ColorADD Social in Spain!

The month of April 2023 marks the beginning of the implementation, on the ground, of the partnership between ColorADD Social and the ACROMATES Association, with the debut of the “ColorADD in Schools Program” in Vigo.

During the 2023/2024 school year, ColorADD Social not only maintained but reinforced this partnership with ACROMATES, and, together, we took the “Programa nas Escolas” to Madrid, Valladolid, Lugo and Leon.

We visited a total of 4 schools, where we spoke to more than 260 students about the topic of color blindness. Together with 4 local opticians - Avalens, Ioba, Todo visión and Adrián Salgado Ótica y Audción - more than 260 visual acuity and color blindness screenings were carried out.

But let's not stop there! We intend for this project to continue to advance at full speed across Spanish territory!

Because color is for ALL!

ColorADD School Program in Monforte de Lemos, Lugo.

The “ColorADD School Program” in Spain visited Colegio A Gándara in Monforte de Lemos, Lugo.
In partnership with the ACROMATES Association, we spoke to 4th and 5th year students about color blindness, achromatopsia and their limitations - it was very gratifying to see the students' reactions when they heard about the ColorADD Code and understand the impact that this action had.
Being able to count on the support of the Municipality of Monforte, not only in offering ColorADD kits to all students, but also through the presence of the Education Councilor, was a huge privilege for us and the certainty that we are following the right path! Furthermore, the presence of ONCE representatives was also very important!
A thank you also to Adrián Salgado Ótica y Audción who ensured that visual acuity and color blindness screenings were carried out!
Because color is for everyone!

Caminha | ColorADD School Program

ColorADD Social was in Caminha to carry out the "ColorADD in Schools Program" actions on the 15th and 16th of January, at all 1.CEB schools in the municipality of Caminha with all 3rd year students.

Color is for ALL!

Almeirim | ColorADD School Program

ColorADD Program in Schools in Almeirim, covered the seven 1st Cycle schools in the municipality and all 3rd year students and their teachers.
Color is for ALL!

Campo Maior | ColorADD School Program

Campo Maior | ColorADD School Program

“ColorADD Program in Schools” in Spain

We share some testimonies from the launch of the “ColorADD in Schools Program” in Spain, at Colégio Alba, in Vigo. True inclusion is achieved through education! In a partnership with ACROMÁTES and FEDER, ColorADD.SOCIAL took the concept that “Color is for Everyone!” to the Spanish educational ecosystem. A further 23 actions are already planned in other cities throughout this year.

CIMBB | ColorADD - Results presentation

Last school year we had the opportunity to visit all the 1st CEB schools in the 6 Municipalities of Beira Baixa, where we talked about color blindness with all the 3rd year students.
It was a moment of sharing, generosity and learning that we greatly valued and that we kept in a colorful corner of our journey.

We want to share with everyone some little pieces of this project, which we believe will soon gain scale and continue to "bring" color to this region, so full of color, of our colorful country.
Color is for Everyone!!!

We return to Santo Tirso!

Today we return to Santo Tirso, where the "ColorADD in Schools Program" will take place for 3 days.

We are happy in the places where we feel loved and Santo Tirso is also our home - this is the ninth school year in which we are here spreading color through the 1st CEB schools, having already reached more than 4,700 4th grade children, for whom color blindness no longer has any secrets and is just another characteristic of some people.

These students are already agents of paradigm change and this is, without a doubt, an inclusive Municipality by color. Proof of this is the involvement of the local community, where 4 different opticians work in collaboration and, year after year, ensure visual screenings, guaranteeing the visual health of their children.

Because Color is for Everyone!!!

Program in Schools returns to Campo Maior!

Program in Schools returns to Campo Maior on the 12th and 13th of October.

Back to School!

Back to School!

ColorADD at Social Innovation Village 2023

ColorADD at the Social Innovation Village 2023.
Color is, without a doubt, for ALL!

