During the jubilation of the International Women´s Day , Asocolflores exalted the effective right , improvement of livelihood conditions , and conditions of equality of the women who grind in the flower business sector .
" cleaning woman play a pass role in the management , preservation , and sweetening of the social and natural Washington . They are the vital understructure of education in the households , and they promote respect , equality , and fairness , and the fundamental footing of sustainable development " said Augusto Solano , CEO of Asocolflores .
Solano " exalt the effective right , sex equality and , mostly , the body of work to alter the paradigm which have prevented recognizing their huge contribution to the development of residential area and country " .
The country´s flower export give every yr over 200,000 courtly task , 65 % of which are in the hands of women , mostly heads of households .
Thus , the Colombian floriculture contributes with 25 % of the stately rural job held by women in Colombia . Throughout the years , this condition has characterized the ingredient that affect the development of women and their families : education , employability , living consideration , wellness , and welfare .
The Colombian flower gardening manufacture propose its make for women proficient grooming and coaching job opportunity , provision of schooling supply for their fry to prevent schoolhouse dropout , and allocation of university scholarships ; access s to resourcefulness put up by different entity for acquisition of new housing , refurbishing of subsist housing , or build new housing on their own nation ; leisure and cultural activities that teach respectable habits , recognize gift and promoting regard for women ; and furtherance of safe and healthy workings spaces that help protect their rights , amongst which are maternal quality , with nursing rooms , and disease bar campaigns .
It is worth remembering that at the conclusion of 2024 the Colombian Flower growers receive the " Good Practices for Acknowledging Sustainable Development Award " from the Colombia / Global Compact internet , as well as the XPosible Award " .
This is how the Colombia / Global Compact web rewarded Asocolflores ´ efforts to comply with the innovation criterion , quality direction impact , sustainability in time , and country apt issues , through its gender equivalence and woman empowerment endeavors .
On the other hand , Xposible was also granted to Asocolflores . It is one of the most crucial recognition in the rural area , given to organizations that generate a convinced impact on productivity . It was grant to Asocolflores for contributing to closing social gaps and generate suitable weather condition for woman to have access , remain , and build up themselves in the flower growing sector .
Through " bloom Together " , Asocolflores coaches and advises its member companies to generate and strengthen suitable conditions for the entree , permanence , and exploitation of women in the floriculture action , consolidating a sector costless of sex - free-base ferocity .
" Blooming Together " conjoin " educate Peace in the Family " , one of the most of import program developed in the farming diligence , which has been developed to build up a culture of pacification within the flower companies , their phratry , and the rural communities .
carry out 25 year ago , it has been able-bodied to make its participants reflect about societal relationships and the ordinary handling of tensions , dissension , and struggles within families , changing trigger-happy behaviour for peaceable and creative alternatives , especially with regard to women .
" To acknowledge the value of women is not a bare moral duty , as many make-believe , nor a solemnisation or a newsworthiness newspaper headline . It is a dominant need to ensure that sex equality is not just a tendency , but an obligation in the wholesome exploitation of state . The time has come to work more for woman from the different social , economical , and environmental levels " , conclude Solano .
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