Presentation of C.O.A.M.U.R (Andalusian Coordinator of Rural Women’s Organizations)

On October 16, the official presentation of the organization COAMUR (Andalusian Coordinator of Rural Women’s Organizations) took place at the headquarters of the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation , to which the Mosque Foundation of Seville was invited courtesy of the ASIA Foundation .

The event was attended by various political personalities, such as Exc. Mayor of Seville, Mr. Juan Espadas Cejas, Ms. Susana Díaz, Deputy of the PSOE in the Parliament of Andalusia, Ms. Rocío Ruiz Domínguez, Minister of Equality, Social Policies and Conciliation of the Junta de Andalucía, Ms. Rocío Sutil Domínguez, Deputy for Equality and Social Cohesion of the Provincial Council of Seville, Mr. Charif Cherkaoui, Consul of Morocco and Mr. José Manuel Cervera, Director of the Three Cultures Foundation. The Fundación Mezquita de Sevilla was represented by Ms. Fátima Zamorano García.

The presentation of the COAMUR organization was given by Ms. Adela Romero Ruano, president of COAMUR and Ms. Francisca Gago Aguilera, president of the Federation of Associations of Women Sol Rural, who explained to the audience the reason for the creation of COAMUR, its objectives and fields of action, whose purpose is to show the role of women in the history of the rural world, exposing the invisibility of their work and their necessary intervention in the agrarian economy.

After this, the alliances and fields of action of this organization were presented by the different presidents of the organizations with which COAMUR maintains these relations.

In this table, various topics of action were presented, such as agrarian sustainability, the role of rural women, the paradigm shift of poverty and ignorance as a cliché, the empowerment of shared ownership of agricultural activity, the rise of service sectors and companies in agricultural areas, the diversification of employment and the multi-labor option of the farmer and especially the protection of rural womeninvisible and gender violence in the elderly.

After this, a concert by the artist Lourdes Pastor Martínez and a farewell drink by Natural Catering were offered. From the Mosque Foundation of Seville we offer our full support to this initiative and we want to wish the best of luck to the COAMUR Foundation in the development of its activities, since the protection and development of women is an issue of social priority, in pursuit of achieving a fairer society and world. where rights and freedoms are given to all people equally and inequalities end up disappearing.