hace cinco años, y 673 de ellas han sido atendidas por primera vez. Los equipos de calle han visitado a 428 personas que viven en la calle y hemos ofrecido alojamiento a 248. También hemos organizado un censo de personas que duermen en la calle en Barcelona y hemos abierto dos nuevos recursos de alojamiento de baja exigencia. […]

Most of the people who read this have a key near them, that if forgotten somewhere would generate discomfort. We cannot imagine what it means to end the day and not have this key that opens the door to our home and our personal or family intimacy. This daily action is an unreachable challenge for over 941 people who sleep every night on the street of Barcelona. But the option of having a key is possible if we add an indispensable ingredient: the citizen’s will. […]

Last year, we attended 1.600 homeless people, 17% more people than in 2013; 665 were attended for the first time. We visited 611 people who are living on the street and we offered nearly 95.000 meals and a dignified place to have a shower to 466 people. 48% of the 2014 budget was devoted to housing and in total we offered housing to 231 people. […]

Arrels Foundation Annual Report 2013. We lacked 80.000 euros to guarantee housing and provide more showers. Will you help us? […]

In 2012, Arrels has attended 1.287 people. The majority of them have been living on the street for a long time. […]