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The SEF grant has amounted to 163,000 euros and has allowed the participants to obtain a certificate of professionalism that increases their options of finding employment in the sector
A total of 15 Lorquí unemployed under the age of 30 and enrolled in the Youth Guarantee program have been prepared for one year to work in nurseries, gardens and garden centers with a community program that alternates training with paid employment.
This is a mixed program of employment and training that has received a grant of 163,009 euros from the Ministry of Economic Development, Tourism and Employment, through the Regional Employment and Training Service (SEF), and co-funded by the European Social Fund .
Participants today received a certificate of professionalism, which accredits their skills in gardening, in an event attended by SEF's general director, Alejandro Zamora, and the mayor of Lorquí, Joaquín Hernández.
With this accreditation, these 15 young people now have the opportunity to enter the labor market as agricultural laborers, gardening laborers and nursery workers, or opt for self-employment by creating a gardening company.
Zamora stressed the importance of these programs "which allow young unemployed not only to train in a specific activity, but also to have contact with the labor market, developing paid work, as well as to obtain a certificate of professionalism with validity throughout the country" .
To obtain this certification, students have completed a total of 1,920 hours, distributed in 480 for theory and 1,440 for practices, with which they have acquired the knowledge and skills of gardening professionals.
The practices have developed in the same municipality performing environmental recovery work, maintenance and improvement of the natural spaces of the locality, as well as the maintenance of the municipal nursery created in the previous phase of the project.
Evolution of employment in Lorquí
Previously, Alejandro Zamora held a meeting with the mayor of Lorquí, Joaquín Hernández, in which analyzed the employment data recorded by the municipality.
In particular, the unemployment has fallen in this locality in 97 people in the last twelve months, when registering a decrease of 14 percent.
With regard to job creation, the number of affiliates has increased by 273 people in the last year, an increase of 7.5 percent.
The SEF and the City of Lorquí will develop throughout this year several programs aimed at boosting employment in the municipality, such as the project Local Public Youth Guarantee, with a grant of 20,000 euros, will allow the recruitment Of three unemployed young people for the modernization and improvement of urban quality.
Source: CARM
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