| Starting next Monday, June 15, interested parties will be able to provide the documentation required to use these facilities | The Cartagena Business Nursery for Women will provisionally host the businesses of women entrepreneurs in the municipality that have been affected by the health crisis of COVID-19.
This has been advanced this Friday by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, on a visit she has made to the municipal facilities together with the councilor for Equality, David Martínez, and the president of AMEP, Nuria Castillo.As Castejón has detailed, starting next Monday, June 15, those businesswomen who want to make use of the Business Incubator, located in Plaza Severo Ochoa of the Mandarache commercial park, will be able to provide the documentation required to be able to use these installations.This initiative is included in the Decree on Urgent Measures of the Business Nursery for Women in Cartagena, which the municipal government reported on at the last municipal plenary session.
For this, a Commission will be in charge of assessing the economic situation of each candidate.
The beneficiaries will be exempt from the payment of fees and may settle in the business incubator, which has furnished offices, fiber optics, different meeting rooms and multipurpose rooms, as well as water, electricity, cleaning and concierge services."We will adapt the facilities so that no one is left out," said the mayor, while reminding that the period that was initially established for the beneficiary businesswomen to use these municipal offices will be six months, although at the end of this time A balance of the situation of the company will be made to analyze if they need to extend this period."I want to send a message of encouragement to all businesswomen who are thinking of closing down after this health crisis and tell them that we are not going to drop them.
We cannot allow women entrepreneurs to fall apart because they have been the soul of our municipality and the entire Government will work to help them, "Castejón stressed during the visit.For her part, the president of AMEP has thanked the Department of Equality and the mayor for their work and work to support the businesswomen of Cartagena.
"You were at our side from the first day of the decree of the State of Alarm", he remarked.Nuria Castillo has advanced that more than a dozen AMEP associates have already shown interest in being located in the Nursery and has encouraged those businesswomen who may need it to send their request.
"The requirements are very simple, and the procedures and documentation very easy to carry out and obtain, avoiding bureaucracy as much as possible," he pointed out.
"In this pandemic, women have taken a step backward in the professional sphere, especially due to reconciliation issues, and we have to return to the front line," she concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena