The Minister of Social Policy, Women and Migration, Joaquín Bascuñana, today opened the new trail of the Association 'Mops Emmaus' in the hamlet of Los Dolores Murcia.
He accompanied the president of the Association, Francisco Manuel Lopez Vidal, Director General of Pensions, Assessment and Inclusion Programs, John Brown, and Councilman Public Facilities Management in Molina de Segura, Cayetano Ros.
The new facilities have been built on an area of 1,300 m2 and houses the trace of second-hand items (furniture, clothing, toys, appliances), collected in homes of Molina de Segura Murcia, mainly.
They also have a repair shop furniture and equipment for public use, an alternative exhibition space available to any artist whose work has an environmental or social content, point of sale of Fairtrade products to transform the current economic environment and social for a more just and sustainable, and a collection of organic products.
In addition, the Association has in the place of Cañada de San Pedro (Los Ramos) with the Villa I Ayllón, where he carries out his project in a pleasant and growth potential.
And also has a host-community home, up to 20 people.
Rag pickers of Emmaus is a business-environmental project that promotes economic solidarity in the service of social inclusion.
In their departments and working groups are people, learn new relationship skills and are motivated to get a decent job and according to their personal and family needs.
Source: CARM