"I had an employee who said they preferred sleeping in prison, because at least they slept soundly." The reflection by the vice-president of the Association of Balearic Insertion Companies (AIBEI), Maria Jaume, encapsulates one of the sector's main concerns: the housing crisis is preventing many vulnerable people from escaping exclusion, even after finding a job.

The Caves of Drach will once again host a top-quality opera night. The Lake Martel amphitheater, the spectacular underground auditorium, is set to welcome 550 people for what will be the 10th anniversary of the annual show. For this occasion, the organizer of the evening, Toni Font, once again trusts the trio formed by soprano Marga Cloquell, pianist Jesús López Blanco, and actor and narrator Toni Gomila.

When a family from the Islands receives the news that they must leave their home and go to Barcelona for one of them to receive treatment, the illness stops being the only problem. Another race begins: finding a place to sleep, managing work, and learning to live with uncertainty. For more than 20 years, the Association for Aid to the Patient's Companion (ADAA) has been alleviating this burden with a silent and constant task that this year has earned it the ARA Balears Colonya Caixa Pollença Award for Social Action.

At number 27 on Joan d’Àustria street in Inca, behind a shop window full of fabrics and embroidery, there is a space where solidarity takes shape. It is the workshop of Punts amb Vida, the most visible project of the Inca Solidària association.

Friends of the Earth Mallorca, the local Nicaraguan association Adenoch, and Friends of the Earth Spain are carrying out a project this year to promote sustainable water management in the Chinandega watersheds of Nicaragua. The initiative, entitled "Community Strengthening and Sustainable Management in the Chinandega Watersheds," is being developed in coordination with public institutions and municipal governments, as highlighted by Friends of the Earth in a press release. Specifically, the project is being implemented in the Tecomapa and El Arenal-El Ubuto hydrographic units of the Río Negro sub-basin and benefits rural communities in the municipalities of Somotillo and San Francisco del Norte. The project is funded by the Government's Directorate General for Immigration and Development Cooperation and continues the work carried out since 2023 in the same area with projects to boost local capacities in the face of climate change and pressure on water resources. The initiative aims to strengthen community leadership and water governance, promoting the active participation of local leaders in decision-making regarding water use and conservation. The initiative will directly benefit 185 people, half of whom are women, from 13 rural communities. It will also promote sustainable agricultural practices such as biointensive gardens, the use of improved seeds, and silvopastoral systems.

The president of the Mallorcan Institute of Social Affairs (IMAS), Guillermo Sánchez, has stated that the government and the Consell de Mallorca are unaware of whether the Balearic Islands will have to take in migrant minors transferred from the Canary Islands—the distribution began on Monday with ten children—as reported by Europa Press on Tuesday. Sánchez, who is also the island institution's Minister of Social Welfare, has criticized the Spanish government's failure to report "either on the distribution of minors from the Canary Islands to the Balearic Islands or on what has happened with regard to asylum seekers."

From this Tuesday until August 16, the Colonia de Sant Pere Cultural Center will host a charity exhibition by the ADA-Món Adivasi Foundation, which is developing several projects in India. The participating artists include Ferran Aguiló, Mónica Abad, Paz Alomar, Carmen Bermejo, Nacha Pomar, Miguel Sánchez Cuenca, Maribel Pomar, and José María Herrera. The opening hours are from 7 to 10 p.m.

The women behind the citizen initiative that was called on July 31st Several marches for Palestine throughout Mallorca, have issued a statement in which they have praised the initiative—which they estimate brought together 22,000 participants on the island—and have criticized the media coverage it received, particularly from IB3, and the reaction of the Government the day after the demonstrations. In the statement, they explained that the meeting, held on Monday in Sineu, sought to express "the grave concern, not to say alarm, caused by the media coverage of the marches" and that the public broadcaster of the Balearic Islands Radio and Television (BRT) "failed to fulfill its purpose of guaranteeing freedom of expression and the right of citizens to receive independent information."