BASIDA homes are:
1. Aranjuez (Madrid)
The first rises in 1990 in Aranjuez due to the lack of a social and institutional answer to the HIV carriers because of the lack and the insufficiency of Official Services, of the non-existence of a policy of specific plans to face this problem.
It is placed 47 Km of Madrid.
2. Manzanares (Ciudad Real)
In 1996, BASIDA sets off a new in Manzanares (Ciudad Real). It is expected to alleviate to a certain extent the social problem in which AIDS people are immersed.
It is a property which is located 1 km of Manzanares.
3. Navahondilla (Avila)
The hospital residence BASIDA-Navahondilla starts working in 1997 conceived, as far as function and covering of services, as a hospital of minimum cares of half and long stay.
It is the first of its characteristics in Spain and holds twenty-eight people.
This home is in the city centre of Navahondilla.
This project is carried out in the Home of Navahondilla.
Navahondilla is a town located 70 kms from Madrid, very near the Mountains of Gredos, belonging to Avila (Castille-Leon). It is a natural environment with some tourist highlights, like the "bulls of Guisando", Avila, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, El Tiemblo. Population: 300 inhabitants.
Navahondilla has bus connection to San Martín de Valdeiglesias and the latter, to Madrid.
The three homes develop the following Programmes:

1. Hosting home for HIV-AIDS people
This program tries to offer a fitting place, a warm home and a family for those people of both sexes, drug addicts, HIV-positives, AIDS people, as well as other terminal diseases due to the advanced stage of the disease they have no other alternative than dying in prison, in the hospital or in the street.
Therefore we try:
· Sick people recover their personal worth increasing the level of their own esteeem and valuation.
· To offer the suitable medical and health cares to them for the state of their disease.
To offer, in the cases it is possible, a social reintegration to them with an individualized way of planning that guarantees them the possibility of introducing to the social and labour and familiar environment.

2. Disintoxication centre and program of social action
Rehabilitation centre is used to the living together, provisional accommodation, social attention of drug addicts, whose activity is orientated to the recovery and social reintegration of its users. By means of the different working, cultural, and educative activities we try:
The residents recover their personal worth increasing the level of their own esteem and valuation.
Their rehabilitation and social reintegration.
Getting out of the opiate and psychotropic substances.
The acquisition of some social abilities and of relation by means of a therapy and psychologic.
Medical and health cares with the administration of mentioned treatments and suitable therapy.

3. Information, prevention, and advising
This program tries to provide and diffuse rigorous data which contribute to clarify and demythologise AIDS. In this way, it will be able to undertake a work of direct and efficient prevention to stop the progressive increase of AIDS cases and to avoid the spreading of the disease.
Methodology:
· Talks.
· Lectures.
· Press.
· Participation in radio and in TV.
· Forum and round tables.
Field of performance:
· Secondary Schools and Professional Training.
· Schools. Universities.
· Associations and cultural centres.
· Parishes. Others.

4. Training of voluntary enlistment
The program allows to educate professional and non-professional people so that in an altruist way can fact to all the situations which AIDS and drug addiction set out.
Theoretical courses:
· Psychologic aspects of the volunteer.
· Legal aspects.
· Social aspects of the volunteer.
· Human education.
· Presentation of BASIDA and other associations.
Practical activities:
· Participation in the program "Hosting home for AIDS-HIV people".
· Participation in the program "Centre and Program of Social Action".

5. Social reintegration
This program has as objectives the social insertion and reintegration depending on the cases of those residents who have carried out their disintoxication and rehabilitation program and those who are HIV and AIDS and thanks to the new treatments have their disease by means of:
· Impelling measures which make easy the access to the training and labour integration (course of occupational training,…).
· Developing and supporting institutional and social measures directed to improve the social image of the drug addict.
· Developing and promoting attention to their social needs.
· Intervening in the social and familiar environment of every resident to get the participation and the involvement of your family in this program.
In the last years the fruit of the preceding formative work is collected with the contribution of those people whose have ended the program have incorporated into the cooperative of associated work "Base of Madrid Cooperative".
The volunteer will live in the hosting project and can use all the facilities. They will have to adapt to the rules of the Centre, as well s to meals. They have a room and bathroom which may be shared with another volunteer.

