Fundación Punjab

About us

The Punjab Foundation is a non-profit-making, public, non-denominational, impartial and totally independent private entity.

Created by means of a public deed in Castellón de la Plana, in the presence of the notary public S. Juan Carlos Millán de Diego in april 9 2002, under the protocol number 790, and enrolled in the Foundations Register under the number 12/0032.

Created in 2002 as a Foundation (Register), we work in order to fully develop the rights of thousands of members of the Roma community and of other culturally different collectives.

Objectives of utmost importance

The priority of the Punjab Foundation is to structure a serie of social and cultural intervention programmes which could defend the rights of the Roma community members and other different cultural groups. These programmes are intended to promote the knowledge and the recognition of the Roma culture and language as the heritage of the Spanish State and the European Union; likewise, they aim to guarantee the right to education, training and work, as well as to promote the right to equal access to social, sanitary and juridical resources.

Fundamental purposes

Within the Punjab Foundation, we consider unacceptable the fact that thousands of members of the Roma community cannot have access in equal conditions to social, cultural, educational, work, juridical and sanitary resources, although they have rights as citizens of the Spanish State.

Being prejudiced against the Roma community, having clichés on each other, racism, the lack of communication and the disagreements are the fundamental causes that explain this situation. As a consequence, the first purpose of the Foundation is to create a social link, of comprehension and mutual respect which could reduce the disadavantages the Roma community suffers from nowadays.

Working group

To know in order to change

The fundamental principle which works in the sociocultural intervention programmes developped by the Punjab Foundation is the rigorous knowledge of the day-to-day of the members of the Roma community through academic research projects with the purpose of developping intervention programmes that would introduce positive changes to their situation.

Technical team

The technical team of the Punjab Foundation has a strong interdisciplinary orientation. It combines different knowledge areas (History, Linguistics, Social Anthropology, Sociology, etc.) to manage to globally understand the problems and to guarantee the effectiveness of the intervention programmes developped by the Foundation.

This team is composed of academic professionals, specialized in applied social sciences.

• Ana Giménez: coordinator of the technical team and teacher in the Department of Sociology at Jaime I University.
• Arco Iris Project: Maria Lara Abad and Ursula Caravaca Ruiz.
• Brujula Project: Mariví Martínez Sancho, psychologist and Celia Viñado Mañes, anthropologist.
• Project Por Derecho (« By Right »): Amparo Felip Fabra, lawyer.
• Domus project: Team of Intercultural Mediators.
• Entreculturas (« Intercultures ») project: Begoña García Pastor, anthropologist, and Jamal Edwin El Mtilli, intercultural mediator.

Employers

Chairman: Enrique Giménez Adell

Vice- chairman: Juan Jarque Jarque

Secretary: Ana Giménez Adelantado

Members: Eduardo Escudero Gabarri  and José Antonio Gimenéz Escudero