Twenty unemployed over 45 years of age from Caravaca de la Cruz are trained in gardening and cleaning with a 12-month community program that, in addition to theoretical training, provides them with a paid work opportunity to prepare the site of Fuentes del Marqués.
The initiative, which has a grant of 313,000 euros from the Ministry of Employment, Universities, Enterprise and Environment, through the SEF, will allow ten of these student-workers acquire the skills needed to work as farm laborers, laborers gardening and pawns nurseries, or opt for self-employment creating your own gardening company.
The other ten unemployed who participate in the program can obtain a certificate of cleanliness professionalism in open spaces and industrial facilities that, in addition to accrediting their skills in this professional branch, will prepare them to work, for example, as street cleaning workers and laborers of waste collection.
After three months of theoretical training, these unemployed have been hired by the City of Caravaca de la Cruz and, for nine months, will be responsible for the maintenance and conservation of both the natural site of the Fuentes del Marqués and other public spaces of the municipality.
The general director of the SEF, Alejandro Zamora, visited the participants of this program today with the mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, José Moreno, and stressed that "the main objective of initiatives like this is to encourage these people to improve their qualifications, and therefore, your options to find a job. "
Previously, Zamora met with the mayor of Caravaca de la Cruz, José Moreno, to discuss the development of this program, as well as the other three that are currently underway in the municipality with funding from the SEF.
These three initiatives add grants worth 105,500 euros.
Source: CARM