The subdelegate of the Government of Spain to the Community of Madrid, Pilar Trinidad, met today with the president of the José María de Llanos Foundation, Juan de Dios Morán, and visited some of the facilities in which it carries out its social action.
Among them, the School of Hospitality of the South, through which 300 people are unemployed every year and which carries out its specialized training activity in the HORECA sector (Hotels, Restaurants and Cafeterias).
Pilar Trinidad also toured the Madrid EMMA Women’s Space, launched by the Foundation in 2013 and dedicated to the reception, accompaniment, individual attention and training of women in situations of vulnerability, especially victims of gender violence.
Foundation goals
The José María de Llanos Foundation was born more than 60 years ago to give impetus to the social action that Father Llanos developed since his arrival at the Pozo del Tio Raimundo in 1955: to offer the population opportunities to improve their training and education, their social and employment integration and, ultimately, their lives and those of their own.
Currently, the Foundation has different centers and intervention projects, in addition to those mentioned, dedicated to social action and educational and formative action such as the “1st of May” Center for Secondary Education and Vocational Training that hosts more than 500 students, or the “Borja” Children’s School that serves more than 120 children from 0-3 years.
The José María de Llanos Foundation continues to fulfil the objectives with which it was born 60 years ago: improving the educational/formative care of the youngest people, to provide them with instruments that will help them to improve and aspire to the achievement of their goals; advancing in the eradication of discrimination and inequality between women and men; improving the internal management of their centers so that they are sustainable over time and efficient and respectful of the environment; promoting technological and digital advances and improvements so that people who have more difficulties have more and better means; and ultimately, offering opportunities and tools for the promotion of transformative life projects.