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The Cajamar Foundation sponsors strategic actions, educational and social that they boost the rural world of Gran Canaria, worth 40.000 EUR.
President Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Antonio Morales, and of the Cajamar Foundation Canarias, John Sardinia, They signed an agreement to promote the primary sector and food sovereignty of the island along the current mandate, through sponsorship worth 40.000 annual euros of educational and social strategic actions that promote the rural world.
In this way, Cajamar supports activities that bring agricultural products from Gran Canaria to youth, as the training program for school gardens, currently composed of 40 colleges, by the Ministry of Food Sovereignty sponsored by the entity contributes to the installation and maintenance of gardens in schools, as well as the training of their teachers.
Another educational project that will benefit from this agreement is the insular program Meet La Granja, which will allow more than 4.000 school of all municipalities come into direct contact with the agricultural world through visits to the facilities of the Experimental Agricultural Farm Arucas, where they learn to prepare seedbeds, including technical workshops led by the Cabildo.
Antonio Morales (i) and Juan Cerdeña (d).
The foundation will also sponsor the agricultural markets that weekends are held in Arucas, St. lucia, Artenara y Moya, and the Insular Livestock Exhibition that gathers each year a 25.000 people to watch closely the heads of selected cattle of the island and participate in workshops and activities organized during the three-day event.
Also, There are social projects that will have the economic contribution of Cajamar, How is it Practical Training program for people with disabilities, currently underway in the La Farm 14 Beneficiaries who are gardening and horticulture in order to achieve their employment.
This line of sponsorship, initiated by Cajamar in 2013, It is a support to the sector Morales wanted to express appreciation and, now, It may be renewed automatically at the end of each year until the end of 2019.
It will also contribute to the promotion of the brand Gran Canaria Quality, aimed at promoting label attached to this guarantee local products that currently are black cochino, Honey, olive oil extra virgin and aquaculture products and artisanal fisheries.
Will accommodate other promotional activities such as Night wine event that the council wants to develop in all municipalities in collaboration with the Denomination of Origin Wines of Gran Canaria and derived from the Strategic Plan of the Primary Sector of Gran Canaria or proposed by the Insular Council Primary Sector, to be set up soon, as well as other programs covered by the Training Plan 2016.