THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 10 - 13 ISSUE NO. 1799
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26 Dec 2019 - 1 Jan 2020
MORE RESIDENTS BACK IN WORK VELEZ-MALAGA’S employment scheme put 42 out-of-work residents in jobs. Eighteen women and five men improved their employment prospects this year with training courses during the Vives Emplea programme promoted by Velez-Malaga Town Hall and Accion contra el Hambra (Action against Hunger). “All had different professional profiles and were aged between 25 and 59,” said VelezMalaga’s Business and Employment councillor Maria Jose Roberto. Of these, seven women and two men later found stable jobs, she added. Since March 2018, a total of 101 people joined in the Vives Emplea programme, 72 per cent of them women. “The results have been really good,” Roberto said. “Forty-two people - 35 women and seven men - are in work and others took training courses.” The programme consisted of group and individual sessions that included visits to businesses, events and activities helping participants to improve their employability with input from companies and professionals. Ana Rey, who runs Accion contra el Hambre’s social inclusion programme, announced that 2020 will see the launch of Escuelas de Empleo (Employment Schools), a new programme to improve participants’ employment prospects.
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CHRISTMAS SUCCESS MORE than 1,000 people took part in Motril’s San Silvestre Christmas race.
SAN SILVESTRE: Families and friends ran in fancy dress. ALTHOUGH this had to be postponed by two days, there was a great response, said the town hall’s Sports councillor Daniel Ortega Moreno with 300 more runners than last year. This was the last big sporting event of the year and as always, it was remarkable for the large number of local runners and athletes as well as the families and
groups of friends taking part in fancy dress who filled the town centre’s streets with colour. Motril’s mayor, Luisa Maria Garcia Chamorra congratulated all the town hall departments and volunteers who organised the race. There were special thanks for the town’s professional and amateur sports-
people who, Garcia Chamorra said, “elevate all the events they attend,” as well as the hundreds who were running in fancy dress. The races, run over different distances for children and adults, were held between 6pm and 8pm, with the competitive race won by El Amrani in the feminine category and Benamar Djellal in the masculine.
ROYAL POSTMEN DUE TODAY PRIOR to the arrival of the Three Kings on January 6, the Royal Postmen are collecting letters from Motril’s children. They will be present from 6pm this evening, December 26, in Plaza de la Aurora in the town centre. “We wanted to make a difference, so the Postmen will be more involved with the Press and media,” announced Inmaculada Torres Alaminos, councillor responsible for Citizens’ Participation. She also reassured children who have not yet written to the Kings that they can write their letters in the Plaza this evening. The councillor also thanked the Motril’s Club de Vehiculos Romanticos for providing vehicles so that the Royal Postmen could tour Motril before picking up the all-important mail. Torres Alaminos announced that the town hall’s Equality department was also collaborating with the event with its ‘Equal in play, equal in presents’ slogan, highlighting the need to buy gifts that are neither sexist nor warlike.