la fundación Fundación MAPFRE magazine#41 | December 2017 www.fundacionmapfre.org

The best invested 500 million euros in history

Art ED VAN DER ELSKEN DERAIN, BALTHUS, GIACOMETTI

Road Safety HOW DO OUR YOUNGSTERS DRIVE?

Committed TRAINING THE LEADERS OF THE FUTURE

Health TO HAVE BREAKFAST OR NOT, THAT IS THE QUESTION PREVENTING DIABETES IN THE CANARIES VISITA NUESTRAS EXPOSICIONES VISIT OUR EXHIBITIONS

Ed van der Elsken ED VAN DER ELSKEN ED VAN DER ELSKEN Territorio Yakuza, Kamagasaki, Lugar Location Osaka, 1960 Sala Fundación MAPFRE Fundación MAPFRE Nederlands Fotomuseum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Bárbara Braganza Bárbara Braganza Exhibition Hall Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Bárbara de Braganza, 13. 28004 Madrid Bárbara de Braganza, 13. 28004 Madrid Fechas Dates Desde el 25/01/2018 From 25/01/2018 al 20/05/2018 to 20/05/2018 Horario de visitas Visiting hours http://exposiciones.fundacionmapfre.org/ Lunes de 14:00 a 20:00 h. Monday from 2 pm to 8 pm. vanderelsken Martes a sábado de 10:00 a 20:00 h. Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 8 pm. #expo_vanderelsken Domingos y festivos de 11:00 a 19:00 h. Sunday/holidays from 11 am to 7 pm.

Balthus DERAIN, BALTHUS, GIACOMETTI DERAIN, BALTHUS, GIACOMETTI Les Beaux jours [Los días felices], Lugar Location 1944-1946 Sala Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Paseo de Recoletos 23, 28004 Madrid Paseo de Recoletos 23, 28004 Madrid Institution, Washington Fechas Dates © Hirshhorn Museum and Del 02/02/2018 From 02/02/2018 Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian al 06/05/2018 to 06/05/2018 Institution, Photography by Cathy Carver Horario de visitas Visiting hours © Balthus Lunes de 14:00 a 20:00 h. Monday from 2 pm to 8 pm. Martes a sábado de 10:00 a 20:00 h. Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 8 pm. http://exposiciones.fundacionmapfre.org/ Domingos y festivos de 11:00 a 19:00 h. Sunday/holidays from 11 am to 7 pm. derainbalthusgiacometti Acceso gratuito los lunes Free entry on Mondays #expo_DBG

Le Désespoir [La Desesperación], EL INFIERNO SEGÚN RODIN HELL ACCORDING TO RODIN c. 1881-1885 Lugar Location Musée Rodin, París Sala Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués © agence photographique du musee Rodin - Pauline Hisbacq Nogués Exhibition Hall Diputació, 250. 08007 Barcelona Diputació, 250. 08007 Barcelona Fechas Dates Desde el 11/10/2017 From 11/10/2017 hasta el 21/01/2018 to 21/01/2018 Horario de visitas Visiting hours Lunes: 14:00 a 20:00 h. Monday from 2 pm to 8 pm. http://exposiciones.fundacionmapfre.org/ Martes a sábado: 10:00 a 20:00 h. Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 8 pm. elinfiernosegunrodin Domingos y festivos:11:00 a 19:00 h. Sunday/holidays from 11 am to 7 pm. #infiernoRodin Acceso gratuito los lunes Free entry on Mondays

Joan Miró ESPACIO MIRÓ ESPACIO MIRÓ Oiseaux dans un paysage / Pájaros en un paisaje, 1969-1974 Lugar Location Colección Particular en depósito Sala Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall temporal Paseo de Recoletos 23, 28004 Madrid Paseo de Recoletos 23, 28004 Madrid ©Successió Miró 2017 Exposición Permanente Permanent Exhibition

Horario de visitas Visiting hours Lunes de 14:00 a 20:00 h. Monday from 2 pm to 8 pm. Martes a sábado de 10:00 a 20:00 h. Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 8 pm. Domingos y festivos de 11:00 a 19:00 h. Sunday/holidays from 11 am to 7 pm. https://www.fundacionmapfre.org/ fundacion/es_es/exposiciones/sala- Acceso gratuito con la compra Free access with the purchase recoletos/espacio-miro.jsp de la entrada a las salas Fundación of an entrance ticket to the exhibition #EspacioMiro MAPFRE Recoletos halls of Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos

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Le Penseur, sur élément de chapiteau [The Thinker, on an element of the capital], 1881-1888. Musée Rodin, Paris S.© Photographic Agency of the Musée Rodin - Pauline Hisbacq

Fascination with the body

Fundación MAPFRE is presenting the exhibition Hell According to Rodin in Barcelona, which may be visited through January 21, 2018. This display invites the public to explore the creation of one of the icons of the fin- de-siècle art world: The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin. The sculptor took the Inferno from Divine Comedy as his source of inspiration, but he became increasingly influenced by the ambiguity and sensuality of Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil poems. In the photo we see The Thinker, which represents Minos, the judge, but also Dante meditating upon his own work and, by extension, any creator, even Rodin himself.

la fundación Fundación MAPFRE magazine Chairman of the Editorial Board Antonio Núñez Tovar Director Javier Fernández González Published by MAPFRE Communication Division Editorial & Advertising Dept. Ctra. de Pozuelo 52. 28222 Majadahonda. Madrid. T 915 815 073 . F 915 818 382. [email protected] www.fundacionmapfre.org Distributed by Fundación MAPFRE Marketing Area. Paseo de Recoletos 23. 28004 Madrid T 916 025 221. [email protected] Editorial Production Moonbook S.L. [email protected] Infographics Gorka Sampedro Printed by Edipack Grafico, S.L. Legal Deposit M-26870-2008 ISSN 1888-7813 The publication of this magazine does not necessarily imply agreement by Fundación MAPFRE with the contents of the articles and works therein. The reproduction of articles and news is duly authorized, provided express authorization is sought from the publishers and the source is acknowledged. Cover image socio-educational project run in Brazil by Fundación MAPFRE

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REVIEW OF A DECADE 6 REVIEW OF A DECADE The best invested 500 million euros in history Over the last ten years, Fundación MAPFRE has contributed to improving the lives of more than 100 million people, thanks to countless projects that have helped to significantly change the economic, social and cultural conditions of the most disadvantaged sectors of society. 12 IN FIRST PERSON MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL HEALTH IN SPAIN IN SPAIN We interviewed two leading experts in mental illnesses to discover the current situation regarding mental health in Spain.

ART 20 ART FOR ALL Information on the Fundación MAPFRE exhibitions all over the world.

Jerónimo Saiz, head of Julio Bobes, president of the Psychiatry at the Ramón y Cajal Spanish Society of Psychiatry Hospital (Madrid). 22 ED VAN DER ELSKEN ED VAN DER ELSKEN The exhibition of this Dutch photographer, Ed van der Elsken, can be visited at the Bárbara de Braganza Hall in Madrid from January 25 through May 20, 2018. 30 DERAIN, BALTHUS, GIACOMETTI The exhibition explores the friendship between these three great 20th-century artists. Fundación MAPFRE’s Recoletos Hall, from February 2 through May 6, 2018

38 PROFESSIONALS AND MORE Archduke Maximilian of Austria combines his work for the Recal Foundation with directing a company in the medical sector. Ed van der Elsken, Contact sheet of Vali Myers, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, París, c.1954. Netherlands Photo Museum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Ed van der Elsken estate.

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40 INSURANCE SECRETS PROFESSIONALS AND MORE We analyze the Quintas conscription insurance, which enabled policyholders to avoid military service.

42 RESEARCH Brief, inspiring stories of teams of scientists who, with the aid of the Ignacio H. de Larramendi research grants awarded by Fundación MAPFRE, strive each day to enhance our health, our security and our future. 44 FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE GUANARTEME/HEALTH WATCH Why is kidney damage from diabetes more common in the Canaries than in the rest of Spain? How can we prevent it? ROAD SAFETY

48 HEALTH WATCH BREAKFAST OR NOT, THAT IS THE QUESTION 50 ROAD SAFETY YOUNG PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO SAY NO! TO DANGER The results of the report on young people and driving conducted © Thinkstock by Fundación MAPFRE are encouraging.

COMMITTED COMMITTED 54 THE LEADER WE ALL HAVE INSIDE The Fundación MAPFRE programs in the United States provide underprivileged children with access to education.

58 AND YOU, STUDYING OR WORKING? 60 VOLUNTEERS ON THE GROUND I’M A VOLUNTEER: YOU GROW AS YOU HELP OTHERS Medine Tanrıverdi has been working at MAPFRE SIGORTA for 20 years and is involved in all of Fundación MAPFRE’s solidarity activities.

62 ANOTHER WAY TO HELP Saravia at her graduation. Photo courtesy of the NPH Leadership 64 SEEN ON THE WEB Institute project Learn about all our activities on social media and follow us!

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Overview of the last ten years. The best invested 500 million euros in history TEXT: NURIA DEL OLMO @NURIADELOLMO74

Over the last 10 years, Fundación MAPFRE has contributed to improving the lives of more than 100 million people, thanks to countless projects that have helped to significantly change the economic, social and cultural conditions of the most disadvantaged sectors of society. A decade later, we take stock. We explain the impact of our work on these people and the challenges we face in order to continue being one of the benchmark social institutions.

“Working in a foundation teaches you to be more chances” and improve the quality of life of many generous and more human. It enables you to people, turning their lives around with the outlook of discover firsthand the social drama of many people, a better future. to realize how useful our work is, the importance of Fundación MAPFRE is taking stock of this expressing solidarity.” This is the feeling of Pedro decade’s work and wondering what social footprint Méndez, one of the 90 employees who make up the it has left, and what impact it has had on the 100 Fundación MAPFRE team. His opinion is shared by million people who have received its support, who many other MAPFRE workers and collaborators, have had the chance to get a job, improve their who have participated over the past decade with the training or been able to feel more integrated into utmost enthusiasm and commitment in more than society, as well as those who have greatly enjoyed 3,000 social and cultural projects, all designed to its painting and photography exhibitions. Not improve the world in which we live. forgetting those who, thanks to our prevention Throughout this period, our Foundation has campaigns, are now more aware of the importance allocated 500 million euros to this end. Its budget of road safety education and of incorporating has grown progressively, even during the economic healthy habits for a longer, better life, and those crisis, enabling it to undertake activities in the fields who have had their first volunteering experience, of education, health and culture, among others. The something that has changed the lives of many of overriding goal has always been to assist the most them. On the Fundación MAPFRE website disadvantaged, those with the least resources and – www.fundacionmapfre.org – there is a video opportunities, and often excluded from society. Its offering an overview of what has been achieved in work, as recognized by the people it has benefited the last ten years. There now follows a summary in over 30 countries, has enabled it to offer “second for our readers.

LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 — REVIEW OF A DECADE Fundación MAPFRE as we know it today is the consolidation of the five historical MAPFRE foundations which, ever since 8 the 1970s, have worked in all of these areas

International Education this more difficult. In this regard, our Foundation has facilitated the cooperation This is a key factor for breaking the creation of 2,700 jobs for people This is perhaps our Foundation’s cycle of poverty. For this reason, the with an intellectual disability or most relevant program, both Foundation has endeavored to make mental illness, a chance for these for its international scope and it available to five million youngsters people, who generally suffer from for the number of beneficiaries through the Educa tu Mundo social exclusion and long-term and collaborating institutions. It [Educate Your World] program, unemployment, to prove to society encompasses 830 projects which, an initiative whereby, to date, it that they are just as capable as the over this time, have managed to has trained over 5,000 teachers rest of the population. improve the lives of almost one in values and subjects such as million people, mainly children accident prevention, the promotion and adolescents. Some of the of healthy life habits and financial Painting and figures speak for themselves: education, key if future generations photography each year, over 55,000 children are to know how to deal with the from 23 countries have received common risks to which they are Promoting culture is one of the at least one meal a day, while exposed throughout their lives. most important elements for the over 79,000 have learned how to development of society, and this is stay healthy and have received why our Foundation strives to bring basic health care. Disability it to the largest possible number of people. Over the last decade, We boost the integration and the 12 million people have enjoyed employment of people who, given 300 major painting, sculpture their personal circumstances, find and photography exhibitions.

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Most noteworthy is the success reaped in Brazil, where nearly two million people visited two unique exhibits of Impressionist and Post- Impressionist works.

Target Zero Prevention is fundamental for avoiding accidents and, for this reason, over the past ten years, the Foundation has invested nearly 100 million euros in, among other things, offering 2,800,000 youngsters road safety education. The aim is for pedestrians and cyclists to behave more responsibly and, in the future, be safer drivers. This work is reflected in the statistics. The Youngsters and Road Safety report, presented recently by Fundación MAPFRE, shows a 75 percent reduction in the number of youngster fatalities from road traffice accidents.

Health Promoting mental and physical health, investing in research as a motor of scientific progress, and helping society know about certain conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, and be sensitized to what cardiac arrest. It has also helped disseminate financial knowledge they entail, have been some of the improve the healthy habits of more and, above all, the insurance mainstays of its activity in this than two million children in 15 culture. To this end, it possesses field. Throughout this period, the countries. the most significant center of institution has invested 79 million insurance documentation in euros to boost the development of Spanish in the whole world, which cell therapies, develop applications Insurance for All receives some 300,000 visits to save lives in the sporting arena, each year. It has also provided and draft protocols on what to do Fundación MAPFRE never forgets 22 million euros to carry out in cases of choking, drowning and its roots and is therefore keen to 600 research projects and help

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promote the talent and expertise its employees and their relatives of more than 1,000 professionals in to contribute to a collection, A decade later, the sector. lend a hand in a soup kitchen, Fundación paint a shelter, clean up polluted MAPFRE is beaches, or get some laughs out of Solidarity spirit children hospitalized with serious taking stock and illnesses. These are initiatives wondering what Fundación MAPFRE believes that which, according to all of them, volunteering is an opportunity provide them with a unique form of social footprint to experience and enjoy unique energy and enable them to realize it has left, and moments and demonstrate that, how much a bit of someone’s free if we all did our bit to help those time can mean in the lives of the what impact it has suffering from the greatest most needy. In the last 10 years, had on those 100 inequalities, the world would be a MAPFRE volunteers have helped million people very different place. This is why, for one million underprivileged people years now, it has been encouraging in situations of vulnerability. who have received its support

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Work in which everyone wins 42 years ago MAPFRE created masterpieces of important painters Fundación MAPFRE. Over the following and sculptors, helping to spread basic 20 years, further foundation projects knowledge of financial, insurance were created within the group, up to and complementary social protection a total of five. In 2006 they were all of concepts, and, last but not least, them were consolidated into one single assisting in general to improve the project, with a logical division into quality of life and the promotion of the specialized areas we know today: health matters are all priority tasks in Culture, Prevention and Road Safety, which we are putting all our attention Social Action, Health Promotion, and and endeavor. Each and every one of Social Protection. This new phase has them is a clear example of how we can now completed exactly 10 years, over achieve small advances that translate which time we have invested more into major achievements which than 500 million euros, run thousands have a positive impact on millions of projects and reached millions of of people, through dissemination, beneficiaries. training, prevention and contribution. As a business group, MAPFRE All wonderful words that fall under considers Fundación MAPFRE one of one umbrella term – solidarity. And the mainstays of its social presence solidarity touches all of us who work and commitment. Whether employees in MAPFRE. Thanks to Fundación or collaborators, all of us are proud of MAPFRE, we can be protagonists the important role our Foundation plays and driving forces, boosting this Antonio Huertas, president of Fundación MAPFRE in practically every country where our commitment and effort to help company is operating in the insurance others through the VOLUNTEERING sector. program, promoted jointly by MAPFRE and its Foundation. We have “The foundations Working in insurance is highly committed ourselves to having the have the capacity satisfactory, given that this is best volunteering program in the undoubtedly the economic activity that world, as we want to be the company to be true expresses the greatest solidarity and with the greatest solidarity of all commitment to our society. In each of and Fundación MAPFRE is the best agents of social the activities inherent in the insurance channel for this. activity, we are helping others to transformation” improve their quality of life, protecting We see many examples on a daily them or assisting them to successfully basis of how the foundations have the seeing to it that, at some future time, deal with any contingency. But, in capacity to be true agents of social they may also give back to society what addition, the fact that our Group sets transformation. We form part of a huge we are now doing for them. aside significant budgets and human group of non-profit organizations that resources each year to the activity make a significant contribution toward As a company, we are going to remain of its foundation comprehensively enhancing the well-being of society. committed to ensuring our Foundation ensures our continued commitment But we must feel proud and appreciate keeps helping them and we are and collaboration with the development everything Fundación MAPFRE brings to confident that all of us who work of all the communities in which we are all its spheres of activity and regions in in MAPFRE, as well as proud, feel present. which it operates. passionate about our contribution, in any of the areas available, to help us A great many adverse circumstances Ten years on from the integration of all reach many more people, undertake are currently affecting our society, our activities into one single institution, many more activities, and grow in calling for our decisive support on taking stock of the results we can solidarity and desire to help others. and action. But we are sure that see many figures which, despite their helping disadvantaged people, importance, barely reflect the reality of Many thanks to all of you, employees, mainly children, people with other what has been achieved. Behind every collaborators, and public and private abilities and the unemployed, number there is a person or a family entities that have supported us over preventing traffic accidents and that has benefited from this work. We these last ten years and, don’t forget, those in the home and in companies, help many of them have a better future, we need you for the next hundred years, organizing major displays of the a better job and better education, and at least. We owe it to those in need.

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Mental health in Spain TEXT: NURIA DEL OLMO @NURIADELOLMO74 PHOTOS: MÁXIMO GARCÍA

Over one million people have some severe mental illness in Spain. The psychiatrists estimate that one in every four Spaniards has suffered, is suffering or will suffer from some psychiatric disorder during their lifetime. Depression and anxiety are the most common. Fundación MAPFRE supports various initiatives aimed at improving the lives of people with mental illness. We spoke with two experts in this field. We discussed the current situation, the consequences and the challenges.

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Jerónimo Saiz: “Negative people are selfish and fall ill more”

He is one of the most reputed (Madrid, 1948) in his office, first thing in Jerónimo Saiz, 69, at the entrance to consultation room No. 7 at the Ramón y psychiatrists in Spain and has been the morning, shortly before his patients Cajal Hospital, where he sees patients the Head of Psychiatry at the Ramón arrived to talk about their depression, on two days each week. The head of the Psychiatric Unit and one of the three y Cajal Hospital (Madrid) for 25 years. bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, the most prestigious psychiatrists in Spain, His passion for teaching, clinical fields he knows best. He admits that he he began his professional career at this Madrid hospital more than 30 years ago. practice and research has led to his finds it hard to smile. “All we doctors He will be retiring next year, but will putting off retirement several times have difficult or incurable cases.” continue giving classes at the university. and remaining on the front line. This entails working in the basement of the What does your work entail? Madrid hospital, where each week he This hospital’s catchment population sees approximately 20 people with is over 600,000 people. There’s a lot mental illness, as well as at the Alcalá of work. We come across all kinds de Henares University (Madrid), of mental illnesses, from mild ones where he trains the future generations such as anxiety and stress, which are of this medical specialty, stressing increasingly common, to other more the importance of listening to and severe ones such as schizophrenia, empathizing with patients. bipolar disorder or depression, which is one of the most worrying. We have a He has a soft, calm tone of voice. He hospitalization unit and a day hospital admits that he is accustomed to privacy, where we offer psychoeducation, which behind closed doors. Mental illness in is designed to help families cope with Spain is still a major taboo; mentioning the uncertainty, anger and frustration it is still something that is frowned inherent in living with a mentally ill upon. We interviewed Jerónimo Saiz individual. Our goal is to treat patients

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just like any other sick person, not as for issues that, some years ago, were a potentially unpredictable, violent or not problems. These are due to a highly incurable individual. diverse range of conflicts and maladies related to the workplace, family or What kind of people pass through partner, as well as emerging pathologies your office? such as those related to addictions Many of our patients fall ill in (alcohol and gambling) or eating adolescence, when they are still young. disorders. Psychiatric centers also have This is the case, for example, with no places available. Mental illness is still bipolar disorder, which takes up to not a priority on the political agenda. JERÓNIMO SAIZ ten years to be diagnosed and which This Spanish psychiatrist trained at various health already affects about two percent of We go to the gym a lot, yet pay much centers and international the population. Most of the patients less attention to our mental health. universities, and has been arrive here somewhat wary, some with Are we not aware of its importance? working at the Ramón y Cajal hostility and distrust, but with the need Indeed, mental health is just as Hospital of the University of Madrid for over 20 years. He for advice. Sometimes they come of important as physical health. There’s is currently senior researcher their own volition, but often it is on the no health without mental health. We at the CIBERSAM (Mental insistence of their parents, who also should take care of all the aspects that Health Network Biomedical suffer a great deal. The patients are Research Center) in Madrid have to do with our emotional well- and a member of prestigious aware that something is wrong, but their being, including the concept we have of international scientific disorder often distorts their perception ourselves, as well as our ability to solve associations such as the and hinders their full collaboration. problems and establish high-quality International College of Neuropsychopharmacology and Many will require treatment throughout relationships. In addition, we should not the American Psychological their lives. suffer a difficult situation in silence, nor Association, among others. with a feeling of shame.. It’s important You are of the view that depression He has received numerous to recognize that one is going through a accolades, most noteworthy is a major public health issue rough patch and needs to seek help. being First Prize at the “Juan Without a doubt. This is an illness that is José Barcia Goyanes” Clinical Neuroscience Awards. tremendously incapacitating, produces What improves our mental health? great suffering, has a huge economic Maintaining important, significant impact and, in the most severe cases, can social relationships is essential for even lead to suicide. It’s an overlooked our mental health. We must surround reality. Depression is difficult to detect ourselves with positive people, those and there are many patients who are who enrich our lives. Generosity is never even diagnosed – nor, therefore, another fundamental factor. Empathic treated. people, those willing to share and who show gratitude, are more cheerful and Is there a lack of resources? therefore happier. The opposite occurs Spain has improved greatly in research with negative people, who tend to be and, generally speaking, we have selfish and therefore less healthy, poorer an excellent healthcare network, and more solitary. which, moreover, is public, free and universal, but resources always fall short. The health and social services are increasingly unable to cope with the increasing number of consultations

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Julio Bobes, a 65-year-old Asturian, is the father of six children. He states that, for children to enjoy good mental health, they must live in a loving environment where both the father and the mother devote quality time to dialog with their offspring. Children must also be given the freedom to live out experiences that will help them get to know themselves better.

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Julio Bobes: “Our work often reaches us late. Early diagnosis is essential”

The president of the Spanish Society adequate treatment. What are the of Psychiatry heads an institution challenges ahead? created 17 years ago with the aim The greatest of them is to help prevent of contributing to the scientific mental and behavioral disorders, which advancement of psychiatry and mental often cannot be prevented, but, in other health treatment in Spain. And also cases, early diagnoses can be made and to defend the interests of this medical this is key to ensuring the treatment is as specialty, which currently accounts effective as possible. If we treat a person for six percent of Spain’s healthcare who has been ill for ten years, the results JULIO BOBES budget. This institution is urging that are much poorer. We cannot lose so Senior researcher at the this figure should be 10 percent, as in much time. CIBERSAM (Mental Health other European countries. Network Biomedical Research Another major challenge with Center) in Oviedo, Julio Bobes is currently president mental health sufferers is improving of the Spanish Brain Council, Professor of Psychiatry at the University their quality of life integrated within the European of Oviedo, Julio Bobes (Oviedo, 1952), Things have improved a lot in the Brain Council, among other has just arrived in Madrid, where the past few years and we currently have posts he holds. His activities Spanish Society of Psychiatry, which include training as well as community and mental rehabilitation research and clinical practice. he has presided over for the last three facilities in the hospitals, which will His investigative work lead years, is based. Responsible for mental undoubtedly help us provide ever better him to the treatment of issues health at all the health centers and care. However, much remains to be such us psychotic and affective hospitals in Oviedo, he is clear about disorders, anxiety and suicidal done. A large part of our work reaches behavior. the challenges facing the association: us late. Sometimes because we do not reduce the inequalities in treatment in detect a disorder in time and, on many each Spanish region; enhance child and other occasions, because those affected adolescent psychiatric services; reduce do not visit their family physician, as the incapacity these disorders can cause they are not aware of their illness, and and provide the system with a greater this makes it difficult to help them. number of professionals. You are a staunch proponent of According to the latest figures, over scientific research. Are we on the a million people in Spain suffer right track? from a severe mental illness. Over We’re making progress. We have to half of those needing treatment start from the basic premise that most do not receive it, and a significant funds are earmarked for oncology and percentage do not have access to cardiovascular disease. Neuroscience

