The Collective for Social Promotion "The Candle", through funding from the Instituto Murciano Social Action (IMAS) and in collaboration with the Department of Social Welfare of the City of Totana, has completed the formation of a total of 42 people developed two training workshops in the framework of the "Gelem-Gelem: Community interventions in social housing in Totana.
The objectives of this project are to enable a meeting space where participants offer an alternative educational and training attractive and different from traditional and formal education, as well as promoting mutual respect among neighbors and to the environment in which they live .
Through this training activity, users were able to improve the physical conditions of sanitation of their dwellings and common areas as well as learning a trade through the paint shop, and have also been able to improve their basic skills of literacy, numeracy and Communication through literacy workshop.
The first of the workshops, the workshop "Literacy", which began on February 1 and ended on April 29, Coto with the participation of 32 persons.
This workshop had a total duration of 72 hours and there were two distinct groups in time and location, one of them developed in social housing in Argentina street hours 17:00 to 19:00 hours and the second group was Local Social located in the district of "El Parral" in time from 19:00 to 21:00.
The second workshop held was "Paint Shop", with a total duration of 56 hours between 13 and 30 April, attended by a total of 10 people.
This workshop was held in the building of social housing situated at Argentina and helped to restore a large part of the building's common areas.
From "The Candle" underlined that the completion of this activity has been possible thanks to the direct collaboration of the City of Totana and the local company "Fecarba Industrial Supplies, who provided free access to all materials needed for development.
In addition to the collective provision of materials "The Candle" has been supported by the Social Welfare mayor of the town, who expressed his "concern for carrying out such actions in addition to improving living conditions encourages the establishment of neighborly relations and neighborhood development of shared responsibilities. "
The "Gelem-Gelem 2009-10" will end with the last scheduled training activity, a workshop "Gardening" which starts on May 10th, which is expected to attend 10 and will last 36 hours.
