Powerful Reasons

DAVID RAMIL

Powerful Reasons

Q Can you explain more about your charity Powerful Reasons?

Powerful Reasons is not just my entity, it is an inclusive organization that looks to help as many people as possible and that also wants to be an organizational model based on the search for excellence, in the style of the Nordic countries. We are not looking for charity projects, we want to develop high-impact, self-sustaining projects, in line with the SDGs and the UN 2030 Agenda. I am not Onassis, I was born in a small town in Galicia and 6 years ago I was cleaning glasses in Malta despite having higher education and when I started this project I only had my salary of 1,700 euros net per month. After 11 months we have 12 people helping in the organization, with great training who contribute from different parts of the world such as Spain, USA, Nepal, Kenya, Cyprus, Mozambique or Cambodia. If we continue growing, I am convinced that we will contribute through this entity to the beginning of an essential world citizen reaction if we want to save humanity and the planet.

Q What motivated you to start the charity?

When you have a easy life and apart from that you also suffer a rare disease, when you worry about yourself but also about your surroundings because the tears of others hurt you as if they were your own, when you travel to Syria with ISIS active, in the middle of the war with a clandestine visa, and you look into the eyes of mutilated children, or families destroyed due to purely economic decisions of the company-states in collusion with large international corporations, when you travel to Ukraine and your body trembles sharing the fear of people a few days before the outbreak of a war, when every five seconds a child dies of hunger in the world, when malaria or tuberculosis are fully curable pandemics that kill twice as many people each year as COVID-19, yes, the COVID-19 of the pharmaceutical companies that go up on Wall Street as more injections they sell but they don’t have the decency to allocate part of their profits to people who can’t pay for the more basic medicines, when every day a woman is squandered in Saudi Arabia or Qatar and that country is awarded a World Cup because its oil commands more than fundamental human rights, when you understand that Adam Smith’s thesis that selfishness of individuals will lead to general welfare is just a dead letter, when you see that in the capitalist world there are invisible lines of reasoning like in neighborhoods of Glasgow that do not exceed 54 years of life expectancy, you realize that you have to do something now. It is my responsibility to try to leave the new generations a better world than the one I have found, just as our parents and grandparents have tried to do. And we’re going to get it.

Q Why did you choose to integrate blockchain technology?

We are proud to say that we are the first non-profit organization in the world that has Blockchain in its own ecosystem to guarantee maximum transparency in any action. The donor can see the outflow and inflow of money in a totally clean and unhackable way, monitor the projects they support and see the impact of their help. Right now the web fuertes-razones. org is undergoing reforms precisely to optimize this technology. Until within approximately a month it will not be fully functional again.

Q Can you outline the courses that you run?

One of our sources of self-financing is the courses taught by specialists who belong to Powerful Reasons. In that sense we are very chameleons. By having a multidisciplinary team we are lucky to offer very varied themes. From how to create a social company, expert courses on the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals, coaching courses to reduce worker stress, graphic design courses or even training on how to create your own broker. We will continue to advance in this area with the aim of generating sustainable knowledge.

Q As it is a huge net positive in helping organizations like yourselves, how do you look to have institutions help your charity?

All help is welcome and getting it on our own merits without having to resort to patronage speaks well of how we do things, although there is always space for improvement, of course. We are happy with the historic agreement that we signed last March with the largest university in Spain (UNED) and the Galician Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEGAMP) to provide training to political and technical personnel from 313 cities representing almost 3 million people on the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. However,

our management model, regardless of the help of public administrations, is only sustainable with the support of our private Sponsors, whom we thank for their trust. In this sense, we have an annual program with great benefits for them. With it, we grant them an official certificate of corporate social responsibility, we provide them with a lot of visualization on our social networks, which helps them obtain contracts in their respective areas. They also obtain tax benefits and much more.

Q Are there also tax benefits to brands helping your charity?

As I mentioned in the previous point, of course, our partners get tax benefits, however, Powerful Reasons seeks loyalty and that is not only achieved with a profitable economic package. We periodically inform about the activities carried out to help the most vulnerable groups and it matters a lot to us that the Sponsors feel that they have even contributed to saving lives. There is no money to pay for that.

Q Have you found that sponsoring a charity is a great tool for marketing a brand?

A company that today does not have a corporate social responsibility certificate is like a table that is missing a leg. In the year 2022, those who do not understand that should only travel and see with their own eyes the turn that the world is facing.

Q How can people get involved and contact you?

Through the email info@fuertes-razones.org or by visiting our website www.fuertes-razones.org from the contact form or the phone number that we make available to everyone.