ONCE
The Spanish National Organization of the Blind (Spanish: Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles), commonly known as the ONCE (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈonθe], as in the Spanish word for the number 11), is a Spanish foundation founded on December 13, 1938, to raise funds to provide services for the blind and people with serious visual impairment. Although it is overseen by a board of patrons made up of representatives from various Spanish ministries, it does enjoy a certain amount of freedom of decision making in the day-to-day running of its activities, and its general council is democratically elected from among its members.