Pregnant women, at risk, and lacking training or professional qualifications to be able to be autonomous and earn a living. A drama. And a very common situation in this group. The RedMadre Foundation has just launched a portal, RedMadre Orienta, to help in this task. Beyond the jungle that entails entering search engines such as Google, this digital tool, unique in its characteristics, will allow to focus the search and easily access training proposals of different types, public and private, free and paid. This tool has been made possible thanks to the sponsorship of the Nemesio Diez Foundation, which supports projects dedicated to vulnerable people in Spain.
A few days after March 8, Women's Day, RedMadre believes that female employability remains a challenge for society. Even more so when they become pregnant or have just had a child.
One out of every four women has had work difficulties after motherhood, according to María Torrego, president of the RedMadre Foundation, an organization that has been working for 19 years to help at-risk mothers. This is the reason for the creation of this website, which is “an intelligent training search engine for new mothers, or simply mothers,” explains María Torrego, general manager of the foundation. Its offer is aimed at a very specific sector of women, but in reality it can benefit any of them, or even men, because the offers are usually generic in nature. “It's like a specialized Google, which saves time and effort in the search,” she adds.
Training adapted to the circumstances
“We help the pregnant women and new mothers we accompany to access training adapted to their circumstances in order to facilitate their incorporation into the world of work and enable them to support their families and develop their lives,” she says. María Torrego. She adds that “with this professional orientation portal we open our training and employment project to any woman who needs new opportunities to rebuild her life project, without the need for her to be receiving support from RedMadre”.
The new digital tool is part of the Employability program that the foundation is already developing, with the Forma+Emplea+Integra Project. aimed at parents in vulnerable situations. Working with them, “we saw the need for a tool to help them seek training,” explains Leticia Estevas-Guilmain, head of the project. She points out that many of the beneficiaries of RedMadre are immigrant women. “We have detected that these women we are helping urgently need training to get a decent job that will guarantee better opportunities for her and her new family, and that the stage of pregnancy and early parenting can be used to this end”.
However, in many cases “they lack training in Spain. Sometimes they don't have it at all; sometimes they even have higher degrees, because they are dentists, lawyers, doctors, but without a certified degree. The Foundation already provided them with some practical help in short, practical sessions, and in more specialized, face-to-face courses.
“Now we are extending this assistance to pregnant women, to anyone, regardless of their situation. In addition, it is an unprecedented course because no one collects so much information on training offers,” Leticia assures. “There are no search engines that offer something so specialized,” she stresses.
The site is not a course tracker, but rather the RedMadre team analyzes different options and courses and then includes those that are truly useful for the people targeted by the tool.
The website provides information on offers from 16 private entities with which RedMadre collaborates (care organizations, educational entities...) as well as numerous public resources, from ministries, autonomous communities and city councils. Most of them are free of charge. For those that are not, the Foundation often offers financial aid.
On the web
On the page RedMadre Orienta allows connecting women according to their age, autonomous community, previous studies and legal situation with the social entities that offer courses and programs compatible with their circumstances. It also shows the map of public education they can access and the degrees they can take, explaining in detail each one and the type of work they will be able to develop later. In addition, it has a section for quick and easy access to the accreditation of professional competencies and homologation of degrees.
Torrego has encouraged all educational entities and social organizations to offer their collaboration on the page, with the idea of centralizing on this website the widest possible range of offers.
The website will be updated frequently, with the idea that the resources are active and that there are no links to outdated websites or offers. The search engine can be accessed through https://orienta.redmadre.es/
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