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is in third place and currently has a the attitude of society toward the smaller budget than in the 1990s, when mentally ill is not good, and even less giant strides were made in this field. If so at close quarters, which means that there is no firm commitment to research, these individuals are less likely to be scant advances are made. integrated into the system. Fundación The mortality rate among this The families are also victims. MAPFRE group is worrying The families perform authentic miracles opts for less That’s right. The life expectancy of the and sacrifices when it comes to living exclusion, more mentally ill is 20 years less than that of with these people. They often don’t equality any other population group; they die know what the problem is with them, earlier than expected, mainly due to the until someone encourages them to visit For more than a decade, fact that preventive measures are not the family physician. Other times they since 2006, Fundación MAPFRE has been implemented in time and, in general, shut their eyes and wait to see if the conducting innovative their state of health is not monitored. situation improves with time, something programs to improve This is one of the challenges. Family that usually does not occur, because, in the quality of life of physicians should make greater efforts most cases, these individuals usually get people with physical and intellectual disabilities. to treat these people. They should not worse and, as I said earlier, we are late Today, we can proudly leave it all in our hands. on the scene. say that over 200,000 people with disabilities Ten people commit suicide in Do you feel the educational centers and mental illness have Spain every day. These figures are should have greater resources to benefited throughout this dramatic. detect mental illness among their period from our grants and projects, the most Indeed so. We know that nine out of students and know how to deal notable of these being every ten people who take their own life with it? Juntos Somos Capaces each year suffer from a severe mental I believe that’s fundamental. Schools [Together We Can]. In its seven years in existence, illness, such as schizophrenia, or some should pay more attention and teachers this program has enabled bipolar or personality disorder. Also should be better prepared to treat 3,000-plus companies due to an addiction to drugs or alcohol, pupils with disorders, such as ADHD, from all over Spain to which do a lot of damage. In this regard, for example. These children are often collaborate actively by facilitating training and Spain has progressed slowly and this highly intelligent with great potential a transition into the remains an unresolved matter. We and we could thus prevent them having workplace for over 2,400 need the adoption of a National Suicide difficulties in school, so that they can workers with intellectual disabilities. Within this Prevention Plan in order to reverse compete on an equal footing with the framework, the foundation the trend. We have gone from being a other children. This is a task which has also focused on country with a low rate to a medium- calls for the whole school community, their families, the true risk nation, with rates close to nine parents and teachers included, to be protagonists of these people’s development. In percent, which means that suicide is fully engaged. this regard, it supports now the leading cause of death among various activities where In your experience, what leads to a those under the age of 35. they can share information, child developing a mental illness? receive advice and learn Could it be said that mental health When we treat minors, we come up tactics that can help them remains a taboo subject? improve the relationship against real surprises, such as frequent with their family members There is certainly a great social stigma situations of abuse, violence and with disabilities. and many prejudices that lead to cases harassment. All this results in a child More information of rejection and exclusion. In general, not performing well and are decisive as www.fundaciónmapfre.org

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not because they lack the ability, but rather because they spend most of their time obsessed with false ideas from their imagination, or delusional people who believe they are being followed. These are psychotic behaviors and are common in people who use drugs, substances that can eventually trigger a mental illness. Changes for the worse should also serve as warning signs. For example, children who have always performed well academically and, suddenly, do not, or those who stop interacting with their friends. Studying the nervous system also furnishes a lot of information Neuroimaging techniques enable us to recognize the functions of the nervous system. They also help us to detect diseases that have to do with the frame of mind and thought processes. When someone hallucinates, is insane or is apathetic, this is not purely by chance. What habits would you recommend to be happy? The most important thing is to want to be happy and, of course, work on it. It helps a lot to know yourself well, to be aware of what we are like, discuss our problems, smile (this strengthens the immune system) and, most importantly, regards developing a disorder sooner or have a good social network, good later. The family environment is crucial. friends and good companions. With The children, who fortunately tell us respect to work, I’d like to highlight what goes on at home, need a caring the importance of balance. Working environment, where harmony, cordiality in excess is toxic in the long term. and dialog are paramount. They need Achieving work-life balance should not their parents to devote time to them. be an option, but rather an essential At what point should we suspect that element for mental health. something is not going well? What sort of behavior should alert us? The ones we should be most worried about are those kids who, unfortunately, are not able to keep up with their peers,

LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 — In first person According to UNESCO, “Culture forms a fundamental dimension of the development process, and helps to strengthen independence, 20 autonomy and identity...”. Fundación MAPFRE enthusiastically strives to bring art closer to the citizens of the whole world

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Left: Ignacio Zuloaga, Portrait of the Countess Mathieu de Noailles, 1913 Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Inv. 82/50 © ignacio zuloaga, vegap, madrid, 2017 photo: © bilboko arte ederren museoa – Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Right: Nicholas Nixon, Clementine and Bebe, Cambridge 1986 Gelatin silver contact print © nicholas nixon courtesy of fraenkel gallery, san francisco

Madrid. ZULOAGA IN THE PARIS COMING SOON: OF THE BELLE EPOQUE. 1889-1914 ED VAN DER ELSKEN Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Hall 25/01/2018 – 20/05/2018 28/09/2017 – 07/01/2018 Fundación MAPFRE Bárbara de Braganza Hall PERMANENT COLLECTION. ESPACIO MIRÓ DERAIN, BALTHUS, GIACOMETTI Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Hall 02/02/2018 – 06/05/2018 NICHOLAS NIXON Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Hall Fundación MAPFRE Bárbara de Braganza Hall 14/09/2017 – 07/01/2018

Top right: Joan Miró, Peinture (Per a David Fernández Miró) / Painting (For David Fernández Miró), 1965 (close-up). Private Collection on temporary loan © joan ramon bonet. Miró Estate Archive Left: Ed van der Elsken Girl in the Subway, 1984. Netherlands Photo Museum © ed van del elsken / collection stedelijk museum amsterdam Right: André Derain, Young Girl Peeling Fruit, 1938-1939. Collection Allbright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Photography by Biff Heinrich © andré derain, vegap, madrid, 2017 art — LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 21

Barcelona: COMING SOON: HELL ACCORDING TO RODIN BRASSAÏ 11/10/2017 – 21/01/2018 13/02/2018 – 13/05/2018 Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués Hall Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués Hall

Above: Brassaï, Market Porter, Les Halles, 1939 © brassaï estate, paris Left: Auguste Rodin, Le Baiser [The Kiss], 1881-1882 Musée Rodin, París © Photographic Agency of the Musée Rodin - jerome manoukian

Rotterdam BRUCE DAVIDSON Netherlands Photo Museum 16/09/2017 – 07/01/2018

Left: Bruce Davidson Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, 1859 © bruce davidson / magnum photos La Laguna-Tenerife: Right: Manuel Vázquez Díaz, Ramón Gómez de VÁZQUEZ DÍAZ IN THE la Serna, c. 1923 Ink on paper FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS Fundación MAPFRE Collections 16/02/2017 – 20/04/2018

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Ed van der Elsken TEXT: FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE CULTURE AREA

This exhibition of the oeuvre of Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990), which may be visited at the Bárbara de Braganza Hall in Madrid from January 25 through May 20, 2018, presents an ample selection of his most iconic images: snapshots of Paris from the 1950s onward; figures photographed on his many trips or in his hometown of Amsterdam from the 1960s onward; as well as his books and excerpts from his films and slide presentations, especially Eye Love You and Tokyo Symphony.

Recalcitrant, self-aware and lens. A lover of quirky characters enamored by the urban landscape committed. Over more than four and young rebels, he produced a and focused on the street decades, Ed van der Elsken sought kind of chronicle of the zeitgeist, a artists, clochards and beggars, “his people” on the streets of cities journal of the spirit of the age. lovers next to the Seine, street such as Paris, Amsterdam and Van der Elsken worked demonstrations and billboards. Tokyo. He preferred to publish his on a variety of platforms and But his encounter in a nightclub photographs in book format, like experimented with numerous with the redheaded Vali Myers Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint- techniques for the edition and and her friends made him adopt a Germain-des-Prés (1956) — Love layout of his works, creating radically new, personal approach, on the Left Bank in its English publications and films, slide shows which led him to photograph the edition — his internationally and videos. The book dummies, bohemians of Saint-Germain- acclaimed photographic novel; the contact sheets and sketches on des-Prés, mainly at night. The monumental Sweet Life (1966); show offer a better understanding twinkling of the street lamps and or the impressive De ontdekking of his work methods, while the the mirrors of the cafés afforded van Japan (The Discovery of excerpts from his films – in black his velvety black pictures a Japan, 1988). He also captured and white or in color – emphasize special ambience. He captured the world around him with a his importance as a filmmaker embraces, the art of seduction, movie camera. His viewpoint and highlight the relationship loneliness and the intoxication was generally autobiographical, that exists between this practice by alcohol and drugs with a great his attitude direct, his methods and his photography. In this sense of the physical, of plasticity. rather unconventional, and he contemporary visual culture of the There is always little distance often included himself in the selfie and blending of disciplines, between the photographer and his scene. “Heh, gorgeous, look at Ed van der Elsken’s work still characters, giving the impression the camera!” he would shout remains undeniably relevant. that he shoots without them even provocatively from behind the realizing, although he sometimes Paris and Love on the Left obviously gets them to pose. In Ed van der Elsken, Contact sheet of Vali Myers, Bank any case, his approach reflects Saint-Germain-des-Prés, París, c. 1954 Netherlands Photo Museum Ed van der Elsken discovered his a departure from the unwritten © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Ed van der Elsken estate own style in Paris. At first he was rules of the documentary

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Ed van der Elsken, Selfportrait with Ata Kandó, Paris, 1952 Nederlands Fotomuseum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Ed van der Elsken estate based purely on observation, so projects in a Rhodia notebook. At between the Mexican Manuel characteristic of the postwar first he worked with a Rolleiflex (Roberto Inignez-Morelosy) and period. and had to be sparing with Ann (Vali Myers), the reality that At the end of the 1970s, Ed his film; later he used a Leica, Vali recalls proves to be much van der Elsken used his archives which allowed him to reduce rawer and harsher. to produce a photobook on his the distance between himself This book marks a clear Parisian period in the early 1950s. and his subjects. One of his departure from the positive He reminisces about what were favorite themes was his family’s humanist vision of postwar often difficult early days: his work everyday life, which he recorded documentary photography in the laboratory of the Magnum in both spontaneous snapshots and is one of the first signs of agency; his first steps in the and carefully staged scenes, interest in the phenomenon of professional photography world; sometimes literally acted out for youth culture, with its doubts, his life with the photographer Ata the camera. violence and addictions. Van der Kando and her three children; In his 1972 film, Death in Elsken’s viewpoint is that of a his relationship with Dutch the Port Jackson Hotel, Ed van participant: direct and emotional. artists and, of course, the creative der Elsken presents us with the The narrative takes the form of a process that led to his first book, memoires of Vali Myers, his muse lengthy flashback. Een liefdesgeschiedenis in Saint- and the protagonist of his first Germain-des-Prés (Love on the book, the iconic photographic Bagara and Sweet Life Left Bank, 1956). novel Love on the Left Bank. While In the late 1950s, Ed van der Van der Elsken jotted down the book blends fact and fiction to Elsken embarked on his first long ideas and made sketches for his create a story of impossible love journeys. The photographs he

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Ed van der Elsken, Hong Kong, 1959-1960 Leiden University Library. Special Collections

took in Central Africa in 1957- 1958 show him to be a cultural anthropologist in search of an “authentic” culture and, at the same time, an enthusiastic reporter of the vicissitudes of the daily lives of the inhabitants of Ubangi-Shari. Van der Elsken was a master when it came to capturing intense situations related to certain rituals and hunting. Ed van der Elsken and his then wife, Gerda van der Veen, left the Netherlands on August 22, 1959 for a journey that would take them around the world over a period of fourteen months. It was during this time that he defined his personal style and methods. His subjects increasingly became characters with whom he often entered into a highly direct personal relationship. At the invitation of his brother-in-law, who was a district commissioner in Ubangi- Shari, van der Elsken traveled to Central Africa in 1957, just one year before the French colony gained independence. During a three-month stay, van der Elsken captured everyday life in remote villages. He asked children to draw magical characters and rituals – such as circumcision, which he was not allowed to

Ed van der Elsken, Durban, South Africa, 1959 Netherlands Photo Museum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

