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In the beginning of 1980, Josep Torné i Pardell came up with the idea of creating a charity foundation for children without family support or in a serious economic-cultural environment and donated personal equity to start to fund the project.
On 22 May 1984 the Roger Torné Foundation was formally established. Since then and until the death of Josep Torné in 2000, the Foundation actively participated in the Catalan Coordinating Committee and in the drawing up of the code of ethics. During these years, he carried out extremely diverse patronage initiatives, both with regard to objectives and their locations: Close to 100 entities and individuals located in Catalonia, Spain, Latin America, Africa and Asia received financial aid.
The distribution of aid during this period had the following distribution:
In 2004, UNICEF nominated the Roger Torné Foundation as an honorary member due to the important contributions it made that year in the Timor reconstruction project.
Between 2000 and 2006, the Roger Torné Foundation also investigated different routes in order to have its own social project, which was started up starting in 2006.
Presently, the Foundation works on this project, which it has baptised with the name La Casa de l’Aireand whose guiding principle is health, children and the environment. Supporting its social work, it has continued sponsoring activities in Butembo and at other foundations and associations working with children. It is also committed to disseminating informaiton and raising awareness about the impact of environmental factors on children’s health.