Presentation of Médio Tejo results | ColorADD Social

ColorADD Program in 1ºCEB Schools in the Médio Tejo Region - Presentation of Results
134% of the indicator met!!! We are proud!!!

Result of an Application for the Partnerships for Impact program of Portugal Social Innovation, we had the Intermunicipal Community of Médio Tejo as the Social Investor.
During the last 18 months we have traveled to the 13 Municipalities of the Médio Tejo Region where we have fully carried out the ColorADD Program in all Schools of the 1st CEB.

We visited 103 schools where we carried out 135 actions with 2222 children, 107 Teachers and Technicians and were supported by 14 local opticians who ensured screening for color blindness and visual acuity.

Thank you very much to everyone who accompanied us on this path... because Color is for ALL!!!

For the 5th consecutive year we return to schools in Santarém

Santarém - June 5th to 16th - for the 5th consecutive year we returned to Santarém schools;

The actions of the ColorADD Program in Schools in Santarém, a long-awaited return that has already been repeated over the last five academic years, in a perpetuation that has already become part of ColorADD Social's DNA.

Next school year we promise to return with more challenges and bring even more color to this already colorful region, which is already part of ColorADD Social's DNA.

Color is for ALL!

ColorADD Program in Schools in Beira Baixa

ColorADD Program in Schools in all Municipalities of Beira Baixa, in partnership with CIMBB - from May 8th to 19th

We went to Beira Baixa and brought it with us, in every colorful bit we shared.
"ColorADD Program in Schools" in Beira Baixa, in partnership with the Intermunicipal Community of Beira Baixa and within the scope of PIICIE 2.0 - because Color is for ALL!!!

ColorADD Social returned to Central Alentejo

The ColorADD Program in Schools returned to Central Alentejo.
It was a day full of color and sunshine, with lots of sharing and reunions, and with “grown up” 4th grade students “teaching” what color blindness and the ColorADD code are to younger students.
A happy day! Because Color is for ALL!

ColorADD carries out an unprecedented pilot project in Spain

Social impact solution created in Portugal crosses the border with the aim of including more than 2 million colorblind people from the neighboring country

ColorADD is a Color Identification System for Color Blind People, a universal language that allows, through partner entities and brands, to include more than 350 million people all over the world without discriminating. Since its creation, the language that includes color, created in Portugal by Designer Miguel Neiva, has reached more than 90 countries around the world.

This time, the “Programa ColorADD nas Escolas”, which has already impacted more than 45 thousand students of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education in more than 1800 schools in Portugal, presents its first intervention in a school context in Spain, at Colégio Alba in Vigo, next April 14th.

color blindness

Colorblindness is a non-visible limitation that affects the day-to-day life of the color-blind person in simple everyday tasks such as choosing clothes, selecting a line on public transport, playing a board game or choosing a pencil to paint a drawing.

Whenever and when color is the rational key element to successfully fulfill a certain objective, the ColorADD solution identifies the colors, through simple codes, by the addition system of the three primary colors (blue, red and yellow), plus white and black, thus managing to have the entire color palette, giving the colorblind individual independence.

ACROMATHES and Achromatopsia

This initiative, within the scope of schools in Spain, arises from the close relationship between ColorADD and the ACRÓMATES Association (Asociación de Afectados por Acromatopsia y MCA). Knowing that there are several types of Color Blindness – Deuteranopia, Tritanopia, Protonatopia and Achromatopsia – it is the latter that, as a rare genetic condition, mobilizes this action in the neighboring country, in a school with children with this particularity and who see the world on a scale of black, white and gray.

The ColorADD.Social team develops this joint action with ACRÓMATES and SEAN GAMES, with the support of FEDER (Spanish Federation of Rare Diseases) with the strategic objectives of raising awareness of difference, educating to live in a diverse society and concept of equity in the field of education, accompanied by an unprecedented process of early screening for color blindness and visual acuity, for all children impacted by the project. This set of actions is intended to combat bullying, failure and school dropout phenomena, promoting inclusive schools for all, where all children can have the same learning opportunities.

