The Cabildo de Tenerife highlights the importance of community development projects developed by third-sector entities such as Factoría Social, which seek to “reinforce the neighborhood associative fabric and the alliance between associations.” The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, has visited the headquarters in Icod de los Vinos of this association that “contributes through training actions to the empowerment of different groups in its environment”.
The three projects that Factoría Social has underway from the municipality of Icodense “promote community development, generate collective actions and seek solutions to common problems on the island.” These are initiatives that are launched “through the different subsidy lines that have already been paid by the Citizen Participation and Diversity area.”
The objective of this support is to promote social and citizen participation, as well as to attend to diversity and promote associationism. Factoría Social has presented a total of three projects, thus becoming one of the 73 entities benefiting from the distribution of more than 638,000 euros that have been allocated to defray the commitment of groups and associations for community work.
During the meeting, Gugliotta recognized the effort that the association has made to cover the insular area in many of its actions: “They reach vulnerable groups and they do so by giving them tools so that they can undertake in an autonomous and active way.”
The first Social Factory project, called Network Neighborhood, is aimed at all neighborhood associations in Tenerife and seeks to strengthen the associative fabric and improve coexistence. The second proposal is the creation of an Experimental Observatory of Citizen Participation in Puerto de la Cruz. Its third project, Alisios, focuses on the elderly or people in a particularly vulnerable situation who reside in 14 municipalities in the north of the island.
