«La Prote», daily life and life stories Authors Benet Gordaliza Cornellà Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Espanya Carlos Sánchez-Valverde Visus Universitat de Barcelona, Espanya Keywords: childhood, protection, Childhood Protection Board, social education, oral history, Wad Ras Charity Group. Abstract With this collaboration, we highlight the daily life led by the boys and girls placed in this centre and their testimony, based on the words and life stories of some of them, out of the thousands that lived there in the Wad Ras Charity Group [Grup Benèfic Wad Ras] part of their childhoods. We also include, incidentally and by way of documentary support, testimonies of the graphic history and some audio-visual resources to be found regarding the centre in different archives and in the newspaper and periodicals library of the publications of the time.Key words: childhood, protection, Childhood Protection Board, social education, oral history, Wad Ras Charity Group. Downloads PDF (Català) PDF PDF (Español) Issue No. 30 (2017): juliol-desembre Section Documents License The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors. On submitting articles for publication to the journal Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles submitted for publication to Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació.Authors answer to Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries for the authorship and originality of submitted articles.Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.The Society for the History of Education in Catalan-speaking countries declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.The journal is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.