Althenia provides training to unemployed women in Palma-Palmilla

In cooperation with Cáritas, the program provides students with practical skills during three months
Althenia and Cáritas Diocesana have reached a cooperation agreement to provide work training to ten women from the Palma-Palmilla area. They will receive theoretical and practical training in gardening and landscaping at various Althenia work centres.

The women, between the ages of twenty and fifty, are all either long-term unemployed or have not entered the job market, in a precarious financial situation with children.

The second edition of this project, called One woman, one solution, seeks to help the students escape from their difficult situation, discovering their skills and values.

This apprenticeship program is aimed at providing the skills necessary to access the job market. The majority of the theoretical content of the program is designed to build confidence and skills necessary for conflict resolution in all areas of their lives.

The apprenticeship has a duration of three months, starting Monday, and during this period students will be trained in the maintenance and conservation of parks and gardens rotating at various Althenia work centres. Their work will be supervised and evaluated by a tutor. The project is being executed in the area of Palma-Palmilla and is associated with Cáritas San Pío X and Jesús Obrero Parish.

Althenia is the environmental division of the Sando Group, specialised in landscaping and gardening, forestry management and maintenance and Waste management. This is the second of this type of community action program organised in partnership with the AFAUS Association. The previous project involved the training of a group of mentally handicapped people in the conservation and maintenance of green areas in Guadalajara. All of Sando’s community projects are coordinated internally through the Sando Fundación.

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