Saturday, 04 February 2012

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Novedades Agrícolas, Compromised SME Award. CODESPA Awards XIII Edition

 
His Royal Highness, the Prince of Asturias presented in Madrid the Solidarity Awards CODESPA last December 21st, 2009.
These awards try to acknowledge publicly the efforts that Corporations, SMEs and group of workers carry out to help developing countries.
 
This year CODESPA has introduced a new category, the Compromised SME. Novedades Agrícolas, S.A., established in Andalucia and Murcia has been awarded this prize for its project "Vocational agricultural training for children and youngsters in the orphange Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos in Honduras", aimed at teaching, training and providing opportunities to enter the labor market, and to improve the diet and health of the children in the orphanage.
 
Novedades Agrícolas provided a small greenhouse with irrigation system and an open-field dripping system for the production of vegetables under an intensive agriculture frame. They also provided the training for the children and the expert so that the project could continue autonomously later. 600 children have benefited from the vegetables since 2006, when the project started and the crops are now bigger than in the beginning.

The prize was received by Mr. Miguel Otón Martos, vice-president and CEO of Novedades Agricolas.

(Fundación CODESPA)