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This week, Águilas’ Councillor for Gardens, Noelia Ruano, visited ‘Los Jardines’ where replanting work has been carried out thanks to the Experiential Programme ‘New life for the old municipal rubbish tip and its surroundings, Phase III’, an employment and training project aimed at unemployed people and funded by the Ministry of Labour through the Regional Employment and Training Service (SEF).

 

This programme combines theoretical training with practical and productive work, allowing participants to acquire professional qualifications and real work experience in public and social utility activities, while also providing them with an employment contract and financial remuneration. The main objective is to improve their employability and facilitate their integration into the labour market.

 

The experiential programme, which is being run over a year, has enabled the recruitment of 25 people and is structured around two closely related training specialities: gardening and cleaning.

 

During the programme, participants are introducing native species, both trees and shrubs, contributing to the environmental and landscape improvement of the municipality.

 

The species that have been planted in this area are seven tipuana trees, 11 jacaranda trees and 12 mulberry trees, an action that is especially important after the string of acts of vandalism that have been directed at the town’s trees over the past couple of years, with a person or group of people suspected of deliberately trying to kill off several species of tree in various parts of the municipality.

 

According to Águilas Town Council, this initiative reinforces “the commitment to the environmental recovery of degraded areas and to promoting employment and training among groups with greater difficulties in accessing the labour market”.

 

 

Image: Ayuntamiento de Águilas