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Mayor White, Pedro Luis Molina, and the Councillor for Social, Cultural Affairs and Equal have closed this morning the sewing and Recycling Apparel Association taught by Abraham Project in collaboration with the City of White.

The event was attended by President of the Association, Nuria Garcia, who thanked the support from the city council and has confirmed the launch of new workshops in the city.

Twelve women from the city were part of the workshop consisted of 40 hours of theory and practice in which the participants have improved their knowledge of tailoring and dressmaking.

The first blanqueño mayor has said that the City Council will continue to support such initiatives seeking socio-professional integration of vulnerable groups and improving the environment as with the collection of waste that makes Abraham Project in White, is He has avoided the emission into the atmosphere of over 220,000 kilos of CO2, equivalent to more than 11 million trees to absorb CO2 in a day or 32,000 out of circulation for a day cars.

According to the calculator AERESS (http://reutilizayevitaco2.aeress.org)

The association manages the collection of this waste by 10 containers located in White and White Station.

In 2014 it has been collected in the city a total of 20,365 kilos of waste textiles, footwear and toys.

Therefore, the selective collection of clothing, shoes and toys are done through containers association has available to citizens in the municipality.

After the association as an authorized manager he is responsible for recovering such waste through recycling and reuse.

This enables waste collection activities that the association develops Abraham Project in the municipality of charge: Donation of toys at Christmas campaign, occupational training program, recreation and leisure and environmental awareness program in collaboration with centers and educational associations.

Since 2011 we have carried out 4 workshops on socio-occupational training in collaboration with the City.

These have been and Sewing Shoe Repair in different editions.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca