"Inspiring Women", the starting engine of the new civic center of Costa Teguise

Olivia Duque inaugurated the new Civic Center of Costa Teguise that has served as a "recognition of 11 inspiring women of the municipality"

March 25 2023 (09:33 WET)
Updated in March 25 2023 (15:37 WET)
Inauguration ceremony of the Costa Teguise Civic Center
Inauguration ceremony of the Costa Teguise Civic Center

"Today we want to value the inspiration, talent, the capacity for overcoming and entrepreneurship of women who live among us, who, just as they are great professionals, can also be great unknowns." This is one of the phrases with which the Councilor for Urban Planning of the Teguise City Council, Olivia Duque, started the inaugural act of the new civic center of Costa Teguise and that has also served to recognize 11 inspiring women from the municipality of Teguise.  

Olivia Duque herself acted as master of ceremonies of an act that is projected to the future "as a way to establish synergies and contacts between all those neighbors who, due to their professions or their community activity, discover that there is a hopeful future in which we all add up."  

In this regard, Duque announced that "one of my purposes is to create a center for female initiatives" in the new civic center and that, according to her, "it will serve to exchange opinions, do workshops, train in various topics that concern and interest women."

The Teguise councilor invited the women recognized in this first edition to be "the locomotives of this future project", because as she explained in her speech "now it is our turn to embrace talent, creativity and effort", fleeing, according to her argument, from the "radicalism that criticizes with the desire to destroy, that condemns, that divides and that protects mediocrity."

Duque, in a plea in favor of local talent, came to ask the women of the municipality "not to abandon their land" and asked that "if they go to study abroad, please, return", since, as she asserted, "their town needs them", because "they are the fortunate daughters of this land."  

"I believe that women have an enormous responsibility as members of a conejera society to whom - with great generosity - the opportunity has been given to represent their land in what makes us proud; its landscape and our cultural values. If we join these factors, we can generate great economic and social changes."

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"Inspiring Women" 2023

 

Ico Arrocha, a writer with 6 books on the market, who as a nurse was a pioneer in demanding that this professional figure be incorporated into schools.

Ana and María Betancort Cejas, two entrepreneurial sisters who, despite the uncertainty that the pandemic entailed, opened two stores in La Villa de Teguise: "La Chata Sabores de Lanzarote" with which they pay tribute to the island's gastronomic and artisanal product and "La Palmera" in which they sell clothing, jewelry and footwear with which they support Canarian brands.

Amaira Cedrés, after being widowed with two children, reinvented herself at the School of Fisheries with a marine vocation that came from her family. She has worked for several shipping companies in the duality of hostess and merinera in a sector where male presence prevails. She aspired to more and has created the project "Amaria Pamelas".

Lai Torres, high-level athlete: 4 times World Champion of J80, being the only woman on her boat. World runner-up in 2012 and 3 times Spanish champion. She sells her own clothing brand at www.onyxay.es and has been an audiovisual producer for brands as relevant as Freixenet, Audi or Estrella Damm.

Women's Handball Club "Blanquiazul Tahíche", one of the pioneering clubs in taking its youth academy to the top of national, regional and island competition. For decades, it has ensured that its players are ambassadors of the social values ​​that sport instills: respect, companionship, sportsmanship and teamwork.

Vanessa Marrero, economist and director of the School of Economic Tranquility based in Costa Teguise, but with global projection through her online platform. Pioneer in Spain with her Young Entrepreneurs School project. Her recipe is to apply the gender perspective to finance based on domestic management.

Cristina Marsoc, multidisciplinary artist, cultural educator, teacher at the Pancho Lasso School, and member of the Cochinilla project in the schools of Mala and Guatiza. She has made the Plastic Arts a way of expressing the disabled of Adislan.  

Estefanía González, went from sports specialist to promoter of Canarian culture with her gofio, mojo and rosetas workshops for tourists and students. She extrapolates her creations outside of Lanzarote.

Sherezade Morales, painter of the landscape and island customs. Her emotional stroke is a tribute to her land and its people.

Rafaela Martín, mother of 8 children, 18 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. At 90 years old she continues to work the land.

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