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Ed van der Elsken, Audience at a Lionel Hampton Big Band concert, at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 1956 Netherlands Photo Museum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Ed van der Elsken estate photograph – and included these via the Philippines. At the end of developed his interest in young pictures in Bagara. The title of November they reached Japan, rebels and atypical characters. He the book means “buffalo”, an where they stayed for three first photographed them in black animal which, for van der Elsken, months. The round-the-world trip and white, but later, beginning in “symbolizes the wildness, cunning ended in Mexico and the United the 1970s, he turned to color. His and life force that is Africa.” States. pictures reflect the atmosphere Bagara sets forth his vision of Sweet Life, which found no of the capital over successive “the true Africa”, as reflected in publisher until 1966, embodied decades. In the 1950s he the title of the German edition, his adventurous spirit, his interest photographed “his” Nieuwmarkt Das echte Afrika; contemporary in humanity, and his fascination neighborhood: a waitress, aspects such as cars and white with foreign cultures. It was a rebellious youngsters, two stylish people are practically nowhere to passenger ship he photographed sisters, a dreamy-eyed girl with be seen. in the Philippine islands that backcombed hair, and children in They covered the costs of their inspired the title of a book that homemade costumes. At this time adventure by making films for was originally going to be called jazz was becoming increasingly television and taking photographs Crazy World. popular. The young people for magazines. The trip began in went insane at Amsterdam’s Senegal and Sierra Leone, from Amsterdam and Jazz Concertgebouw, where they where they continued on to South Ed van der Elsken devoted attended concerts by Miles Davis, Africa. Their next ports of call himself assiduously to street Chet Baker or Ella Fitzgerald, were Malaysia and Singapore, photography in Amsterdam, his among others. Van der Elsken before moving on to Hong Kong, hometown. This was where he found their enthusiasm infectious

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and his camera captured to The Camera in Love around the farm in Edam with his perfection the spontaneity of the In 1970 Ed van der Elsken left family.The fish-eye lens he used to music and the intensity of the Amsterdam to live on a farm record this sequence is one of his audience’s experience. Color took he had purchased near the typical technical jokes. on ever-increasing importance in IJsselmeer lake, in the vicinity In 1971 Ed van der Elsken his photography from the 1970s of Edam. The film De verliefde worked again with Vali Myers, onward, but this barely made him camera (The Camera in Love, 1971) his muse from Love on the Left change his approach. However, focuses mainly on his foreign Bank. In Death in the Port Jackson film began to acquire greater assignments for the magazine Hotel he did a portrait of the artist importance in his work. Avenue. It begins with images who was then living in a secluded In the 1950s jazz was of the photographer capturing Italian valley with her young tremendously popular in the a birth and closes with a recital lover, Gianni Menichetti, and her Netherlands. Ed van der Elsken’s from his Mini Moke while driving animals. journalist friend Jan Vrijman took him to a Chet Baker concert at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the photographer was immediately captivated. The book Jazz (1959) is fruit of the photos he took at jazz concerts, including performances by Miles Davis, Lionel Hampton and Ella Fitzgerald. Van der Elsken himself designed the layout of Jazz, translating the music into images. From 1959 Ed van der Elsken focused increasingly on film. During his round-the-world journey he made brief travelogues for Dutch television which unfortunately have been lost, with the exception of a rushed montage of just a few – often rather formal – clips. For one of his first documentaries, Van der Elsken filmed his friend Karel Appel. He also made experimental short films, such as Handen (Hands, ca. 1960), a montage that shows the different functions and movements of the hands.

Ed van der Elsken, Nieuwmarkt Fair, Amsterdam, 1956 Netherlands Photo Museum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Ed van der Elsken estate

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Avonturen op het land with the more serious issues he actors in a B movie. The (Adventures in the Countryside, dealt with for Avenue during his transsexuals are clearly having 1980) is a tribute to the flora and travels, when he documented fun glancing flirtatiously at the fauna – and to the inhabitants – in color extreme poverty, the photographer. Van der Elsken of the area around his farm in struggle for survival and even made a total of 15 trips to Japan, Edam in each of the seasons. He death. The result is Ed van del whose inhabitants, culture and also published a book with the Elsken’s tribute to mankind, his traditional values and customs same title. own personal Family of Man. he found fascinating. His photographs depict typically Eye Love You Japan Japanese themes such as sumo Eye Love You lists the different During his first visit to Tokyo wrestlers, bowing to greet ways of experiencing and in the late 1950s, Ed van der each other and the incredible practicing love all over the Elsken progressively turned pushing and shoving at train world, a universal theme running into a provocative, playful doors. However, he not only through Ed van der Elsken’s stage director of “his” people. photographed demure customs “people book”. The images The Yakuza — Japanese and polite attitudes, but also of hippies, nudist beaches, gangsters wearing American how consumerism was affecting couples making love and Indian suits — seem to be staring Japan and, yet again, the youth transvestites are in stark contrast straight at the viewer, like culture.

Ed van der Elsken, Luchadores de sumo en campo de entrenamiento, Tokio, 1959 Nederlands Fotomuseum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

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Ed van der Elsken, Yakuza Territory, Kamagasaki, Osaka, 1960 Netherlands Photo Museum © Ed van der Elsken / Collection Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Tokyo Symphony posthumously and shown for the his sadness, fear, pain and For van der Elsken, the slide first time in 2010. anger. He also refers to other show was an inspiring format, photographers, his own work and halfway between a static medium Bye his family, clearly emerging as a such as photography and one Ed van der Elsken’s first witty, spirited character right to that proved so expensive, namely autobiographical film was the very end. filmmaking. He created various 0>Welkom in het leven, lieve audiovisual pieces, some with kleine (Welcome to Life, Dear synchronized sound. In the final Little One). With his last film, stages of his life, he worked on Bye, he bids farewell to life. In an audiovisual presentation it, the photographer is both the about Tokyo, the metropolis with protagonist and cameraman. which he had maintained such a In 1988 he was diagnosed with special bond. He photographed a terminal cancer and decided the fish market, demonstrations, to document how the disease advanced as the world closed in The exhibition has been organized by the Stedelijk attractive people, mannequins, Museum in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the Jeu wrestlers and alternative around him. For him, this was de Paume and Fundación MAPFRE. Our special thanks youngsters. He was unable to the only way to deal with this go to Anneke Hilhorst and Han Hogeland, Netherlands Photo Museum in Rotterdam and the Leiden University complete this project due to experience. Bye is a personal, Library. Special Collections, Eye Film Museum in his health problems. Tokyo intimate self-portrait in which the Amsterdam, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam, and Symphony was completed photographer openly expresses Paradox Edam.

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André Derain, Geneviève à la pomme [Jane Keeping an Apple], circa 1937-1938 Private Collection © Thomas Hennocque © André Derain, VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

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Derain, Balthus, Giacometti TEXT: CULTURE AREA

The Derain, Balthus, Giacometti exhibition, which will be on show at Fundación MAPFRE’s Recoletos Hall from February 2 to May 6, 2018, explores the friendship between three great 20th-century artists: André Derain (1880-1954), Balthus (1908- 2001) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966).

The visions of these three artists, exhibition includes an exceptional Allégret, Boris Kochno, Roger never before contrasted, coincide selection of more than 200 works Blin and Jean-Louis Barrault; in what must be demanded of a (paintings, sculptures, works on they also shared an interest in work of art. The three share a paper and photographs), focusing fashion, working with Jacques powerful yearning for modernity, principally on the period between Doucet, Paul Poiret and Christian yet are passionately interested the 1930s and 1960s. Dior, and in the art market, in painting’s history and the art The three artists met in the collaborating with Pierre Loeb, of distant civilizations. They are early 1930s as they all moved Pierre Colle and Pierre Matisse. fascinated by “the dark forces in Surrealist circles and, more Six sections testify to this of matter” (Derain) and, in specifically, they coincided at exceptional friendship between general, pay close attention to the Balthus’ first exhibition at the the three artists. The exhibition “wonderful, unknown” reality Pierre Loeb gallery in 1934. Their begins with their shared views before their eyes (Giacometti). friendship grew stronger from on the figurative tradition and Far beyond the mutual 1935 onward and their lives and primitivism, from which some admiration and sincere affection works became ever more intensely unique hybridizations arose that bonded them throughout intertwined. Moving between (The Cultural Gaze). It continues their lives, their profound Saint-Germain and Montparnasse, with their landscapes, figures agreement on aesthetic questions they crossed the paths of many and still lifes, which investigate is the common thread running artists, writers and poets: first codes of representation, from through this exhibition. of all Antonin Artaud, but also Neoclassicism through to Corot The exhibition, which was Max Jacob, André Breton, Louis and Courbet (Silent Lives). conceived by the City of Paris Aragon, Jean Cocteau, Pierre There then follow portraits of Museum of Modern Art and Reverdy, Jean Oberlé, Robert the friends and models they co-organized with Fundación Desnos, Albert Camus, Pierre- had in common (The Models). MAPFRE, is curated by Jacqueline Jean Jouve, Samuel Beckett, An Intermission introduces us Munck, head curator at the Jean-Paul Sartre and André into the entertainment world, Paris museum, where its run Malraux. The theater also figured where the painters also become from June 2 to October 29, 2017 prominently and they undertook librettists and set designers. proved hugely successful. The several projects with Marc Giacometti opens up a dreamlike

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world in the section Dreams – Visions of the Unknown, in which Balthus and Derain updated the theme of the sleeping female and reverie, on the frontier between fantasy and actual life. Finally, in The Mark of Darkness, the three artists examine “the possibilities of reality” in contrast to the tragedy of time.

1. The Cultural Gaze Throughout their lives, Derain, Balthus and Giacometti turned their sights on the artistic past. André Derain underwent a major conversion in 1906, when he visited the National Gallery and British Museum in London, discovering with wonderment the works of the “whole world”. From then on, the renewal of his art was based on depicting an authentic multicultural humanism, as revealed by the unpublished hybrid works Le Joueur de cornemuse [The Bagpiper] and the Portrait d’Iturrino [Portrait of Iturrino]. In the case of Alberto Giacometti, his copies of the Italian masters and Egyptian/African statuary fully reflected his way of seeing and transposing those works that impressed him. He also allowed the multiple influences on his sculptures to manifest themselves Alberto Giacometti, Autorretrato, 1920 freely — Femme qui marche Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basilea Foto: Robert Bayer / Beyeler Collection [Woman Walking]. Balthus saw © Succession Alberto Giacometti (Fondation Alberto et Annette to it that the original impact of Giacometti, Paris / ADAGP, Paris) VEGAP, Madrid, 2017 Arezzo, where he copied the frescoes of Piero della Francesca in 1926, resonated in his personal universe. The mysterious “figure” of these compositions,

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the transparency of their colors 3. The Models bears a disturbing resemblance and the timeless quality all A series of reciprocal portraits to the adolescents of Balthus and proclaimed a new credo: “true brings together the friends and the nudes of both — Derain, Nu modernity lies in this reinvention patrons the three artists have au chat [Nude Female Near the of the past.” in common. In 1935, Isabel Cat] and Balthus, Jeune fille à la Rawsthorne posed several times chemise blanche [Young Girl in a 2. Silent Lives for Derain and, from 1936, for White Shirt] — seem to link into When Derain, Balthus Giacometti. La Nièce du peintre a “mysterious tradition” (Antonin and Giacometti examined [The Painter’s Niece] by Derain Artaud). The Nu assis à la draperie landscapes, objects and figures, they intensified their physical presence through the “magic of gravity”. The complete break with reality, an essential element of Giacometti’s art, is reflected in works ranging from Le Lac de Sils [Sils Lake] to Nature morte avec une pomme [Still Life with an Apple]. The artist produces a painting with a highly particular graphic style, fruit of visual examination: “What I strive to do is reproduce on a canvas, or with clay, exactly what I see.” Derain and Balthus remind us of the 17th- century “painters of reality”, with their harmonious arrangement of objects and figures set against dark backgrounds, subtle treatment of light and their precision of execution. In his Vue de Saint-Maximin [View of Saint-Maximin], Derain conveys a melancholic vision of the landscape, revealing a reality “augmented” by his imagination. The Balthus still lifes add a narrative dimension, full of suspense and latent violence.

