Solidarity

We feel committed. From the very beginning, more than 25 years ago now, we have been committed to working with certain values and the people who promote or should promote these values, as well as those citizen organizations and groups that work to make them a reality.

Free accreditations donations

In the 2026 edition of Rototom Sunsplash, the festival will allocate the 10 euros previously donated for the free pass by children under 13, adults over 65, and people with disabilities (over 65% accredited) to a social project.

The public included in these three groups will be able to choose one of the following NGOs to which to direct their contribution:

The Ateneu Castelló Foundation is an organization with more than 25 years of experience supporting people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and their families, through comprehensive care that includes rehabilitation, support, and prevention. Through its various programs and actions, Ateneu benefits 3,000 people annually. In Castelló, 6,000 people live with ABI, 84% as a result of a stroke. Nine out of ten stroke cases are preventable.

Project: ‘Together for Brain Health-CRAPPS Living Room’. The action that this campaign will help finance, together with Rototom Sunsplash, consists of adapting one of the key therapeutic spaces of the new Rehabilitation, Personal Autonomy and Social Participation Center (CRAPPS) of Ateneu Castelló: the Living Room. An accessible and therapeutic space that will allow training essential skills for the daily life of people with ABI. The Living Room is integrated into the new headquarters of Ateneu Castelló, to which the entity has moved to expand its care capacity and have safe, properly equipped facilities with adequate professional human resources. The center, in full process of reform and adaptation, will serve more than 200 people with ABI and their families each year.

+ INFO: https://ateneocastellon.org/

Payasospital has a trajectory of 26 years during which it has been dedicated to positively transforming the emotional state of pediatric patients using humor and laughter as a therapeutic tool. It currently carries out its work in twelve public hospitals in the Valencian Community. In the province of Castelló, it is present at the Castelló General University Hospital and the La Plana Hospital of Vila-real.

Project: ‘Smiles for hospitalized children in the Valencian Community’. Its objective is to improve the emotional health and quality of life of pediatric patients through the fun, individual and personalized visits of the professional clowns of Payasospital. All of them are carried out in coordination with the health personnel of each hospital center. More than 20,000 admitted minors benefit annually from this project, to whose financing the collaboration with Rototom Sunsplash will contribute.

+ INFO: https://www.payasospital.org/

UNRWA is the United Nations Agency that has been working for 75 years for the Palestine refugee population in the Middle East, guaranteeing education, health, humanitarian aid and essential services to more than six million people. Its mission is to offer assistance and development opportunities to the Palestine refugee population in Gaza, the West Bank –including East Jerusalem-, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Currently, UNRWA faces enormous challenges: the devastation and violence in Gaza, the attacks against its personnel and facilities, the restrictions on humanitarian access and the repeated violation of international humanitarian law. Despite everything, the Agency has not stopped working a single day and remains an indispensable pillar of protection, dignity and hope for millions of people.

Project: ‘Humanitarian emergency in Gaza’. This action of the Spanish Committee of UNRWA reinforces UNRWA’s response to the extreme crisis that the Strip has been experiencing since 2023, providing protection, food, health, water, sanitation, psychosocial support and education. Its objective is to guarantee the survival, dignity and fundamental rights of the more than two million people who make up the population of Gaza. The funds raised through this campaign together with Rototom Sunsplash will be used to support shelters, distribute vital aid, maintain health centers and create learning spaces. Direct humanitarian aid for an exhausted population.

+ INFO: https://unrwa.es/

Stand Up For Jamaica is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 by a group of volunteers from Amnesty International Italy to promote and defend the human rights of Jamaican society, especially the most vulnerable people and groups: children, women, impoverished communities, the prison population, people with HIV/AIDS, or people with disabilities. Through its various projects, it works to improve their living conditions, offer education and psychosocial support, and strengthen their individual capacities and autonomy to break cycles of violence and exclusion and achieve full reintegration into society.

Project: ‘Updating Computer Centers for the Autonomy and Professional Training of the Prison Population in Jamaica.’ The solidarity campaign with Rototom Sunsplash will contribute to improving and providing new equipment to three computer centers in the General Penitentiaries of St. Catherine and Tower Street and the South Camp Women’s Penitentiary within the framework of the educational project with the prison population that the NGO is developing in these institutions. It benefits 200 people deprived of their liberty and prepares them for reintegration by obtaining a qualified professional competence. The updating of these facilities will allow the program to be developed with the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) so that people deprived of their liberty can attend online classes and obtain a university degree in Finance and International Finance. These rooms also offer classes to small groups in data management, computer technician skills, and graphic design, in alliance with the HEART Foundation.

+ INFO: https://www.standupforjamaica.org/

More than 50 entities dealing with peace, human and civil rights, fair trade, anti-prohibition, the environment, reggae and Rastafarian culture participate each year in the Rototom Sunsplash. They do so with their stands during the festival, their talks in the Social Forum or the Reggae University and their workshops held in the different cultural areas.

Without solidarity among people, we cannot make advancements in human rights nor can we advance towards the better world that we all long for. That is why we say solidarity is essential.

We collaborate with associations by directly supporting their actions

Projects in which we have collaborated:

Edition

L’Aurora Support Group

The contribution given to l’Aurora Grup de Suport, dedicated to supporting humanitarian rescue ships in the Mediterranean, will be distributed between two projects. On the one hand, the deployment of the entity in Sicily to replicate there the entire system of logistics and support to humanitarian rescue ships of migrants in the Mediterranean that has been carried out in the last five years in Valencian ports. On the other hand, the entity will be able to go a step further in the Eulàlia Rescue RHIB project in Borriana, “to make a training center to have a team of between 10 and 20 people ready to operate in the rescue boats of the different ships.

COCEMFE Castelló

COCEMFE Castelló, with more than 30 years of experience in adapted transport, which currently serves Castelló, Almassora, Vilafamés and Borriana, will use the funds raised thanks to the Rototom Sunsplash donations to purchase an adapted van to cover the “door to door and fully customized” trips of people with disabilities and reduced mobility who live in towns farther away from the capital to facilitate daily tasks such as attending their jobs, medical appointments, day centers or leisure spaces.

AFA Castellón

The collaboration of Rototom Sunsplash with AFA Castelló will allow the acquisition of a van adapted to move from their homes and to the Day Center La Pineda de Castelló to the users. Facilitating physical access to this resource is a key to democratizing the service, favoring the reconciliation of families and optimizing the therapies performed at the center.

ANAR Foundation

The funds obtained through the collaboration of Rototom Sunsplash and the Valencian delegation of ANAR will go to the program ‘Phone/Chat ANAR to help children and adolescents at risk in the Valencian Community’. The objective is to provide children and adolescents with a safe and confidential space where they feel listened to and respected, and where they can freely express what is happening to them in order to find alternatives to their problems together.

Grup de Suport l’Aurora

Our 2023 solidarity campaign channelled through the reusable cup system has raised 18,900 euros, destined for L’Aurora Grup de Suport de Burriana (Castellón de la Plana), an organisation that has been cooperating for more than three years with NGOs that rescue lives in the Mediterranean. The money raised will go to two projects: the Eulàlia-Rescue Rhib training boat and L’Aurora-Sicily, which will replicate the NGO’s work in Italian ports.

Banco de alimentos de Castellón

In the 28th edition of Rototom Sunsplash we have once again given our support to the Banco de alimentos de Castellón, through collaboration with the M21 Foundation. His team has been in charge of spreading the word about the project among the public and facilitating the collaboration channels through the totems installed in the venue. Thanks to this system, the public was able to make their own direct donation to the organisation. An initiative that has been completed by allocating part of the proceeds from the festival’s system of reusable cups, in collaboration with L’Aurora Grup de Suport de Burriana (Castellón de la Plana).

Banco de alimentos Castellón

We have renewed our collaboration with the Banco de Alimentos de Castellón through the organisation FoodRation4All and its projectNadie sin su ración diaria’ (No one without their daily ration).‘. The public was able to make their contributions through two fixed totems in the concert venue and the campsite, and a third mobile one. By means of a QR code, attendees were able to find out about the campaign and make a donation via POS, while also seeing the symbolic value of the donation.

Grup de Suport L’Aurora

Through the sale of works from the Social Art Gallery, we raised 800€ to be donated to the Grup de Suport L’Aurora de Burriana (Castellón), an organization dedicated to cooperation with NGOs that rescue lives in the Mediterranean.

Asociación Conquistando Escalones and CASDA

Thanks to our community we have raised €6,014 through the reusable cup system. The money has been donated to the Conquistando Escalones Association (ACE) – founded by people affected by 1F-D2 Limb-girdle Muscular Dystrophy, caused by a mutation that makes them immune to HIV – together with CASDA (Citizens’ Association against AIDS in Castelló).

Mediterranean SUP Action

We supported both financially and in terms of dissemination the Mediterranean Sup Action initiative, Enrico Grossi’s crossing of the entire coast of the Valencian Community in paddle surf ing – more than 400 km – in 10 days. The objective was to raise awareness about the attention and care that we must pay to the sea, raising funds for the non-profit association BIOagradables of Valencia, which organizes awareness and environmental education activities in schools in the Valencian Community.

Accem Castelló

In the middle of the social and health crisis, we delivered a thousand FFP2 masks and 500 visors to the NGO Accem in Castelló, thanks to the donation of our friends from Glamping. Accem works to improve the quality of life of refugees, migrants and more vulnerable groups.

Asociación Líbero

In 2019 we also support the Asociación Líbero of Malaga who care for the seed bank, donated by Semillas Madre Tierra in 2015 to Rototom. They along with members of the Southeast Permaculture Network take care of and reproduce this seed collection so that it continues to expand every year.

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