Moreover, a fundamental note for the direct involvement in this action of Colégio Alba of Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Psychologists, Psychopedagogues, Librarians, School Management, fathers, mothers and guardians, as well as the population in general.

ColorADD in Spain

As this is the first school-based action in Spain, ColorADD has been at the service of the Spanish population for over six years, in various strategic sectors for the implementation of the color identification code.

From its first implementation with MacMillan publishing house, in school textbooks, through areas as diverse as the selective collection of waste with FOVASA in the Valencian community, beach flags and bathing safety with a close partnership with the Blue Flag managing entity in Spain ADEAC (Asociación de Educación Ambiental y del consumero), there are also several board games published by Spanish publishers.

The emblematic Spanish textile brand of sweetwear El Niño adds the inclusion of color to sustainability values in its production lines in 2021 and, more recently, in 2022, the Shopping Centers of the Klépierre group optimized the visit of the colorblind population to its 7 spaces in the cities of Madrid, Barcelona, Oviedo, Murcia and the Canary Islands.

The good will of communication focused on the values of inclusion and equity for a very important segment of the population - more than 2 million citizens - means that ColorADD implementations in Spain are in an exponential growth process, approaching a bathing season of 2023 where beach flags, for the vast majority of the most emblematic beaches on the entire Spanish coastline, will be identified with the ColorADD color code.

This project, which is now starting, aims to be replicated in another 23 Spanish cities during 2023/2024.

“ColorADD School Program” with Honorable Mention in the “Social Economy” category

Santander Portugal Inspirador Award distinguishes ColorADD project

“ColorADD School Program” with an Honorable Mention in the “Economy
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The Banco Santander initiative aimed to “distinguish and publicize the companies and personalities that count for the country”.
The “ColorADD School Program”, an initiative of ColorADD.Social, was nominated in the “Social Economy” category, along with major impact projects for the country such as SPREAD; the AGEAS Foundation's Colon Rectal Cancer Screening Project; the Human Power HUB; the Delta; DECSIS and the Editorial Program of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, this being the winning project in the category in question, the next prize – Honorable Mention, was awarded to the “ColorADD in Schools Program”.

For Miguel Neiva, this award, “being awarded in an ecosystem of such important dynamics for the country as that of companies – SMEs and Large Companies – has a meaning far beyond what has been the mark left in terms of innovation Social."

ColorADD School Programa in Alentejo Central

On the 15th of September, ColorADD.Social held, at the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation Auditorium in Évora, the event “ColorADD Program in Schools in Central Alentejo – Presentation of Results”. There were 63 schools, from 17 school groups, in 97 actions carried out with the interaction of 107 Teachers and Technicians, covering a total of 1511 children from the Municipalities of Alentejo Central. This program resulted from an application to the Partnerships for Impact program of Portugal Inovação Social, having as partners the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, CIMAC - Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alentejo Central and ColorADD.

Abrantes Education Days

Abrantes Education Conference | April 4th to 7th, 2022

April 6th

10:00 am: ColorADD _ “Color and knowledge”
Abrantes Professional Rural Development School
Students from the Municipality of Abrantes

18:00h: ColorADD _ “Color should be for all”

General public | Free participation | Mandatory registration at: https://forms.office.com/r/s2xU6KUbfs

Arouca | ColorADD School Program

In order to raise the awareness of the school community to the issue of color blindness and carry out visual screenings with students in the 4th year of the 1st cycle of the entire municipality, we carry out the "Programa nas Escolas".

At the start of the initiative, the councilor for education, Cláudia Oliveira, was present, taking part in the action where kits were distributed to participating students, consisting of a set of colored pencils and a booklet alluding to ColorADD. Teaching establishments were also provided with teaching materials in digital format, so that teachers can, in the future, apply them in activities in the school context.

