"Vicente has left us, but his mark remains and will remain forever on this island." With these words, Julio Santiago Obeso, psychiatrist and founder of El Cribo, wanted to pay tribute to one of the main benefactors of the NGO, Vicente Taberner Carsi, after learning of his death.
"When Vicente Taberner Carsi came from his Valencian homeland before 1990 and joined the Psychiatry Team in the Brief Hospitalization Unit of the Hospital of Lanzarote, he saw that it was essential that after hospital discharge patients could follow a good rehabilitation program," recalls Julio Santiago.
"But psychiatric care was very much in its infancy in Lanzarote and there were no resources," adds the founder of El Cribo, who explains that at that time the association "was an NGO that was beginning to work on the rehabilitation of the mentally ill with very good intentions, but also with very few resources."
"When life offered Vicente favorable economic possibilities, he wanted to share it with El Cribo and subsidized the creation of the Screen Printing and Pad Printing Occupational Workshop, which we logically named "Taberner Special Employment Center", and which continues to operate at full capacity today, after having helped in the rehabilitation of hundreds and hundreds of psychiatric patients on our island," he highlights.
"Vicente made his wife Anne and later, when they came into the world, his children, aware of the help to El Cribo and the mentally ill. Thus, this family has left a mark that the citizens of Lanzarote should always be grateful for," claims Julio Santiago Obeso, who wanted to publicly thank the Taberner family for their "generous and selfless" help and dedicate a "farewell forever" to Vicente.
