8M Award for a residential space for domestic and care workers

The winners have now been announced for the 35th edition of the 8M - Maria Aurèlia Capmany Award, organised this year under the slogan ’24 hours a day, 365 days a year – Let’s democratise care work’. The jury prize went to the residential project Casa Feminista Comunitària de Treballadores de la Llar i les Cures, while the prize from the public went to the Espai Canalla de La Troca: ‘formar-nos demana cures’.

30/06/2021 20:23 h

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The Casa Feminista Comunitària de Treballadores de la Llar i les Cures is an initiative by the Associació Mujeres Migrantes Diversas. The project is a residence for domestic and care workers and has been operating as a pilot since 15 February, promoting a new community model of anti-racist care, with a cross-cutting feminist and emancipating perspective. The jury valued the project as a “transformational project on the multiple dimensions in the realm of care, based on building community through diversity and intersectionality, providing a specific solution to vulnerability and/or the lack of visibility or recognition”.

The Espai Canalla de La Troca: ‘formar-nos demana cures’ is an initiative by the Associació Educativa i Cultural Formes. The project is a childcare space for the under-3s, making it easier for their mothers to attend training offered by the adult community school La Troca, in the Sants neighbourhood. The project is mainly aimed at migrant women with children, the idea being to offer them the possibility of creating a space for socialising with other families, sharing upbringing and childcare and finding a space for schooling and emotional management for them and their families.

The awards are intended to provide support for projects which help towards the recognition of the centrality of care work, through action which leads to the social recognition of care and better conditions relating to it. Similarly, the goal is to support projects which help towards the socialisation of care work outside the family, promoting new models and concepts based around care, or which promote a better balance between paid work and care responsibilities.

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