Caritas Valencia and Taruga Creaciones launch BecArte: solidarity training

• Nine participants from Cáritas and Proyecto Hombre Valencia have taken part in a mural painting workshop by Taruga Creaciones as a way of finding work, with the aim of training them in a trade that multiplies their employability options.
• Two members of the Caritas Pre-employment Programme have won a 3-month grant provided by the company Taruga Creaciones to make painting their future profession.
• The grant will also give them the added possibility of belonging to the network of Taruga muralists in Spain, and thus get a job opportunity.
  The children’s centre Mare de Déu dels Desemparats i dels Innocents de Torrent (València) has been the scenario this weekend of a day of solidarity in which art has been the main protagonist. Nine people between 19 and 46 years of age with artistic interests, from groups at risk of social exclusion and members of Cáritas Valencia and Proyecto Hombre Valencia programmes, took part in a workshop.
  Proyecto Hombre Valencia has participated in a mural painting workshop aimed at improving the employability options of their students. This is a solidarity-based training with a real commitment to the future, using art as an engine for progress.
  Among all the participants, the Taruga Creaciones team awarded two 3-month scholarships to
  Marcelo Sebastián and Henry Giovanni, a 46 year old Argentinean and 28 years old Colombian with dependent children, who have been several years in the Caritas Pre-Labour Programme. The aim is none other than to give them
  a second chance, and that is why the scholarships will consist of practical and theoretical training, continuous counselling and continuous counselling with the possibility of belonging to the Taruga network of artists.
  Taruga valued the resolutive capacity of the two scholarship holders, their teamwork, concentration on a common goal and working under pressure.
  The project, which has as its message “painting second chances”, is promoted by both entities with the desire to improve the employability options for particularly vulnerable groups.
  The training workshop, led by David Murcia, CEO of Taruga Creaciones, consisted of a first part of theory and a second part of practical exercises, in which a large 10×6 metre mural was painted on one of the walls of the outdoor patio of the Mare de Déu centre for minors.
  The design, created by Taruga Creaciones, is a perfect representation of the Valencian Community: a window overlooking the Mediterranean and symbolising freedom, fresh air and the renewed breeze that second chances bring.
• A mural that will decorate one of the walls of the Mare de Déu dels Desemparats i dels Innocents juvenile detention centre in Torrent (Valencia), thanks to the BecArte initiative. A first collaboration that is intended to become a long-term project.