Red Cross trains rural women in technology and digital sectors
Red Cross launches the #EmpleandoDigital project in the province that will provide training to 10 rural women in innovative sectors such as digital transformation or As Eva Nuño, Coordinator of the Employment Area of the Red Cross Cuenca, has told us, this pandemic year has highlighted the importance of digital knowledge and the effectiveness of remote work in these types of sectors, which is why they want to bring them closer together rural women so that they can start their own projects and also help fight depopulation. It will be a blended, practical training with individual advice.
They will have the FABLAB Mobile Digital Manufacturing Laboratory to develop practical training in the places where the students of this training reside, who will learn to handle 3D printers, printing plotters or laser engraving and cutting.
Women interested in participating can send their registration forms until June 6 and from all of them 10 will be selected. Nuño affirms that there are very limited places, and is having a great reception, therefore they hope that it will be successful and can be repeated. in the future with more women. This is the first edition in Cuenca of a project that may have a great future projection.
Through this project they intend to adapt to new social realities, especially after these months in which it has become clear that there are digital deficiencies in many places, but at the same time it has been shown that we have been able to learn digital skills that we they make life easier and can be our way of life in the future.