André Derain, L’Artiste et sa famille [The Artist and His Family], 1920-1921 Private collection © Ted Dillard Photography © André Derain, VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

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Alberto Giacometti, Tête d’Isabel [Isabel’s Head], 1936 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Photo: Lee Stalsworth / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution © Estate of Alberto Giacometti (Alberto & Annette Giacometti Foundation, Paris / ADAGP, Paris) VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

Balthus, Jeune Fille à la chemise blanche [Young Girl in a White Shirt], 1955 Collection of The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation © Collection of The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation - Photo Christopher Burke, NY © Balthus verte [Nude Woman in Front of 4. Intermission the stage (theater and ballet) Green Hanging] by Derain, with From a decade of prolific and the art world. An important its serious, austere simplicity, is theatrical creation, namely the selection of works recalls the set against a plain background. La 1930s, several productions have friendship between Antonin Chambre [The Room] by Balthus been selected for which Derain Artaud, André Derain and turns us into spectators behind was responsible for the sets, Balthus, who created the sets a two-way mirror, watching a costume designs and sometimes and costumes for Les Cenci, the theatrical rehearsal reminiscent of the libretto. This clearly shows first play of Artaud’s “theater childhood role-playing games. the close relationship between of cruelty”. The same sense

Art — LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 Far beyond the mutual admiration and sincere affection that bonded this three artists throughout their lives, their profound agreement on aesthetic questions is the common thread 35 running through this exhibition of chaos reigns in the sets for the Aix-en-Provence Festival. the latter should design the sets this play and for Albert Camus’ On the recommendation of the for Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, a L’État de siège [The State of painter and graphic designer play he directed in 1960. In 1961 Siege] (1948), both the work of Cassandre, Balthus was chosen to he turned to Giacometti for the Balthus. The expressive richness design the sets for Mozart’s Così minimalist set – a solitary tree – of Derain’s carved masks and fan tutte in 1950. The following for Waiting for Godot by Samuel costume masks, some in the year, Cassandre and Edmonde Beckett. studio and others on the stage, Charles-Roux persuaded Derain is reminiscent of the origins to do the set and costume designs 5. Dreams – Visions of the of classical theater, while for L’Enlèvement au sérail. The Unknown Giacometti’s “cages” define the painter returns to Aix in 1953 to The works brought together stage space where the figures are design the sets for The Barber here combine the classic theme to be placed. of Seville by Rossini, his last of the reclining woman with the Theatrical collaborations theatrical production. Jean- reverie theme, in a synthesis of abounded in the 1950s and 1960s, Louis Barrault, a friend of both tradition and modernity. The most noteworthy being those at Derain and Balthus, suggested young girls painted, figures either

Balthus, Costume for Les Cenci, c. 1935 Speck Collection, Cologne © Galerie des Modernes, Paris © Balthus

André Derain, Isabel Lambert, 1934-1939 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Donación de Mrs. James Forrestal © North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh © André Derain, VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

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Balthus, Les Beaux jours [Happy Days], 1944-1946 Oil on canvas, 148 x 199 cm Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington © Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Photography by Cathy Carver © Balthus

Alberto Giacometti, Femme couchée qui rêve [Reclining Woman Who Dreams], 1929 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington Photo: Cathy Carver / Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution © Estate of Alberto Giacometti (Alberto & Annette Giacometti Foundation, Paris / ADAGP, Paris) VEGAP, Madrid, 2017

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Balthus, La Phalène [La falena], 1959-1960 Centre Pompidou - Musée national d’art moderne - Centre de création industrielle, París © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Jacques Faujour/Dist. RMN-GP © Balthus

asleep or dreaming – Derain’s Nu au chat; Balthus’, Jeune fille endormie [Young Girl Asleep] – languid or even ecstatic; Balthus’ Les Beaux Jours [Happy Days] – are indolently subjected to the spectator’s gaze. Inner life is vividly expressed in the dark backgrounds and such remarkable lighting — Derain, Grand nu [Great Nude]; Balthus, Nu couché [Reclining Nude] – which afford an air of confidence to the scenes depicted. In Balthus’ work, the theme of dreams takes reality into the realm of the imagination, whereas, in Giacometti’s work, the ideogram sculpture epitomizes the curves of the female figure and the softness of a barely discovered landscape.

6. The Mark of Darkness The sculptures and paintings on display in this section, with their conflicting influences, offer an insight into the complex relationship between all three – Derain, Balthus and Giacometti to grasp it — Annette assise, deux Bacchanal]. Derain depicted light – and reality. L’Objet invisible fois [Annette Seated, twice]. permeating the darkness — Nature [The Invisible Object] (1934) by From the dawn of creation to morte sur fond noir [Still Life on Giacometti, which signifies a the torments of history, anguish Black Background], La Clairière total vacuum and the inability to and destruction likewise haunt [The Clearing] — as did Balthus grasp what is real, heralded the Derain’s later works: those — Les Poissons rouges [The Red artist’s future conflicts: despite terrified bacchantes striving Fish]. In the end, light prevails in the failures — Tête noire (Tête to escape — Les Bacchantes the works of Balthus, bathed in de Diego) [Black Head (Head of [Orgiastic Women], Grande warm tones —Le Baigneur [The Diego)] — he never ceased striving bacchanale noire [Great Black Bather].

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Maximilian of Habsburg chatting with two youngsters receiving treatment at Recal “Quitting drugs is possible, but it calls for a lifestyle change, incorporating values” TEXT: NURIA DEL OLMO PHOTO: MÁXIMO GARCÍA

A drug problem over 15 years ago led to his creating the Recal Foundation, a nonprofit organization which, to date, has helped more than 1,000 people to overcome their addiction to psychoactive substances and be reintegrated into society. Archduke Maximilian of Austria combines this work with directing a company in the medical sector. His social work fills him with enormous satisfaction.

PROFESSIONALS AND MORE — LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 In Spain, it is estimated that around three million people (between five and ten percent of the population) suffer some addiction to psychoactive substances such as alcohol, cocaine, 39 cannabis and others

Close to 100 people arrive at the center each year. How do you help them? They come from all over Spain, from both modest and They all enter our center for a minimum period of affluent backgrounds. Men and women of all ages with three months. This gives them enough time to undergo a chronic illness in common, which is increasingly detoxification and learn a new lifestyle. And, most frequent and characterized by compulsively seeking importantly, to realize they are not alone in this battle. and consuming substances such as alcohol and drugs. Our method is based on the Minnesota model, which, in Their addiction destroys them and also those around turn, is based on the Alcoholics Anonymous program. them. It leads to family, emotional, legal and financial It is overseen by a medical team working in close conflicts. They arrive at Recal hoping to rebuild their collaboration with therapists who were addicts in the lives and lead a decent life. past and have now fully recovered. We explain to them How did this foundation come about? the importance of their attitude, of constructing a life The foundation was set up in the year 2000 to help project based on goals and challenges. homeless people who were living in the marginalized Drugs leave sequelae neighborhoods of Madrid. For many years we took Without a doubt. That’s why there is a whole team of food and clothing to these people – mostly prostitutes psychologists, doctors and physiotherapists, all helping and alcoholics – until, exactly five years ago now, these people to take care of their diet and to practice we prepared an apartment and a center in Pozuelo sports. As well as manage their emotions and share (Madrid) to professionalize the work we were doing their concerns. They are all continuously monitored, as and start providing therapy. We thus became a a relapse is often just around the corner. treatment center. Do the families also participate? What do you recall from those times? They arrive here in a desperate state, despondent and The work has always been highly satisfactory, yet also disoriented. Our treatment attaches great importance to complex, particularly when it comes to organizing so family therapy, which takes place every week in the center. many people. That is why we decided to set up a new The relatives listen to the experiences of members of the center so as to be able to offer patients a safe home, where we could provide them with food, clothing and, other families and are offered guidance by our team so most importantly, effective treatment to deal with that they can make the changes necessary for a better life their addiction problems. An addict is a mentally ill and relationship with the patient and the disease. individual who needs all the support in the world. What should we do in order to avoid falling into an Who comes to this center? addiction? People of all ages, from every social stratum – and I believe the most important work begins in childhood. even from abroad – who are suffering from addiction Efforts should be made to get the groundwork right. problems, whether due to a substance or behavior- The aim is to establish rules, taking the utmost care related issue. They all believe in our method as it yields to enhance the parent-child affective relationship, results. People with sufficient economic means pay for encouraging communication, self-esteem and self- their treatment, while those who control. These are the values we convey here. We try cannot afford it are treated free to ensure these people have greater of charge. Our mission is to offer Addicts are critical capacity so that they can quality treatment to any person, people who are ill deal with peer pressures and social whether or not they can afford it, and need the full stereotypes, and thus foster their and strive to reduce the stigma that own criteria and be independent person faces daily in society. support of society thinkers.

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Quintas policy, conscription insurance TEXT: ANA SOJO Curator of Fundación MAPFRE’s Insurance Museum

Throughout history, there have been Military service recruitment of selecting by lot every fifth man various ways of recruiting troops to turned to the use of various to serve their military service in fill the ranks of armies everywhere. compulsory conscription systems. the army. Slaves, mercenaries, lords who The Quintas [Fifths] – the type The Cadiz Constitution of 1812 responded to the call of their king of insurance we are discussing established compulsory military with their armed retinue, etc. here – is named thus for the system service for men. Successive laws

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and regulations on the ‘quintas’ enacted throughout the 19th century also made provision for two ways of evading military service: redemption by way of a cash payment or finding a replacement. The replacement option also called for sufficient money to pay the substitute. In both cases, the price was so high that only the wealthiest families could afford it. Both replacement and redemption represented a socially unfair system in which the most affluent had the means necessary to avoid military service; meanwhile the humble had no choice but to comply, with the consequent adverse La Mundial ‘quintas’ insurance policy. Insurance Sociedad de Seguros document Museum. Fundación MAPFRE for military service replacement. Insurance Museum. effect on the family income, given Fundación MAPFRE their absence at a productive age. Another consequence suffered by insurance companies sprang up, The Spanish Law on Military the most needy in society was the engaged – some of them exclusively Recruitment and Replacement indebtedness of families who fell – in offering ‘quintas’ insurance of 1912 abolished the redemption into the hands of usurious lenders. policies, similar to life savings and replacement systems. As a They had to endure disproportionate insurance nowadays. The purpose result, the ‘quintas’ insurance interest rates in an endeavor to was none other than to build up the line disappeared, as did those raise the cash sum needed for the capital necessary for the payment companies whose business was not redemption fee or to pay a substitute. of the redemption fee or to hire a sufficiently diversified. We must remember that, substitute. depending on the historical period, The social discontent generated the compulsory military service by this redemption/replacement Practical lasted between three and eight system came to a head with serious information years, that the mortality rate riots at the port of Barcelona in was rather high, and it deprived 1909. The call-up of some 14,000 on the Insurance families of much needed hands reservists who had already Museum for agricultural work, all within a completed active service triggered Located in Madrid, at Bárbara de largely rural economy with modest the so-called Tragic Week of public Braganza 14, it has 600 pieces on surplus produce. The Spanish disturbances. Once again, they were display and a total of 1,300 preserved population was below the 19 million forced to leave their homes to fight in the institution’s collection. mark according to the INE (Spanish in Morocco, while those able to pay In addition, all of them can be viewed National Statistics Institute) and, in the redemption fee continued with on a virtual tour of the museum at www.museovirtualdelseguro.com. 1900, life expectancy at birth was their lives. These confrontations less than 50 years. were echoed at the main railroad Free guided tours for groups may be reserved in advance by telephoning It is no wonder that, in this stations of other cities such as +34 916 025 221. scenario, a large number of Zaragoza and Madrid.

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Scientists who anticipate the future TEXT: JUAN RAMÓN GÓMEZ PHOTO: THINKSTOCK

The urgent need to optimize resources on a planet where the population and consumption are growing exponentially is driving quite a few scientists to investigate areas such as the quest for new foods. Well aware of these needs, the 2016 Ignacio H. de Larramendi research grants set aside a portion of their resources to projects of this type, without overlooking other projects equally necessary in our daily lives, such as those related to road safety.

