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Among other measures, it provides for the creation of a socialization workshop and approach to the hydroponic production model, a method used to grow plants using mineral solutions instead of agricultural soil.
The Councilor Rebeca Pérez met this morning with officials of this foundation to evaluate the progress of this plan and address the next call for grants.
The Councilor for Youth and Development Cooperation, Rebeca Pérez today valued the work that Fundación Juan Ciudad carries out in Colombia thanks to the collaboration that the City Council maintains with this NGO in the commitment acquired with the most needy.
The objective of this project is the generation of sustainable income, food security and a healthy nutritional environment in 4 households headed by women living in Comuna IV, Ciudadela Sucre, in Soacha.
The councilor of the area, Rebeca Pérez, held this morning a meeting at the headquarters of Jesus Abandoned with Eduardo Ribes, representative of the Juan Ciudad Foundation, which belongs to the Hospital Order San Juan de Dios, which is ascribed the Foundation Jesus Abandoned.
Also attended by the president of the Jesus Abandoned Foundation, José Moreno, and the director of this, Daniel Lopez.
The meeting has served to evaluate the progress of the joint plan that takes place in Colombia and to address the next call for subsidies of the City Council for development aid scheduled for September.
In 2017, € 450,000 has been earmarked for these actions, of which € 325,000 was earmarked for cooperation projects, € 75,000 for humanitarian aid for catastrophes and € 50,000 for awareness-raising projects in the municipality of Murcia.
To improve the socioeconomic environment among the population of this area of ​​Colombia, the project will promote the installation of systems of ecological agriculture in the service of this population.
As Rebeca Pérez explained during the visit, "the commune where this project operates is located in the southeast mountain of Soacha and presents a distribution of neighborhoods that conform without legalization, as well as a infrastructure of services very precarious and insufficient.
For this reason, the initiative developed by the Juan Ciudad Foundation, with the collaboration of the City Council, provides for a social study and home visit to the beneficiaries to recognize their surroundings, together with the development of a socialization workshop and approach to the model of Hydroponic production, a method used to grow plants using mineral solutions instead of agricultural soil.
Likewise, the selection and contracting of suppliers for the supply of materials and specialized professionals for the technical accompaniment will be carried out, as well as the installation of 6 vertical hydroponic production systems as a pilot exercise, in order to multiply learning, identify deviations And follow up the appropriation of the model.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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