“For the Municipality of Arouca, the integration and well-being of our children is extremely important. Therefore, re-associating ourselves with this national campaign, after a year of stopping due to pandemic constraints, happened naturally”, highlighted Cláudia Oliveira, noting that “the added value of this action is clearly visible on the ground, with the diagnosis being happen in our children, at the same time that this limitation is normalized with their peers, leaving them more prepared to accept the difference”.

School Program in S. Maria da Feira

From November 2021 until the 23rd March 2022, the actions of the "ColorADD Program at Schools" were promoted in Santa Maria da Feira, in what is already a permanent dynamic in the agenda of both ColorADD Social and the Municipality.
As always, all the feedback we received and the recognition of the work we have been developing for our Mission was very gratifying. We came back with a full heart and are looking forward to our return next year!!!
A special thanks to the Municipality, our partner in this adventure for many years, and to MultiÓpticas, which once again ensured the screenings for all children.
Color is for All!!!

The ColorADD in Schools Program was in the Municipality of Caminha!

In partnership with Caminha Municipality and with the support of the Lions Club of Vila Praia de Âncora - PO, last January we carried out the actions of the ColorADD Program in the 1st CEB, Basic and Secondary Schools.
We also count on the support of Optiworld, Pitosga Optica and MultiOpticas, to carry out screenings for color blindness and visual acuity, which we carry out for 3rd year students of the 1st CEB.
It was a very colorful day, full of sharing and experiences, which made us want to come back!
Color is for Everyone!!!

VILA NOVA DE CERVEIRA: 70 children from the 3rd and 4th cycles sensitized to the difficulties of colorblind people

With the aim of raising awareness and even detecting possible cases of color blindness in a school context, the Vila Nova de Cerveira City Council and the Agrupamento de Escolas do Concelho welcome, on February 21st, a ColorADD team that will 70 students from the 3rd and 4th grade classes, a practical action alerting to the difficulties underlying this visual alteration, informing of the existence of an innovative tool that helps to minimize the impact of this pathology on daily life.

"Municipality of Vendas Novas implements school project to detect color blindness in childhood."

"The Municipality of Vendas Novas joined a school project dedicated to the problem of color blindness: ColorADD.

It is a project aimed at students in the 3rd year of the Agrupamento de Escolas, which covers this school year and the next, a total investment of 1,000 euros. It consists of training actions for greater awareness of the problem of color blindness, allowing contact with the colorblind vision, feeling its constraints and experiencing the difference. It also includes screening for color blindness so that an early diagnosis is possible.

The presentation was made on January 12 and 13, in the extension of the Educational Center and Basic School of Landeira, with an awareness action that gave students the possibility to see the world through the eyes of those who suffer from color blindness. A ColorADD kit was also given to each of the 100 students, a gift from the Municipality of Vendas Novas, which includes a bag, colored pencils and an activity notebook for the autonomous, independent and playful exploration of this universal language.

This innovative project has an inter-municipal character, through CIMAC, and locally, it has the partnership of the Casa Branca Optical Center, in a perspective of social responsibility."

"Students of the Borba Municipality School Group do a visual screening"

"About 50 children from the 3rd Year of the 1st Cycle of the Schools in Borba, Borba and Rio de Moinhos, performed today, November 19, a visual screening and participated in a presentation session of the ColorADD system - Alphabet of the Colors!

In this activity, there was also time to try out the colored pencils with the ColorADD code, offered by the Municipality, with the special glasses that made them see through a color code similar to that of people with color blindness.

ColorADD is a color identification system for color blind people. Developed by Miguel Neiva, Portuguese graphic designer and professor at the University of Minho, the ColorADD project seeks to help alleviate a problem that affects about 10% of the world's male population."

"Municipality of Portel Receives ColorADD Project in Schools in the Municipality Again"

"After the awareness-raising action on the problem of color blindness, the students, through the use of their own glasses, were able to experience what it is like to have colorblind vision, feel the constraints and experience the difference. Color blindness screenings were also carried out by an optometrist.

