The new public facility with an investment of more than 600,000 euros, and offers women lumbrerenses over 900 square meters with new technology classrooms, gymnasium, auditorium and a Specialized Care Center for Victims of Domestic Violence .
The new center will host training activities, workshops and cultural events aimed at women, and also constituted as a venue for women's associations of the locality and to the council's Equal Opportunities.
Thursday February 24, 2011.
The Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, accompanied by the Minister for Social Policy, Women and Migration, Joaquín Bascuñana, inaugurated this morning the new Women's Center of Puerto Lumbreras, "that will link all educational, cultural, educational and entertainment aimed at women of the locality. "
The new public facility has been built through an investment of more than 600,000 euros, and offers more than 900 square meters for the development of cultural, recreational and educational programs for women in the locality.
The Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, explained that this is a "new infrastructure so far lacking in the municipality, located besides the different associations of women in the county (Mujeres Amigas Without Borders, Foreign Women ' New Hope 'and Housewives' Peñas Blancas'), will support all the activities promoted by the Department of Equal Opportunities will also be located in these new facilities. "
In this sense, the center is equipped with a classroom of new technologies and other 4 classrooms and workshop for the development of the initiatives promoted by the council, such as embroidery workshops, cooking, languages, and training programs to promote employment and training of women lumbrerense.
The center also features an auditorium with capacity for over 300 women in the training events that will be promoted as well as conferences and round tables.
On the other hand, the facilities of the new Women's Center of Puerto Lumbreras incorporate 7 offices in which the council is located on Equal Opportunities, as well as associations of local women, and the new Centre for the Care of Victims of Gender Violence, with which "we offer various support services and individual counseling to all women who suffer or have suffered some form of abuse."
Finally, the Mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, concluded by explaining that "the new Center for Women in Puerto Lumbreras can bring together in one place the various municipal services in the area of women, as well as employment-related initiatives , training, education or the leisure of women lumbrerense. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras