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The Catholic University of Murcia, at the initiative of its president José Luis Mendoza, has created the UCAM Senior classroom, aimed at unemployed people over 45 years of age.

Through it, the two entities will offer, in a first action, training activities and employment to 25 women, counting on the collaboration and social commitment of several companies in the Region of Murcia The first beneficiaries of this social initiative, promoted by the La Caixa Foundation, Caixabank and UCAM will be 25 women from the associations Jesús Abandonado, Oblatas, Paréntesis, Cepaim, Columbares, Cáritas, CEOM, Fundown, FAMDIF, COCEMFE and the Gitano Secretariat.

These are people at risk of social exclusion, who live in situations of marginality, who have a disability or who come from penitentiary institutions, to which the University will provide training and the La Caixa Foundation will provide their experience in job placement through the program 'Incorporate'. This initiative has been endorsed in an agreement signed at UCAM by the president of the Catholic University, José Luis Mendoza, and the territorial director of Caixabank in Murcia and Eastern Andalusia, Juan Ignacio Zafra, who has indicated that it will be the bank, through of the decentralized budget of the Foundation, "the one that makes the contribution and the one that contacts Murcian companies, which have already shown their interest in offering work to people from these groups".

For the director of Institutional Relations at UCAM, José Luis Mendoza García, it is an initiative that responds to the values ??of the Catholic University of Murcia and its social commitment, since "the University has to act as a vehicle with society to reach those who need it ".The director of the UCAM International Chair of Social Responsibility, Víctor Meseguer, has specified that the project "aims to make companies in the Region aware of the need to provide employment to people at risk of exclusion, and to the importance of their collaboration and involvement in the integration process ". Against the digital divide The La Caixa Foundation has also renewed its agreement with the UCAM Murcia Football Club.

Both entities work together on various corporate social responsibility projects, including the fight against the digital divide for children, especially after the situation caused by the pandemic.

In recent weeks, UCAM Murcia and its business club have donated tablets for children who are in a special situation of vulnerability.

These donations are in addition to other contributions and donations received.

Source: UCAM