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Hidden food sources Dealing with the Supported by Fundación in the sea MAPFRE, the project was Developing new wholesome, production of created to deal with the high healthy, sustainable foodstuffs food in sufficient traffic accident rate in Mexico, may prove critical for the future which, according to Dr. Pérez, of humanity. The Food Research – and, above all, is “the leading cause of death & Innovation group at the Food sustainable – among children aged 5-14, and the Technology Department of the second in the 15-29 age group.” An Polytechnic University of Valencia quantities is one anthropologist with expertise in has been working for some of the greatest non-motorized mobility issues, she time with different ingredients challenges facing began her research into pedestrian they call “superfoods”, such as behavior at crossings in 2014. One quinoa, chia and insect-based our society year later, she was joined by the flour. To overcome the phobias urban planner Jorge Montejano of consumers regarding new and the architect Yazmín products, they integrate them into Martínez complains. “People really Viramontes, and today she has an readily identifiable formats. don’t appreciate what it costs to extensive, multidisciplinary team. In this context, and in view of produce food. We readily spend At present, employing various the increasing use of microalgae in hundreds of euros on technology, methods that include computer diets, they decided to apply them yet count every cent when we programming tasks, they have to products such as doughnuts buy food.” extracted a sample of 500 crossing and other mealy products. Thus points from the databases on began new research supported by Safer crossings for pedestrians people run over in Mexico City. Fundación MAPFRE designed to “Crossing a street represent the Classifying them into three take advantage of “the remarkable greatest obstacle for pedestrians in categories will facilitate the potential and wide variety of the city and is when they are most collection of field data. Several applications these microorganisms at risk of being run over,” explains teams took charge of evaluating may have in such diverse sectors Dr. Ruth Pérez López who, together the crosswalks over seven weeks, as bioenergy, food, pharmaceutical with Jorge Montejano, coordinates starting at the end of July. Fruit and biomedicine,” explains the Jorge L. Tamayo Geography of their work will be the ISCP, professor Javier Martínez Monzó. and Geomatics Research Center. which “aims to become a useful “The potential of microalgae in the For this reason, they proposed instrument for public authorities, human diet was possibly one of the installing “a Pedestrian Crosswalk enabling them to both assess the key factors in warranting this grant, Safety Index (ISCP) score above quality of the pedestrian crosswalks since dealing with the production the intersections of the main and identify aspects of them which of food in sufficient – and, above all, thoroughfares in Mexico, so as should be targeted as a priority.” sustainable – quantities is one of to reduce the accident rate and For 2018, the group expects the greatest challenges facing our improve the conditions for crossing to have achieved the goal of society,” he adds. there.” This index lays down the reducing traffic-related deaths by The group is already testing minimum criteria to be taken 35 percent. several products and it is most into account when designing a likely that some may already be put crosswalk, with a view to ensuring on the market next year, “although, quality pedestrian environments in the food sector, launching a that allow for safe, efficient, new product is not an easy task,” comfortable walking.

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“Diabetes is like Attila, King of the Huns” TEXT: CRISTINA BISBAL PHOTOS: THINKSTOCK

Kidney damage from diabetes is more common in the Canaries than in the rest of Spain. And that is because many of the patients diagnosed with this disease do not realize how important it is to take its possible consequences seriously and strive to prevent them. In the Canaries, Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme finances a project that aims to control diabetes from an early age and improve the quality of life of patients with advanced renal disease.

“Diabetes is like Attila, King of the Huns: where he the support he receives from Fundación MAPFRE passes, the grass will never grow again.” The head of Guanarteme, which has been driving research into the Nephrology Service at the Doctor Negrín University pathologies prevalent in the Canary Islands ever since Hospital of Gran Canaria, José Carlos Rodríguez, uses 1998. In particular, since the year 2012, Rodríguez this curious visual analogy to explain how serious the has been leading a medical research project whose complications may be for those who suffer from this objective is to analyze the situation of patients with metabolic disease and fail to adequately control it. advanced renal disease, as well as what actions may In particular, he cites the following: “It is the leading be taken to enhance their quality of life. The project cause of blindness, amputations of legs and feet, end- focuses to a large degree on diabetes. Rodríguez stage renal disease with dialysis, a high percentage explains the reasons: “Diabetic nephropathy – kidney of ischemic heart diseases, and atherosclerosis damage from diabetes – is more frequent in the problems.” Given the circumstances, you would to think Canaries. Until recently it was believed that this that, on receiving the diagnosis, was due to the fact that, in this anyone would take its possible Uncontrolled region, there were more cases consequences seriously and strive of diabetes than in others. But to prevent them. However, this is diabetes is the now we know that this is not the not always the case. It seems that first cause case. The figures for diabetics, the social status of the patient is of recurrence and prevalence are major importance. Again, we quote of blindness, approximately the same as in the José Carlos Rodríguez: “Diabetes amputations of rest of the country.” What then? is a disease in which social and The peculiarity of the disease in cultural factors play their part.” legs and feet, end- the Canaries is that it degenerates He knows this only too well stage renal disease into more complications than in as he has spent years studying with dialysis, other places. the incidence of this disease in “There are more patients in the the Canaries, where he lives and among other Canaries on dialysis due to diabetes works. And he does so thanks to things than in any other part of Spain.” The

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team led by Rodríguez has sought the generally from a rural environment reason by studying genetic, sociological, and low social status. We have also dietary, nutritional aspects, etc. Among noted the importance of the types the conclusions, one refers to the fact of diet and the inclination toward that “it seems that diabetes starts much fast food: nowadays, making a good earlier among the local population than homemade stew is more complex in the rest of the country. Therefore, and, above all, more expensive than the diabetic patient’s system is more eating a hamburger.” This aspect of exposed to the risks associated with people’s diet has a lot to do with the hyperglycemia than in other areas. We price of items in the shopping cart. could say that diabetes evolves over a It is more expensive to eat well on longer period, with the result that the the islands as many products in the complications are greater.” Simple to primary sector have to be shipped in. José Carlos Rodríguez, head of the understand. With transportation costs, prices go Nephrology Service at the Doctor Negrín University Hospital of Gran Canaria up. Rodríguez feels that there should The importance of good be policies to incentivize home-grown information produce, at the expense of meat, But then another question arises. margarine, butter, whole milk… Why do patients in the Canary Islands From a medical point of view, the start suffering from this disease at a work consists in being able to offer the younger age, especially type 2 diabetes, best treatment to patients right from which is of external origin? Once again primary care onward. But also create Rodríguez replies: “In this regard, we communication campaigns that clearly noted the importance of social and put across the problems stemming from family aspects. Those most affected diabetes. Patients must understand by the complications of diabetes are why it must be controlled from the very outset. “There is a curious lack of awareness, which is even more common in the Canaries than in other parts of Spain, despite historically having a very close relationship with this disease.” For this reason, one fundamental element of the project focuses on the need to produce suitable messages for the population regarding the quality of their food, healthy living and the need for physical exercise, and encourage the practice of self-care. This project fulfills the important task of getting relevant information across, thanks to the Patient Classrooms organized at the hospital, as well as group sessions with an expert patient who has reached the kidney dialysis and/or transplant stage. The latter

FMG/Health Watch — LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 One fundamental element of the project focuses on the need to develop suitable messages for the population regarding the quality of their food, healthy living and the need for physical 47 exercise, and encourage the practice of self-care can explain their firsthand experience and advise other patients how to avoid ending up in this situation. Moreover, it is of vital importance that primary care physicians know how to convey the concern raised by this illness to their patients. “Make them understand that, even if they have the genetic factors that predispose them to develop the disease, they should adopt a proactive attitude to combat these factors. Because, what’s more, we now know that diabetes has a memory. If we don’t start looking after ourselves from the outset, it ends up Grants and awards taking its toll.” The reality is that the program must Support for training has been a grants are designed to deal with this constant in the activity of Fundación and encourage them to further their have worked, given that Rodríguez MAPFRE Guanarteme since its training,” Rodríguez concludes. inception. Proof of this are the himself declares: “I’m seeing small, In addition, this year has also annual specialization grants – each but real, positive data.” However, for seen the first Fundación MAPFRE endowed with 60,000 euros – which Guanarteme Awards handed out to this to work, this cannot be simply a they have started handing out this the most outstanding MIR (Spanish one-off campaign: “There has to be year to medical professionals in the initials of Resident Medical Intern) Canaries, in order to receive training continuity.” In this respect, the renewal in the Canary Island teaching for a year in new techniques or of Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme’s hospitals. Endowed with 2,000 euros procedures which, in the future, will each, the aim is to recognize the support for the project in 2017 benefit the healthcare system in the endeavor, talent and excellence of guarantees its continuity. archipelago. Canary Island professionals in the As well as raising awareness José Carlos Rodríguez, head of the field of medicine. Last May these about diabetes, thanks to this Nephrology Service at the Doctor awards were granted to five newly program a multidisciplinary Chronic Negrín University Hospital of Gran trained specialists attending the Canaria, states that this kind of grant four university hospitals in the Kidney Disease Unit has been set is common in other countries. The archipelago. up for the early care and integrated aim is to detect talent, train them Both initiatives are in addition to the overseas and ensure they return treatment of patients diagnosed with scholarship programs in support afterward: “That the know-how they this condition. The unit consists of training and excellence that the bring back may prove positive for foundation has been running for of separate consulting rooms for our hospitals.” “When our residents several years now. Chronic Kidney Disease (where the finish their specialty, either they get initial assessment of the patient is hired swiftly in their field or they have made), Advanced Chronic Kidney to endure underemployment. These Disease and conservative medical treatment, as well as an innovative the Canaries, having pioneered the area for nephrology nursing. It introduction of such techniques as receives patients discharged from hemodialysis, online hemodiafiltration hospital, as well as those referred from and telemetry for overseeing patients general nephrology consultations and undergoing dialysis at home. specialists (nephrologists) offering The measures adopted have support to primary care facilities. The demonstrated an improvement in Nephrology Service is a true first in survival rates and quality of life.

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To have breakfast or not, that is the question

TEXT: ÓSCAR PICAZO Atherosclerosis Disease” published in DIETITIAN-NUTRITIONIST the journal of the American College FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE ILLUSTRATION: THINKSTOCK of Cardiology. The results are just some of the advances made within the A recent scientific study has analyzed PESA (Progression of Early Subclinical the relationship between breakfast Atherosclerosis) study conducted by and cardiovascular risk. The results Spain’s CNIC (National Cardiovascular of this work have appeared in the Research Center). media, with certain conclusions being This article outlines the association highlighted. However, things are not between different breakfast patterns as simple as they might appear. We are and the condition of the arteries of going to take a detailed look at this to over 4,000 workers at a major bank. see whether, as it states, breakfast is The population was divided into three the most important meal of the day. groups: those taking a high-energy breakfast (which accounts for over 20 No daily intake of food proves as percent of daily calories); a low-energy controversial as breakfast. A recent study breakfast (intake of 5-20 percent of would appear to have settled once and calories) and those skipping breakfast for all the question of whether or not (less than 5 percent of daily calories). skipping the first meal of the day is to be The results indicate that 75 percent recommended. of those who skip breakfast had Specifically, we are referring to generalized atherosclerosis, compared ACCESS THE REPORTS IN OUR DIGITAL EDITION “The Importance of Breakfast in with 57 percent in the group that has

Health Watch — LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 Skipping breakfast is associated with the most dangerous factors for our health: overweight, smoking, alcohol and hypertension 49 a hearty breakfast. But there is one by Hall, Rosbash and Young warranted 75 percent important caveat: association does not their recently receiving the Nobel Prize imply causation. in Medicine. The fact is that research of those who To understand this better, we must seems to indicate that breaking the skipped analyze the type of study we are talking overnight fast could enhance hormonal about here. It is of a cross-sectional control during the rest of the day. breakfast nature and takes a “snapshot” of the In any case, worrying about whether had atheros- population analyzed at a given moment in or not we eat breakfast makes little time. The subjects were asked about their sense if we smoke, drink alcohol clerosis, nutritional habits and were tested using frequently, are physically inactive, stick compared to ultrasound equipment to see whether or to a poor diet, or sleep little and poorly. 57 percent not plaques were present in their arteries. Meanwhile, science will keep making This enabled a statistical association to be advances, but we should focus on of those established between skipping breakfast improving our lifestyle habits day by day. who did eat and the prevalence of atherosclerosis. And remember: we must not solely heed But this does not mean that the cause is the headlines, as association does not breakfast necessarily skipping breakfast. always imply causation. Although this may seem surprising, we must bear in mind what, in epidemiology, are called “confounding Spurious correlations factors”. It is known that skipping breakfast is often a sign of unhealthy There sometimes appears to be the media. Among others, Vigen has a clear relationship between two found the following associations: habits. In fact, this study revealed that, facts, which can even be represented • Per capita consumption of among the group that skipped breakfast, graphically and evolve in parallel over margarine and divorce rate. time. However, we may be dealing there was greater prevalence of obesity, • Per capita consumption of with what is called a “spurious hypertension, consumption of alcohol mozzarella cheese and civil correlation”, in other words a mere engineering doctorates. and tobacco, or red meat, all factors coincidence. Tyler Vigen, a Law • Per capita consumption of chicken associated with cardiovascular disease. student at Harvard University, has and U.S. crude oil imports. created a website with a compilation Moreover, omitting breakfast may also • People drowned in pools and of the weirdest and funniest be associated with a lack of time and Nicolas Cage movies. statistical coincidences. According • Per capita cheese consumption stress, or a lack of sleep. to the author, the aim is to highlight and people who died tangled in their the inappropriate use of statistics in In addition, the causal link between bedsheets. skipping breakfast and being at greater risk of atherosclerosis is not immediate. Divorce rate in Maine correlates with per capita consumption of margarine On the contrary, it might be felt that Correlation: 99.26% (r=0.992558) skipping a meal would reduce the daily 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Margarine consumed caloric intake and, thus, overweight 4.95 per 1,000 3.6 Kg. issues. However, other studies have not found differences in body weight 4.62 per 1,000 2.7 Kg. between those who eat breakfast and those who do not. 4.29 per 1,000 1.8 Kg.

