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Opened Two Employment Workshops Torrijos Nursery

Torrijos, Spain, May 27, 2013 - The Mayor of Torrijos, Juan José Gómez-Hidalgo, together with the Councillor for Employment, Yolanda Brown and other elected officials of the government team has received this morning the President of the Council of Toledo, Arturo Garcia-Blight and Representative Employment Promotion and Economic Development, José Luis Rivas, who have gone to the facilities of the new business incubator "Manuel Diaz Ruiz" to officially open job shops "Sebastian de Almonacid" and "Gregorio Sanchez de Rivera" , cooking and sociocultural monitor respectively, which are being carried out at this center for a little over a month.

"There are more than 960 hours between training and practice in these two disciplines, and socio-cultural cuisine, which we understand may have an interesting departure in the labor market in the medium to short term, are two real niche markets and so we have chosen these issues, "he stressed Gómez-Hidalgo, who also thanked the cooperation both of Toledo and the Community Board to have been able to launch these employment workshops. On the other hand, the mayor has made reference to the site where they are being developed, the Business Incubator "Manuel Diaz Ruiz", that the City of Torrijos is placing value "to also business projects, innovative, technology-related , including international companies come to settle in the nursery, we have selected one of the projects in the first phase, three applications have been presented, there are still two selection stages until the end of the year and we are convinced that from now this Business Incubator is to become the economic heart of our city, "said Mayor torrijeño.

For his part, the President of the County Council wanted to show his appreciation to the City of Torrijos and specifically the person of the Mayor "for doing a project long dreamed reality for him and his administration, as is establishing a nursery Business, "said Garcia-Blight, who also remarked that" Torrijos is one of the most enterprising of the province of Toledo, perhaps their geographical location, their configuration as a municipality was decisive for many years at a push business and perhaps there are few in the province of Toledo, this same business incubator, these workshops and subjects will be taught give a good account of it, "said President of the provincial institution.

Arturo Garcia-Blight has stressed that these workshops are intended more to offer temporary work, as it puts a major emphasis on training and in the preparation of the 20 students who participate in them for entrepreneurship in some activities such as the kitchen, leisure and free time very significant within the tourism industry, one of the great powers of our country and in the province of Toledo also plays an important role, given its rich heritage.

The visit ended at the restaurant "El Olivar de Santa Teresa" Torrijos, where the President of the Council has been able to see first hand the place where cooking workshop students will conduct their practices.

The budget needed to be able to operate these workshops which will run until October 31 amounted to 277,497 euros.

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