Training and learning opportunities:
There is a coordinator of voluntary enlistment in every hosting home who will be responsible of the attendance and the advice of the volunteers and in this way will be the link between the therapeutical team and the volunteer.
In all moment during the development of the activities and tasks volunteers will be accompanied and supervised by the professionals who are responsible and coordinate the departments, and who will favour the integration of the volunteer in the centre dynamics.
During the stay of the volunteer the Training Course "Attention skills and Relation with AIDS-HIV People and Drug Addicts"will be given, in which the following aspects are tackled:
1. AIDS and Preventive Measures.
2. ABC of the Drugs.
3. Cares of the AIDS-HIV person.
4. Psychology and Relation Skills with HIV-AIDS People.
5. Social Pathology in HIV-AIDS.
6. Social Labour in HIV-AIDS.


It is important to offer to the volunteer who chooses to carry out his/her voluntary action in our association, a basic and specific training which from a formative and interdisciplinary action tackles in a global and integral way the multiple aspects we have to take into account if we want to give a therapeutical and integrating answer at social level to those complex problems.
A 30 hours course of theoretical training which will complement with a practical part cooperating during some hours per day in the different programs and activities which carry out in our projects.
Regarding the learning and the improvement of Spanish the volunteers who participate in the European voluntary enlistment program will receive during the months of voluntary enlistment lessons the coordinator organization manages.

Role of EVS volunteers:
The EVS volunteers give an added value to the voluntary activity of the organisation (all members are volunteers). They provide an intercultural, community dimension.

Activities of volunteers
Volunteers will be able to participate in all activities which develop in professional departments previously mentioned, always taking into account factors such as the characteristics of the volunteer, the previous professional training and the personal preferences; considering these aspects as fundamental to get the volunteer to integrate and to adapt to the dynamics of the hosting home and at the same time he/she gets to get on with the group.
Some of the most frequent activities to be carried out by the volunteers are:
· Attendance to sick people and to those who are in bed.
· Help in the activities of physical rehabilitation and of occupational therapy for their cognitive rehabilitation.
· Participation in workshops (carpentry, gardening, painting…)
· Participation in the educative department: workshop of adult literacy, out-of-school support to children who live in the hosting home.
· Organization of workshops and occupational activities: magazine, theatre, computer science, yoga and relaxation, sport activities,… workshop.
· Organization of workshops and activities of free time (excursions, cultural activities,…)
· Participating with the others volunteers in the daily home activities.


E. Recruitment of volunteers
The life and the developed activity in our entity get thanks to group and team work between volunteers with different dedication.
The characteristics of the volunteers which cooperate in our organization would be:
· People of any sex, coming from different countries in Europe and of any culture, race or religion.
· People with a minimum stage of maturity who are mainly raised awareness and interested in knowing the problems created by the HIV/AIDS and the drug dependences and in sharing some days of experience with these groups, and furthermore, they have a motivation to learn and/or improve the language and to know the Spanish culture.
· People with no required any type of specific training or profession.
· People who are able to assume the fulfilment of the dynamics and of the living together rules (they will not be able to consume drugs, including tobacco and alcohol).

Recruitment process
Will be carried out between sending, coordinating and host organisation. Availability and individual characteristics will be taken into account. The volunteers will read the project carefully and they will be counselled by sending and coordinating organisations so they chose the most adequate project to their motivation and concerns. Volunteers need no specific training in social matters, but they do need to believe in people and their skills, as well as to commit with the activity they will join, as well as willing to work in a team. Listening and understanding are important for us, as well as tolerance and flexibility. This project is to be understood as an exercise of international citizenship far away from paternalistic and/or assistance attitudes.
To guarantee a clear and transparent process, we work with organisations with experience in European Programmes, directly or indirectly and collaborates with those with EVS experience and other YiA Programme actions.

E. Risk prevention, security and protection
Once the volunteers have participated in the training courses established (at arrival and at the end of the project) and given by the given by the NA, as well as after the complementary training given by the involved organisations, in which there is place for debate about solving conflicts, the meaning of crisis and conflicts, how to face them and solve them. Role-playing and intercultural games will be proposed activities.
After our experience, we will provide a mentor in each home who will assist volunteers during the whole project, so they are covered in every moment. The mentors (with a lot of experience with international volunteers) will carry out a weekly evaluation, provide constant support and mentorship and will give the volunteers the possibility of talking about possible problems. The volunteers will never be alone and will always work in a team. We will favour dialogue and feeling at ease. This will mean prevention of possible risks.