Every year, January brings us to take stock of the past and projecting into the future our desires and longings. But this is different Aprodisca 2011. In 2011 the bank for 25 years, and therefore, in addition to being a source of joy and celebration, it becomes necessary that reflection helps us to highlight the achievements and learnings achieved, and that Moreover, it helps to define, redefine or strengthen us in our goals and find ways to bring us there.

We have not stopped since that in 1986 a group of parents who created an occupational workshop for people with intellectual disabilities. We created the job center, the special employment center, home-residence, protect the foundation … We have developed therapeutic services, rehabilitation, employment, training, housing, leisure and support employment in the mainstream companies. Our mission was and is to promote quality of life and social and labor integration of persons.

In this long journey we have expanded our horizons solidarity because we realized that social exclusion has many different faces: physical disabilities, mental illness, poverty, immigration, etc. …. We realize that what really matters is to remedy this and to fight social exclusion and not the why of it.

To achieve this, we had to find the necessary resources, and when they found them, we had to learn to be independent and to build them ourselves. Handling industrial services graphic arts, crafts, gardening, washing cars, cleaning industry, and our commitment to the future: agriculture, food and organic food. Activities that have allowed us to continue with our social project.

We have achieved things that we had not imagined in our origins. The authorities have declared Aprodisca Public Utility Company, have rewarded our social history, we have achieved the employment of ordinary people in the company, we have the example of companies that inspire future …

But all this would not have been possible without all the people who helped us, all the people from inside or outside the organization who believe in this project and have given the power he now has. It is for this reason that we celebrate these 25 years of life especially, sharing with those who want the keys to developing Aprodisca with an exhibition that will take place during 2011 by some people of the Basin of Barbara and the municipality of La Selva del Camp. See you there!

Hortus APRODISCAe at the Museum of Rural Life.

Thursday April 22, 2010 was submitted to MVR book “Young and elder talk about the land… and about the kitchen”

The book  was presented on April 22, 2010 at the Museum of Rural Life of Espluga Francolí. This publication is a project of Hortus APRODISCAe and has been promoted by Aprodisca (Association for the mentally handicapped in the Conca de Barbera).

The pool explains how the advent of industrialization in the country brought positive things, but mainly custom made change for millennia. The cold, industrial and transportation revolution enabled the consumer does not rely on seasonal produce or canned. Today you can consume fruits and vegetables from other seasons and remote sites, but it makes us lose track of how these foods have been treated, the chemical processes that have suffered to be kept longer conditions in which they grow. Given this proliferation many farmers and consumers who have chosen to return to farming, seasonal produce to eat … well, to return, methods and contemporary knowledge, the rationality required before the dependent stations. It’s the easiest way we currently make sure you eat healthy food, safety and quality.

On 6 February 2009, the newspaper El Patio published the article “The first fruit of the seeds.” In this article we talk about the opening of the store Hortus Aprodiscae Montblanc.

the original PDF document below:

20090206 elpati_el primer fruit de les llavors.pdf