Awards that have been convened by the Organization of Murcia Business and Professional Women (OMEP), in its Fourteenth Edition of the Women Entrepreneurs, in order to "encourage and reward the efforts of women in joining the business world and its contribution to economic and social development of the Region of Murcia ". held three ways:
Lifetime Achievement Award for Business, Entrepreneurship Award and Prize for the Promotion of Equality.
For Monica Garcia, Deputy Mayor for Health, Social Services, Senior Citizens, Women and Immigration, stated that "with the proposal that we made from the City Sewer, to Josefa González, opt for its entrepreneurship to these prizes, recognition of his merits, for its innovative character, their courage and their economic and personal effort to push through an important project for trade and business life of our town.
Therefore, our City Council's proposed bid for the prize this BUSINESSWOMEN 2008 to entrepreneurship. "
Josefa, who was advised to start their business through the Local Employment Center for Women's City Sewer, runs from September 25, 2007, the only company in the Region of Murcia specializes in unique marketing of products made with 100% Aloe Vera plant. With 44 years, fully aware of the plight of women her age to enter the labor market, had the courage to undertake the creation of their own business and commitment to innovation as vehicle for achieving greater competitiveness of your business.
The awards, an honorary, include delivery of a piece of bronze sculpture, created exclusively for these awards by the artist Murcia Mariano González Beltrán.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla