The El Despertar Federation of Women's Associations received €18,000 yesterday from La Caixa's Obra Social ('social foundation') to finance 'an ambitious programme' aimed at teaching carers of dependent relatives in the rural environment to 'guarantee that they work as efficiently as possible and within the demands of the law'. The programme was among the 256 such ideas selected by the building society throughout Spain. The head of El Despertar, Mari Luz Rueda (l.), said that her organization had found that the carers with which it deals had very little physical or psychological support for a very difficult job they felt obliged to carry out. Present at the meeting during which the subsidy was the Regional Director for La Caixa, Francisco Molina (r.) and Jimena Councillor for Social Services Mercedes Segovia (c.), as well as the manager of the local branch of La Caixa, Alberto Piña.>The Obra Social La Caixa selects social projects every year from ideas and plans of a large variety of organizations throughout the country. This year, there was a total budget of over €4,000,000 to be spread among 256 such projects, 49 of them in Andalucía, for a regional total of €786,700.
La Caixa's initiative began in 2000 and has contributed over €41 million to socio-educational and health projects all over Spain.
El Despertar is a federation of women's associations from all over the Campo de Gibraltar and deals principally with the problems of women who live in the rural environment of the Campo. This programme is aimed specifically at those men and women who are charged with caring for elderly relatives. It includes activities that will serve as support to both the carers and the cared, incorporating cognitive stimulation (memory, attention, practices, gnosis, calculation and language exercises), workshops on self-care, autonomy and daily activity, for the cared; and workshops for non-professional carers that include such essential aspects as, for example, learning how to lift a patient without harm to either, the process of ageing, hygiene and sanitary procedures, etc,
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