The answer might lie in the in Maine rate Divorce circadian rhythms, those hormonal 3.96 per 1,000 0.9 Kg. cycles linked to our internal clock which Divorce rate in Maine Margarine consumed controls day and night. Their discovery Data sources: National Vital Statistics Reports and U.S. Department of Agriculture

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Young people are starting to say NO! to danger TEXT: NURIA DEL OLMO @NURIADELOLMO74

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Young drivers are calling for greater sanctions for drug use and a zero blood alcohol level. This is one conclusion drawn from Fundación MAPFRE’s latest road safety report, which highlights the significant reduction achieved in Spain over the last decade as regards fatalities in traffic accidents among drivers aged 16 to 29.

Spanish drivers between the ages 1,000 young people from Latin associated with driving, the of 16 and 29 account for the most America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, study also shows that, in general, significant reduction (75 percent) Colombia, Mexico and Peru), this population group drives in the number of deaths caused so that its results are equally smaller vehicles, which tend to be by traffic accidents over the last useful in that region. In fact, older and fitted with less safety 10 years. The figures, while still the study was also presented in equipment. It also highlights the troubling, are clearly positive: Colombia last October in front fact that using the family’s second six percent of young car drivers of the Colombian and Bogotá or third vehicle and frequently have been involved in an accident traffic and education authorities riding motorcycles (with less involving victims in the past three and, in November, in Buenos active and passive protection) years. Road safety campaigns, Aires before the National Road makes them more vulnerable in lower mobility rates and greater Safety Agency of Argentina. In the event of an accident. awareness of the risks at the Spain, presentations were held In this regard, the report wheel are just some of the factors simultaneously in Madrid and Las underscores the fact that the that have had a direct bearing on Palmas de Gran Canaria. greater their social activity, the youngsters currently being safer Conducted with the aim more likely it is that youngsters drivers than those of exactly a of analyzing in a detailed, will be exposed to alcohol and drug decade ago. quantifiable manner the opinions use, and, as a result, the greater This is reflected in the report and perceptions of 2,000 young their fatigue level behind the Youngsters and Road Safety, which people regarding the risks wheel. It warns about their lack of contains encouraging data such experience, which means that they as the fact that seven of every ten have greater difficulty anticipating

young people feel they are “good and reacting to hazards, and that,

drivers” and that most of them generally speaking, they have less

are aware that the most frequent expertise when it comes to driving

risks of accidents include the safely when faced with certain

consumption of alcohol (92 percent weather conditions and situations

underscore it) and drugs (87 on the road.

percent), as well as exceeding the “These are relevant factors on

speed limit (85 percent), driving which we must continue working,”

when tired (74 percent), and using says Jesús Monclús, Fundación

a cell phone (70 percent). MAPFRE’s Prevention and Road

Safety manager, who believes

Small cars over 10 years old that “much remains to be done This study not only included to reduce to zero the deaths of young Spaniards, but also around Cover of the report Youngsters and Road Safety young drivers and pedestrians.

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To which strategies and prevention campaigns he messages get through but do they resonate? are they more receptive?

Those explaining the harm They know what the risks are, but… you can cause other people. 73%

93% 38% Those offering more – and 60% better – information. have not worn a of drivers have driven seat belt on some while under the effects Those reminding you how occasion. of alcohol. much your family worries. 59%

Those stressing the suffering 68% 32% you could cause your child. 59% have ridden a of drivers have not motorcycle without worn their seat belt Those triggering a fear of a helmet on some while driving on urban having an accident. 57% occasion. streets. Those appealing to the responsibility of drivers. 56% 62% 26% have been a passenger in a vehicle whose of drivers admit None of the above. 1% driver had drunk having run a yellow alcohol. light.

42% 22% of drivers have had have been a passenger children in their car in a vehicle whose who were not using driver had smoked restraint systems. cannabis.

39% 21% of motorcycle riders have driven while admit having ridden under the effects while tired. of medication.

In Spain over 400 young people admit having been a passenger the need for concrete measures aged 15 to 29 die each year, which in a vehicle whose driver had such as promoting accompanied means that, on average, more drunk alcohol, and that two out of driving, strengthening the systems than one youngster is killed on every ten have been a passenger for progressive access to a full Spanish roads every day – truly in a car whose driver had smoked driving license, “for young people intolerable.” This road safety cannabis. to gradually acquire greater expert also stressed the “need to During the presentation of the experience in safer driving continue promoting road safety study, Jesús Monclús defended conditions; for example, they training from the earliest stages should particularly avoid driving at of education, as they are key to night and with other youngsters in avoiding frequent, dangerous the car”. The blood alcohol limits habits, when they are passengers 88% should also be lower for all drivers, too.” In fact, on this very question, OF YOUNG PEOPLE REVEAL A but most especially for novices. the report highlights the fact that “Young people are aware of the nine of every ten young people “HIGH” OR “FAIRLY HIGH” LEVEL risks, but, even so, they believe they have “at some time” ridden in a OF CONCERN WITH REGARD TO are inevitable. We must therefore car without fastening the safety convince them that they must say TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS belt, that over half (62 percent) ‘no’ to danger.”

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Fewer motorcycles Alcolocks and speed limiters

86 percent of motorcycle The most useful injury- equipment, not using a ten vote in favor of the riders agree that they should prevention strategies, protective helmet and use of alcolock systems use bicycles more and reduce in the opinion of the restraint systems such — devices that block motorcycle use (66 percent) youngsters, are: increase as seat belts or child the vehicle’s ignition with the aim of reducing checkpoints on the public safety seats, as well as if the driver is drunk, environmental pollution. The highways (speed and exceeding speed limits. “black boxes” to identify same percentage also advocates alcohol, among others); Young drivers are also in the causes of accidents more days with motor vehicle promote education in the favor of taking advantage (88 percent), and speed bans and greater use of public classroom and stiffen of the latest technologies limiters (81 percent). transport (51 percent). the penalties for driving to increase their safety under the influence of and that of the other alcohol, using a cell occupants. In this regard, phone without hands-free more than nine of every

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Latin America Your life can change in a second in figures Campaigns such as those general public the most. of the family (parents, While 69 percent of residents in launched recently by 73 percent of young partners, siblings) and Spain move around on foot on a the DGT (Spanish traffic people indicate that the friends when they lose daily basis, in Latin America this authority), in which most effective road safety a loved one, and which figure barely reaches 45 percent, people directly affected campaigns are those appeal to drivers’ sense of perhaps justified by the fact that by an accident relate their which explain the damage social responsibility. the majority, seven of every ten, experiences, are, in the that can be done to other feel that the roads are ‘not very’ opinion of the youngsters, people, which stress the or ‘not at all’ safe. those which impact the concern and suffering

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Saravia at her graduation. Photo courtesy of the NPH Leadership Institute project

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The leader we all have inside TEXT: RAQUEL VIDALES

Farid, from Honduras. Yomara, from Nicaragua. Darich, from Nicaragua. Darlyn, from Guatemala. María, from Honduras. Ever, from Bolivia. These are the six young orphans who, throughout this course year, will benefit from one of the international programs supported by Fundación MAPFRE in the United States: the NPH Leadership Institute project.

Who still thinks that an also celebrating their successes. authority. That is not how we underprivileged child cannot go We work on self-awareness, understand it; on the contrary, we on to become a leader capable of communication, social skills and view leadership as providing a changing the world? Each year leadership. I admire the courage service. For us, a leader is a flexible, disadvantaged students from Latin and audacity of the students on responsible, compassionate person, America and the Caribbean have examining their past, discussing capable of promoting changes the chance to improve their English their present and imagining what that help improve life within and develop their leadership skills. they might be capable of doing in their communities,” explains the Fundación MAPFRE supports a the future as leaders,” the program director. number of programs in the United director, Jacqueline Shrader, States which show that education explains in her blog. “It must be Leadership, justice and freedom is key to reversing the effects of said that, all too often, leadership The graduation ceremony for poverty. Over a ten-month period is associated with prestige and the six youngsters who benefited these youngsters study English in from the program this past year Seattle, living with host families to “We view leadership was held at the end of June. ensure a full cultural immersion Their final speeches at this event experience. But, in addition, they as providing a servi- demonstrated the tremendous attend leadership seminars, meet ce. For us, a leader impact their stay in Seattle had had mentors, visit firms and perform on their lives. “I’ve come a long community work so that, once they is a flexible, respon- way to reach this place, somewhere are back in their own countries, sible, compassiona- I couldn’t even have imagined they can be better prepared and te person, capable being prior to this program and offer this talent to their community. where I’ve learned that I can “This program is an of promoting chan- become the best version of myself. invitation to grow personally ges that help impro- I can proudly say that I’m now able and professionally. Our students to identify who I am, as a human spend a lot of time pondering ve life within their being and as a leader. I can now the challenges we set them, but communities” be sure that I’m on the right path

LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 — COMMITTED “I can proudly say that I’m now able to identify who I am, as a human being and as a leader. I can now be sure that I’m on the 56 right path to becoming the man I’ve always dreamed of”

reater poverty worse education In the United States, over 16 million children grow up in poverty. How does this affect their education? 1 Children in conditions of extreme poverty are twice as School grades likely to fail to graduate from 2 high school.

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At the age of nine, low-income pupils already lag behind their 10 peers from higher-income families in reading and math, By the age of 13, And ten times more likely to fail to graduate from specifically by one and a half this gap rises to university, compared to students from more years. nearly three years. affluent backgrounds.

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to becoming the man I’ve always I’m studying Psychology and one parish priest in a rather poor dreamed of,” declared an emotional day maybe I’ll open my own clinic neighborhood. One day, the police Samuel, from Haiti, during his to help people with problems. arrested a minor for stealing from intervention. It’s most important never to lose the church’s poor box, but Father Saravia, from Honduras, sight of this philosophy – to be a Wasson refused to file charges spoke of leadership, justice and productive member of society.” against the boy; on the contrary, he freedom: “For me leadership asked for custody of the boy and means something more than Access to quality education the judge agreed to this. A week heading a group or having control. The NPH Leadership Institute later, the same judge sent him a I firmly believe that a good leader program has been run since 2011 by further eight homeless children to is someone who is able to put the Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos take care of. By the end of the year, themselves in other people’s shoes. organization, an international non- 32 children were already living Someone who strives to reap profit organization that provides with him. benefit for the whole group, not housing, education, health care and Thus NPH (Our Little Brothers just for themselves. That is the kind a family for vulnerable children in and Sisters) was born. Since then, of leader I want to be. My time in Latin America and the Caribbean. close to 20,000 children have Seattle has also taught me how to It was founded in 1954 by an been raised with the help of this fight for equality, social justice and American, Father William Wasson, organization, which now runs freedom of expression.” And David, following an episode which was shelters for vulnerable kids in from Guatemala, spoke of his to mark his life and, in the future, nine countries: Mexico, Honduras, plans for the future: “I’m looking that of thousands of disadvantaged Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El forward to returning home and children. It occurred in Cuernavaca Salvador, Dominican Republic, Peru continuing my studies at university. (Mexico), where he was the and Bolivia. Around 1970 Father

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Wasson launched a program so that the most promising youngsters who had grown up under his protection could learn English and have the chance to study and become role models for the other children who were growing up with them. The participants on the leadership program in Seattle are now chosen on this basis. This is not the only leadership development program that is supported with funds provided by Fundación MAPFRE in the United States. It recently signed another agreement with the Teach for María, from Honduras, one of the beneficiaries of the program. Photo courtesy of the NPH Leadership Institute project America organization to finance the training of 10 new teachers for 625 children from low-income Yes, we can communities in the city of Boston Elisa Villanueva Beard racism, xenophobia and colored students could (Massachusetts). This means became a Teach For inequality. So this is really be as good as the that these new teachers must America teacher in much more than just an white students in the be prepared not only to convey Phoenix in 1998. Two educational program. school. Nowadays, that years later she met It’s a program to change is no longer a legitimate academic knowledge to their her future husband, the world,” said Ms. question. We know they students, but also to help them Jeremy Beard, who also Villanueva Beard in her can. Of course they can. improve their living conditions taught at a high school welcome address to the We can point to hundreds associated with the new teachers last year. of schools in urban through education. And, of course, organization. Almost “Eighteen years ago, and rural areas of the to open up to them the chance to two decades later, she when I started at Teach United States proving it access higher education. has become CEO of the for America, the people every day,” her speech This project is having a huge organization and both were still arguing about continued. “Today, we are still fighting for what whether or not it was reject the world as impact on society, as it enables brought them together possible for children it is and we commit disadvantaged children to benefit – to build a better growing up in low- ourselves to making from top-quality education. Since world for their children. income communities to it as it should be,” the its creation in 1990, Teach for “When we work for reach the same level as organization’s CEO educational equality, we their better-off peers. concluded in emotional America has been convincing are working to change There were still people fashion. graduates and outstanding reality. We are fighting wondering whether it professionals to commit against segregation, was possible, whether themselves for an initial period of two years to teach in schools disadvantaged areas and governed of Webster and Dudley and is a kind in low-income neighborhoods above all else by a key precept: of support network that underpins in order to combat educational education can change lives. 17 local health and humanitarian inequality in the United States. In the Massachusetts area there organizations working directly with To do so, the future teachers is another organization that also more than 7,000 people at risk of complete a specific training course, receives funding from Fundación social exclusion in the localities of designed especially for schools in MAPFRE. It is called the United Way Webster and Dudley.

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What about you… studying or working?

THE “EMPLOYMENT GRANTS” PROGRAM

The Employment Grants program has been run GRANTS AWARDED OVER THESE annually in Spain since 2013. FIVE YEARS Despite not having made any investment in marketing campaigns, the success 2376 of this initiative has been remarkable. Spreading the word has solely been on the basis of meetings with business associations (CEPYME) to present the Social Employment Program to them. 600 In this fifth edition, 500 grants were on offer, GRANTS AWARDED THIS YEAR although 100 more were awarded due to the huge demand encountered.

HIRING BY AGE HIRING BY GENDER HIRING BY DURATION

41% 19 – 30 65% + 40% Over 50 Females Permanent 4910% +1041Y 35+65Y 42+58Y Each of the grants, with a duration OBJECTIVE: PROMOTE EMPLOYMENT THROUGH of nine months, are for a maximum SUPPORT TO SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED amount of €500 each month for full- ENTERPRISES, THE SELF-EMPLOYED, AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS WHO NEED TO HIRE WORKERS, YET time contracts, and €300 each month LACK THE RESOURCES TO DO SO. for half-day contracts.

Valencia Banking, insurance and THE MOST SUCCESSFUL REGION IN THIS EDITION self-employed THE SECTORS THAT HIRED THE MOST PEOPLE

COMMITTED — LA FUNDACIÓN MAGAZINE#41 Despite the fact that access to employment sometimes seems an impossible goal, there are initiatives to help us achieve this, either in the form of direct aid or boosting our training. The Fundación MAPFRE employment 59 grants and Discover VT programs are two examples.

“DISCOVER VT” PROJECT

According to 2016 data from the ANAC OBJECTIVE: FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE AND THE Employment Observatory, the vast ATRESMEDIA FOUNDATION WISH TO INFORM AS majority of companies still opt for MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE OF THE BENEFITS AND students with Vocational Training (25 OPPORTUNITIES A VT QUALIFICATION CAN OPEN UP TO percent), compared to 15.4 percent of THEM, BOOST THIS SPECIFIC FORM OF EDUCATION AND HELP ENHANCE ITS QUALITY, AS WELL AS FURTHERING job offers calling for higher education. THE EMPLOYABILITY OF SPANISH YOUNGSTERS. Despite this, many young people are still unaware of the options offered by Vocational Training. Why other students

GROWTH IN STUDENTS ENROLLED IN VT opted for VT?

2006–07 453,543 “There’s a broader range of courses 2011–12 615,079 on offer” 2016–17 793,499 ADONAY LÓPEZ “It combines theory and practice” THE REGIONS IN WHICH MORE STUDENTS SERGI PEREA TAKE VT COURSES ARE: “You have more career openings” YAIZA ANCORIMI

ANDALUSIA 140,331 “Large companies call for technical CATALONIA 131,304 VT qualifications” VALENCIA 95,112 IVÁN CASTILLO MADRID, 89,143 31+292119A “It gives you the experience you need for work” XAVIER LLIVERIA The “Discover VT” Project focuses on spreading the word about Vocational “There are courses that Training through two kinds of actions: are only offered through VT” dissemination and communication NOEMÍ activities, and classroom activities. Visit our digital edition for further information.

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I’m a Volunteer: you reap as you sow

TEXT AND PHOTOS: MEDINE TANRIVERDI

Medine Tanrıverdi has been working at MAPFRE Turkey for 20 years, and since 2011, when the Volunteering Program was initiated, she has been working tirelessly to support all of its activities. So much so that she leads the way for her department in various donation campaigns, boosting the end result with her own individual efforts. Being a volunteer is a fundamental part of Medine’s life. She and her sister, who often lends her support during social events, conquer the hearts of children and the elderly alike with their unbridled, heartfelt compassion. Medine really has a lot of love to give. We’ll let Medine tell the rest of the story herself...

Picnic with children in need of protection “In the hopes of reaching the moon In the 21st century, with nature under (Koruncuk) men fail to see the flowers that attack from humankind and whole blossom at their feet.” species facing extinction, it is our duty Albert Scheweitzer as responsible human beings to protect the ecosystem around us.

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In today’s big cities, people are During our visits to the Foundation constantly on the go, trying to tick myriad for Children in Need of Protection items off their endless to-do lists. We (Koruncuk) and the Kasev Nursing postpone many of our plans, pushing Home I’ve noticed that all the elderly them back to the weekend, or when residents or orphans wanted from us we take our annual leave, or even until was a little bit of unconditional love. The retirement. And then we wake up one moments that affect me the most during day and realize that life has passed us those visits are when I see the happiness by. But life is the greatest gift given to on the faces of the elderly residents who us. Though at times we cannot recognize equate love with being remembered, the value of life, I think we should at least and when I see a sparkle in the eyes of a try to be deserving of it. Depending on child yearning for love and compassion. our standpoint, stories and events change As someone who dislikes and take on new meaning. When I look at wastefulness, I find it gratifying to see life from the perspective of a volunteer, unwanted items destined for the scrap my whole outlook changes, and I want heap given to those in need. This curbs to reach out to even more people, learn excessive consumption and makes more about them, and try harder to find a people aware of how much use others sense of solidarity with them. can get from things that may have I am often reminded of the old saying outlived their useful lives for us. “You reap what you sow”. And so it is My family has seen the positive with life: whatever you do comes back change volunteering has had on me, and to you full circle. Give to others and they they support me 100% in everything will give to you in return. That’s what I do, especially my sister Canan, who happiness is all about. Somebody with often comes along with me on our a healthy degree of self-love is at peace, various outings. It’s wonderful to see loves the people around them and is her experience the same sense of the willing to help others. satisfaction and joy that my colleagues It falls upon us as parents and adults and I get from helping others. to guide our young people in the right Being part of the Volunteering direction and create a sense of awareness program makes me feel as good as those in them. Being part of the I’m a Volunteer who are on the receiving end of our Concert with sign language on behalf program has shown me that life is all activities. of hearing impaired people, picnic about flourishing - flourishing as you share To make a long story short: if you with children in need of protection (Koruncuk) and garbage collection and sharing even more as you flourish. want to be happy, just spread the love. activity

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Another Way to Help TEXT: ESTHER SILVÁN

From teenage fan phenomenon to feminist icon

It is common for many young – To enter the group you just need to The last time, she distributed and some not so young – people have an account on Goodreads, the 100 copies of Mom & Me & to grow fond of the actors who book discovery social network. The Mom, an autobiography by the play their favorite characters, English actress explains that this American woman Maya Angelou, especially when they form part of initiative arose after being named at various locations on the London such remarkable phenomena as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador: Underground. Can you imagine the Harry Potter series. Luckily for “I want to share everything I’m going to work and finding a book her followers, Hermione Granger learning and also to hear what you with a note inside? This states the is strongly reflected in real life by think.” It is a very straightforward sole condition: that, when you have the actress who interpreted the system: each month, a book is finished reading it, you should leave part, at least as regards her love of selected for reading and everyone it in the subway again for someone books. More than a year ago, Emma can then discuss it during the last else to find. Watson launched Our Shared Shelf, week. We have also seen Emma More information at: a reading club open to the whole Watson hiding books around the www.goodreads.com world, whose common thread is subway system, as part of the the feminist theme of the books. project Books on the Underground.

Twitter Emma Watson

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Gathering of artists for a good cause

17 years ago María Entrecanales launched biannual photography auction to raise funds an initiative to help a few children at risk for the support of children at risk of social of social exclusion. Today Balia Foundation exclusion. helps more than 5,000 youngsters in Spain The latest edition of this auction in support and has over 120 workers and 330 volunteers. of children in need was held on October 9 Under the title “Photographers with the at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. The Children”, the foundation organizes a event consisted of a total of 20 works donated by winners of Spain’s National Photography Prize, such as Joan Fontcuberta, Chema Madoz, Alberto García-Alix and Isabel Muñoz, among others. The idea is to offer low starting prices to make the auction attractive, with all money raised being allocated to vocational training, school tutoring, sports projects, etc. In this third edition, moreover, a very special piece was auctioned off. The subject? There still is none. Alberto García- Alix will portray the person who made the highest bid for this work. Further information at: https://fundacionbalia.org/subasta.html Balia Foundation

The sacred cat of the Andes

The use of wild animals in religious rituals forms through community participation, conservation and part of the ancestral culture of the Andean peoples research initiatives. of Quechua, Atacama and Aymara origin. In Among the greatest threats for the survival of this particular, for these people, the Andean cat species is hunting, both of the Andean cat is a symbol of fertility and protection, and itself and the prey on which it feeds. AGA is closely linked to the so-called spirits also combats inappropriate practices of the mountains. This is a small feline in the livestock, agricultural, mining living in the High Andes of Argentina, or tourism sectors, as well as the Bolivia, Chile and Peru, whose survival major threat facing all living beings – is under serious threat. climate change. Every possible effort is Ever since 1999, professionals in necessary to ensure the conservation these countries have been working of this majestic animal which, through AGA (Andean Cat Alliance) moreover, is a fundamental part of the in an effort to conserve this species and shared tradition of the peoples of the four its natural habitat. The aim is to further Andean countries. knowledge of this animal and its environment Further information at: www.gatoandino.org

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Seen on the Voices of the Soul #VocesDelAlma Web Voices of the Soul is a project within the Learn about all our activities #SéSolidario program whereby Fundación on social media. In this MAPFRE strives to ensure that word gets out section you will find a about the work of small institutions, thanks to selection of the best the most recognizable voices in Spain: its best posts on Facebook, Twitter movie voice-over artists. and Instagram. Have a listen!

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A society that saves lives. Miró on Facebook October 16. European Restart a Heart Day. Do not miss this interview in which Joan Punyet Miró, the 262 retweets 91 likes artist’s grandson, introduces us into the artistic universe of the Catalan artist, the contemporary art creator, wizard and genius.

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You can also learn more about our exhibitions on Instagram. Use the hashtags #infiernoRodin, #expo_nixon and #expo_zuloaga to discover and share curiosities about the works being exhibited.

Rodin: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZT0hzOnvfY Nixon: https://www.instagram.com/p/BZwJV4oHBwF Zuloaga: https://www.instagram.com/p/BaMGoxJnTWe

Insurance Museum Campaign

Old plaques, insurance ordinances, policies, advertising posters and flyers, etc. A comprehensive array of elements on display, relating the history of the insurance culture. Discover our permanent collection at the Insurance Museum.

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Fundación MAPFRE Fundación MAPFRE @fmapfre @fmapfre Immerse yourself in the universe of Miró. Cyclist! Before starting off, make sure Discover his life and his dreams. Visit no vehicle is approaching and signal the #EspacioMiró maneuver with your arm. #ConsejoSeguro

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Learning to save can be fun

We are spreading the word on You can see the storify of Facebook about the Youngsters and Road the PlayPension Safetyreport, which forms board game which part of our campaign helps youngsters The environment and genetics are #ObjetivoCero, at: think about the vital factors for the development importance of of our lives, as are our lifestyle and https://storify.com/ saving. habits. FMobjetivocero/jovenes-y-la- seguridad-vial

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