 | This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. (May 2013) |
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| Founded | December 13, 1938 |
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| Founder | Ramón Serrano Suñer[1] |
| Focus | Blind/visually impaired |
Area served | Spain |
| Website | www.once.es |
The Spanish National Organization of the Blind (Spanish: Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles),[2] commonly known as the ONCE (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈonθe], as in the Spanish word for the number 11), is a Spanish foundation founded on December 13, 1938, to raise funds to provide services for the blind and people with serious visual impairment.
Although it is overseen by a board of patrons made up of representatives from various Spanish ministries, it does enjoy a certain amount of freedom of movement in the day-to-day running of its activities, and its general council is democratically elected from among its members.
As of September 2013, membership of the organization was 71,460 people,[3] of whom 40% were over the age of 65.
Between them, the three pillars of the ONCE—the Directorate-General, the Foundation and CEOSA, ONCE's business corporation—employ over 136,000 staff, of whom 88.5% are people with disabilities.[4]
In September 2013, coinciding with the organization's 75th anniversary, the ONCE was awarded Spain's Premio Príncipe de Asturias for Concord.[3][5]
From 1989 to 2003, ONCE sponsored one of Spain's leading cycling teams.
- ^ (in Spanish) "Los 100 años de Serrano Suñer" El Mundo. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ^ Codina Casals, Benito (February 1995). "Satisfacción en el trabajo de los profesionales de rehabilitación básica y educación de adultos de la Organización Nacional de Ciegos" [Job satisfaction among Spanish National Organization of the Blind mobility and daily living skills instructors and adult educators]. Integración. Revista sobre ceguera y deficiencia visual (in Spanish) (17). Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles: 19–24. ISSN 0214-1892. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
- ^ a b (in Spanish) "La ONCE, premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia" El Mundo. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ (in Spanish) "La ONCE, galardonada con el premio Príncipe de Asturias de la Concordia 2013" RTVE. Retrieved 12 September 2013.
- ^ "The Spanish National Organization for the Blind receives 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Concord" International Disability Alliance. Retrieved 12 September 2013.