The Minister of Education, Training and Employment, Sotoca Constantine, and the Mayor of Murcia, Patricia Fernandez, accompanied by the Secretary General of the Ministry, Marcos Manuel Sanchez, and the director of the SEF, Ginés Martínez, closed this morning Employment Workshop 'Chaplaincy' in which, for one year, have trained 24 local unemployed in specialties related to masonry and restoration of urban spaces and represents an investment of 715,979 euros, 518,000 euros which has funded Autonomous Region and the rest of the City of Archena.
Both Sotoca as Patricia Fernandez agreed that the importance of such initiatives "are essential in times of crisis, where we should go for projects and actions to improve the employability of the unemployed," and stressed that this workshop has enabled them to learn a trade, while they have been productive work for general and social interest.
Students have been working throughout the years in various settings of the municipality as the municipal nursery, gardens of the Rotunda Chaplaincy, Iberian Warrior or the Garden of the magazine.
The Job Holder reiterated the "effort" being made by the regional government to mitigate the effects of the crisis in the local area and offer new opportunities for workers in the region.
Opportunities, he said, "necessarily come from the hand of the training and initiatives like this that create jobs."
In this sense, Sotoca recalled that last year, the Ministry has invested in the municipality of 500,000 euros Archena other in various training and employment programs, which have involved the hiring of 64 people unemployed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Archena