The Municipality of Portel offered students and their teachers a Kit with the ColorADD code, allowing them to work and assimilate this universal code in the future. An initiative that promotes the early detection of color blindness in childhood, promoting inclusion and accessibility to Color for all children because “Color should be for All”.

The Municipality of Arraiolos joined the ColorADD Project for the 2nd year in a row!

"The Municipality of Arraiolos, in order to contribute to the promotion of an inclusive and non-discriminatory society, has once again joined the ColorADD project.
The action, promoted by ColorADD.Social, is aimed at the 3rd year of the 1st cycle of Basic Education in the Municipality, and consists of an awareness and screening activity for color blindness (in addition to visual acuity screening)."

The "ColorADD School Program" is already on its way to schools in the Médio Tejo!

The "ColorADD School Program", by ColorADD.Social, in partnership with CIMT and Portugal Inovação Social, is already on its way to schools in the Médio Tejo.
Color is for ALL!!!

ColorADD School Program - Arouca

After a school year of interruption due to the pandemic, the Municipality of Arouca resumed the "ColorADD in Schools Program". From January 10th to 13th, ColorADD.Social was in 10 Schools in the Municipality of Arouca to carry out the "Program in Schools" to more than 196 students from the 1st CEB. Color is for ALL!!!

ColorADD School Program in Caminha - January 10th to 14th, 2022

From January 10th to 14th, ColorADD.Social was in 10 Schools in the Municipality of Caminha to carry out the "Program in Schools" to more than 480 students of different levels of education. The 221 students in the 3rd and 4th grades were also screened for color blindness. Color is for everyone!!!

ColorADD School Program - Vila Nova de Tazem

We came to the Mountain!!! In partnership with Associação Reencontro and with the precious help of Wells de Gouveia optometrists, we were at the basic school of Vila Nova de Tazem to boost the actions of the ColorADD Program at Schools. We returned with a heart full of the affection we received and the joy in the children's eyes.

Color is for ALL!!!

ColorADD at Porto Summer Camps

During the next month of July, we will participate in the 2021 edition of "Missão Férias" - Holiday Camps promoted by the Municipality of Porto | AGORA.

ColorADD on the Porto Beaches

ColorADD together with Águas do Porto | Pavilhão da Água, was on the beaches of Porto for the 3rd consecutive year to make it possible for people to see the world in other colors.
Because color is for all!!!

School Program in Borba - May 28th

Under the "ColorADD School Program” in Central Alentejo the 2 primary schools of the Municipality of Borba received the visit of the ColorADD.Social team on May 28th. The approximately 50 students from both Borba and Rio de Moinhos Primary Schools had the opportunity to see the world differently and feel the constraints associated with colorblindness – an invisible limitation that affects about 350 million people worldwide.

School Program in Santarém – May 17 to 27th

Between May 17th and 27th, and for the third consecutive year, the 33 elementary schools of the Municipality of Santarém received the "ColorADD School Program" once again. About 500 students from the 4 groups of schools in Santarém participated in the actions and screenings for colorblindness.

ColorADD School Program in Vila Flor

"ColorADD Shool Program for 3rd graders of the Vila Flor School Grouping. As it is in the school context that the relationship with the surrounding environment and with the group of peers intensifies, also arising the first constraints (bullying; low self-esteem; learning difficulties; interpersonal relationship difficulties; school failure; etc...), it seems important to us to bring this tool to schools so that, in a playful and fun way, students can become familiar with a new language. The planned actions have the mission to alert the community in general to this cause, with a particular focus on the school community, forming, supporting and accompanying educational and inclusion projects both technically and socially, contributing to an Inclusive School and promoting the early detection of color blindness in childhood, ensuring that children with vision difficulties have accessibility to Color in libraries and classrooms."

ColorADD School Program in Santarém

The Municipality of Santarém reinforced the commitment to education and social equality, through actions of the ColorADD school program in primary schools, which began on November 4th and run until the 14th. These activities were aimed at about 530 3rd graders. Color is for All!

