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The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, along with Christopher Gil Talavera, project coordinator Palliri Foundation, and the president of Caritas, José Luis Leante, and the secretary general of Caritas, Antonio Sánchez, presented this morning the balance project being developed in El Alto, Bolivia, financed entirely by the city of Murcia.
The ceremony was also attended by the head of Development Cooperation, José Andrés Olmos.
Murcia City Council and the Foundation Palliri - Caritas Murcia have been working together since the last fifteen years in the city of El Alto, Bolivia.
The Foundation is an institution under the Diocese of El Alto.
Throughout all this time, this city has been one of the priority areas for development cooperation of the City, given the traditional ties of friendship and relationships.
Specifically, measures have been taken as:
- The implementation of the Child Education Center James II.
- Construction of Integral Education Center Las Delicias.
- Construction of the Integral Education Center City of Murcia.
- The Center for Women Palliri.
- School Workshop - Training Program and Training.
It is also developing a major initiative for technical support through the City's volunteer program, which annually provides a series of grants for this area.
Workshop School Project
The Schools Project Workshop and Training Center and Training Palliri is the result of negotiations held since the beginning of 2008 at the initiative of the Technical Office for Development Cooperation of the Municipality of Murcia and Socio Palliri Project.
This project, which currently is two years of implementation, is also the result of the needs expressed by beneficiaries of the areas where the Foundation works Palliri, youth and women with a very complicated social problems and a dramatic dropout rate many cases.
This initiative and the current state of progress of the project would have been impossible without the advice and participation of the technical office of development cooperation of the City of Murcia and also the support provided by this office for correction and development activities and future work plans of the project to be implemented.
Therefore, it is a project with a high participation, since it also inserted a diverse range of Bolivian institutions such as universities, municipalities, local NGOs, institutions and social and civic forces.
Is an innovative project because it serves as an experience that has been successfully tested in Murcia and adapted and transformed to be developed in Bolivia, has been well received by both the intended beneficiaries as local institutions are implementing.
Palliri Training Center
The project has several phases and an initial term of three years.
It aims to develop skills and job skills, personal productivity and participation-oriented social criticism in the economic context for a standardized labor market.
The beneficiaries of the Workshop School, are being formed in the branches of masonry, plumbing and electricity.
The course has a mission to carry out the construction of the Center for Vocational Training Achocalla.
The new center will serve two functions:
Educational and training role: it must be the seat of the new Centre of Vocational Training Achocalla where new stages and develop school workshop specialties (eg, catering and support services).
Production function: the new infrastructure must also fulfill a function as a productive project, so it will serve as a house of meetings (convention center) for the reception of groups, institutions and activities of various kinds, while providing resources for the maintenance of own training project.
Will also host and place of practice in the area of catering and support services.
Future Projects
Jobs for the future go to continue working together, seeking new forms of cooperation that will make long-term debt, with more and better impact.
It's about working through ways to improve the quality of development cooperation and to strengthen the projects already undertaken.
Some suggestions:
- Search of joint resources through other development cooperation agencies: AECI, European Funds, Etc.
- Work through agreements between networks.
- Co-development actions that have local impact and show in Murcia society the benefits of development cooperation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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