Leader
Juan Alegre
Definition of the project
This solidarity organic farming project consists of two linked phases whose purpose is to enhance professional qualifications y facilitate the employability of people in situations of social exclusion providing training in organic farming and providing support to students for subsequent integration into associative companies producing organic products.
The project is carried out through an agreement with City Councils interested in its execution with beneficiaries from their municipality, who will collaborate in the management of the phases, in the selection and guardianship of the students and also participating in its financing.
Objectives
Social and labor integration of people in situations of exclusion.
Actions/activities for execution
Training and employment for people in situations of exclusion in organic farming.
Impact/Results
During 2017, the Agrosolidaris project made training in organic agriculture possible for 25 people in a situation of social exclusion. The students, previously selected by our collaborating partners, received in the first phase of the project a basic agricultural technician course for 4 months (200 hours of theoretical training and practices in the field), training in job search techniques and support to entrepreneurship (100 hours) and complementary training (which includes visits to ecological companies and cooperatives).
In the second stage of the project, a specialization course in product production and marketing was taught, lasting 8 months. The focus during this period was on tutored agricultural production, business management and marketing (40 hours) and, finally, cooperative training (20 hours).
It should be noted that this year it was possible to advance in the last phase of Agrosolidaris, which focuses on support for cooperative employment, which aims to facilitate the labor integration of students trained in the first stage, providing them with technical support for the constitution of associated work cooperatives for the production of fruits and vegetables with ecological techniques or marketing cooperatives, and also alternatively for self-employment .