The new computer equipment that shapes the computer room was the first stop of an intense day in which, among other things, the students of the gardening course stopped being so to become qualified personnel in the matter. Monitors and students from the occupational workshops acted as guides for visitors in facilities they know well.
The occupational workshops for patients who come to the association become a therapy for their ailments. In one of these workshops, students, affected by mental disability, learn the techniques of computer design and stamping, among other aspects of screen printing. From this Wednesday, the works elaborated by the Taberner Screen Printing Occupational Workshop will be acquired by the Tourist Centers for their commercialization. This is what the president of El Cribo, Jesús María Fernández, and the CEO of the CACTS, Carlos Espino, agreed in the agreement that both signed.
A further step by this association that tries to help mental patients and insert them into the labor market. But one of the great struggles of its members, more than 800 between patients, family members, volunteers and professionals, is to get a residence for the mentally ill in Lanzarote, a claim for years, which never ends up arriving. This Wednesday, the Minister of Social Services of the Cabildo, Joaquín Caraballo announced that instructions have already been given for the preparation of the specifications with which the construction of the future health center will be put out to tender.
"I am not going to assure you that it will be ready within a year or two," Joaquín Caraballo acknowledged, but in his opinion "the important thing is to lay the necessary foundations so that work can begin in 2008 and this residence will fill the deficit of internment and residential areas on the island," concluded the councilor.