ColorADD School Program in Santarém

Next week, and between the 17th and 27th May, we will run our " School Program" to about 515 3rd graders in 33 primary schools of the Municipality of Santarém for the third consecutive year. As in previous years, we are counting on the Municipality of Santarém continued support, and this year, and for the first time, BrancÓptica, which will be responsible for carrying out the screenings. Color is for All!!!

ColorADD School Program in Mourão

An awareness session and screening action was held throughout the Mourão Schools Group, which aimed to alert to the problem of colorblindness.
The action was directed to 3rd and 4th graders and had as main objectives to prevent bullying and low self-esteem of colorblind students.
Therefore, the students involved experienced the difficulties of a colorblind person and learned the universal codes for colors.

The action was promoted by ColorAdd.Social, a non-profit association dedicated to promoting and enhancing the social integration of colorblind people. A limitation that affects millions of people around the world. This action was supported by the Municipality and the Intermunicipal Community of Central Alentejo (CIMAC).
Photograph: Municipality of Mourão.

ColorADD Masks!

These 48 people and a few more “lent their faces” to a cause!
What about you? When will lend yours to this initiative?!
All revenues go to ColorADD Social, with the aim of making education even more inclusive!!
ColorADD Masks
Price: 5€ + shipping fees
For more info: send a message to coloradd.social@gmail.com

ColorADD School Program in Resende

On October 15th and 16th, 2020, ColorADD.Social carried out the "ColorADD School Program" in the 3 primary schools of the Municipality of Resende, covering more than 160 3rd and 4th graders. All actions were carried out ensuring all preventive measures.

ColorADD School Program in Vendas Novas

The actions of the "ColorADD School Program" in Central Alentejo began on January 12th, 2021, and took place in the 2 primary schools of the Municipality of Vendas Novas. 80 3rd graders had the opportunity to experience seeing the world through the eyes of a colorblind person.

ColorADD School Program in Mora

The ColorADD team was in Mora on January 14th coloring the 3 Primary Schools and developing the "ColorADD School Program" actions with all students of the 3rd grade. Color is For All!!!

ColorADD School Program in Vila Nova de Cerveira

Within the framework of the Parcerias Para o Impacto - Região Norte we finished the actions of our application for this financing instrument with the realization of the "ColorADD School Program" in Vila Nova de Cerveira. It was returning to a place we know well, and where we are always so welcome!

ColorADD School Program in Mogadouro

The 2 primary schools of Mogadouro received the visit of ColorADD.Social once again on November 26th, 2020. The 4th graders, as well as the students in the 5th grade, were able to understand and experience the difficulties inherent to this non-visible limitation. This return demonstrates the importance of raising awareness of the school community for the cause of colorblindness and the relevance of carrying out this program in the school environment.

ColorADD | Bluepharma

Bluepharma Adopts ColorADD Code.
The world's first pharmaceutical company to launch inclusive colorblind medicine packaging

ColorADD.Social in Ribeira Grande | Caixa Social 2020 Prizes

As part of Caixa Social Prize 2020, from Caixa Geral de Depósitos Bank (CGD) we are preparing to carry out the "ColorADD School Program" in the Municipality of Ribeira Grande, on São Miguel island, in the Azores. It will be the first time that the "ColorADD School Program " will take place in one of the Portuguese Autonomous Regions.

ColorADD | Futebol Clube do Porto

Dragon for all.
First inclusive stadium for colorblind worldwide, with the use of ColorADD code in its infrastructures.

ColorADD School Program in Vila Flor

As in other Municipalities, students from the 5 Primary Schools of Vila Flor also had the opportunity to participate in the "ColorADD School Program" during the three school years covered by the application granted by the Parcerias Para o Impacto - Região Norte (our financing instrument). This school year we had the opportunity to visit this beautiful Town in the North of Portugal on September 30th, 2020.

ColorADD School Program in Évora

Happy to return to action and bring color to All! ColorADD at Fundação Eugénio de Almeida, in Évora.