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The dean NGO consolidates its commitment to the circular economy and the culture of solidarity by opening a catalog of more than 5,000 books to the public.
The new space, which will also house literary activities of all kinds, culminates the project "librostraperos.com", which promotes since 2016 the donation and purchase of "books read, books welcome".
The inauguration will have the intervention of the coordinator of the NGO, Paco López Vidal, as well as the poet and cultural journalist José Antonio Martínez Muñoz and Vicente Cervera, professor of Hispanic-American Literature at the University of Murcia, and will be enlivened by the performance of the storytellers María Valgo and Carmen Clemente and the musical duo formed by Sebastián Mondéjar and Pedro Egio.
Traperos de Emmaus opens on Thursday, the 8th, a large "circular bookstore" in the neighborhood of Santa Eulalia (Ronda de Garay, 39), in Murcia, where it will exhibit for the solidarity sale a selection of material collected through its project of promotion of donation and acquisition of used books.
The new space, called "rag books", will house a selection of more than 5,000 books classified in different sections, and also wants to be a meeting point for lovers of culture in the capital, for which it will host an intense program of presentations literary, meetings with authors, reading groups and all kinds of activities related to the world of books.
The new space, which is the most important second-hand bookstore in the region, completes a project begun at the end of 2016 with the launch of the website "librostraperos.com", with which the NGO promotes the circular economy around these cultural products.
The project also includes a network of collection points of "books read, books welcome", scattered throughout the capital, its districts and the city of Cartagena, and a specific volunteer plan, for which it has established agreements with the City Council of Murcia and the University of Murcia, among other entities.
THE SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMITMENT OF EMMAUS DRAPERS
The principles of social and solidarity economy and environmental commitment are part of the very essence of the Trapero Association of Emmaus of the Region of Murcia since its birth in 1995, one of its main objectives being to promote responsible consumption based on reuse of the resources and products that our society discards.
Since its origins in France in the middle of the last century, the International Movement of Ragweed of Emmaus (more than 350 entities around the world) has always been linked to work, both as a driver of personal change and as a tool for empowerment and to generate its own resources. ensure the independence and sustainability of the entire project.
This orientation allows Traperos de Emaús Región de Murcia to maintain a relationship between its own resources and institutional subsidies of 80% / 20%, which gives an idea of ​​the autonomy of the organization, making it possible to generate alternatives to social exclusion processes with comprehensive support, from the housing reception to the return to the working world, through therapeutic support, socio-health technical assistance and, most importantly, inclusion in a community of mutual care in which it is possible to recover social ties, habits healthy, empowerment and responsibility to people suffering situations of exclusion.
This work is only viable thanks to a broad network of solidarity, settled for more than two decades within the society of Murcia.
The friends and friends of Traperos who decide to donate to the organization the objects that they no longer need start a chain of generosity that goes through the volunteers who share the immense volume of work that Traperos de Emmaus develops.
Closing the circle are the people who choose a form of responsible consumption and acquire the recovered products, in our Rastro, our Traperías and, now, our online bookstore.
The work developed by Traperos de Emaús Región de Murcia during its more than 20 years has been recognized with the Sustainable Development Award 2015, Solidarity Award ONCE 2016 Region of Murcia, Murcia Business Award in Equality 2016, and Mentalized Company Award 2016 (for work in mental health with people at risk of social exclusion).
Source: Agencias
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