Fundación Personas Guardo in the program “Personas Extraordinarias” with Cristina Camell
Beatriz Diez, Jose Miguel Fontecha, Carlos Martin and Jose Manuel Sanchez are workers of the CEE Fundación Personas Guardo who have participated on January 8 in the program “Vamos a Ver” of RTVCYL accompanied by Maite Paris from the Support Unit and Cristina Loures, responsible for the Textile Workshop.
Sewing, creating patterns, designing or making work clothes or equipment in general, without forgetting design and printing, are tasks in whichmen and women contribute their arteveryday with care and dedication, putting in each stitch the necessary thread to respond to orders and demands of companies, groups and institutions.
This workshop is considered a bit like the germ of ADECAS and Fundación Personas Guardo. It started as an Occupational Workshop and with time, after the specialization and good work of the people, it became a Special Employment Center. It was with the first march of ADECAS when the first machinery was acquired with the proceeds (3 million of the old pesetas).
It started in 88, being one of the largest companies in Guardo, as far as the number of workers is concerned and collaborating with 5 textile cooperatives or department stores.
His works have been present in artistic projects such as the PIO (Iberian Orchestral Project) of the OSCYL (Symphonic Orchestra of Castilla y León), being able to be seen in a tour of different parts of Spain and Portugal and lately in the closing of the 200 years of the Prado Museum.
It is an inclusive job, because its workers have some kind of disability, but also, because of the place, it has an added value which is the rural environment. Now that there is so much talk about the emptying of Spain, these jobs are very important, because they are jobs that fight for the settlement of the population in the rural areas, especially when people with these characteristics might have an added disadvantage to develop an ordinary job.
Another fact to highlight is that the textile field has traditionally been understood as a women’s work and in our case it is mostly men who have carried it out and are currently carrying it out. In addition, the Special Employment Center has an integral support unit.
A textile workshop as a thread for labor inclusion
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