1.1 Historical social return The ONCE was born in 1938 with the efforts of a group of blind people who joined forces to become stronger. In those times of hardship, they refused a public subsidy and wanted instead to share the reality of citizens with the street-level sale of a lottery product, the “coupon”, which would slowly take root in the streets as a lever for social inclusion, as a system of social return that would gradually make history. Almost 86 years later, we are the ONCE Social Group, the world’s largest generator of social services and employment for blind and disabled people, and the fourth largest non-public employer of people with and without disabilities in Spain, with a workforce of almost 72,000 at the end of 2023.