Presentation Of The Soroptimist Awards 2025 In Mijas On World Food Day

World Food Day was celebrated connected Thursday, October 16, and Soroptimist International Costa del Sol presented nan Soroptimist Awards 2025 astatine nan Mijas Town Hall, pinch nan attendance of councillors Mario Bravo and Mari Francis Alarcon. 

The ceremonial reaffirms Soroptimist’s committedness to promoting section initiatives that thrust much sustainable nutrient systems and to recognising nan group and groups moving for a fairer, healthier future.

The winners successful this version correspond nan diverseness and richness of nan full state of Malaga. From nan Serrania de Ronda to nan Axarquia, nan candidates show different models of agrarian and municipality effect that together shape a representation of champion practices successful production, distribution, education, and nutrient innovation. This plurality shows that sustainability is not a azygous way but a mosaic of solutions adapted to each territory.

Awards and reasons for recognition:

• Cultivation and Food Distribution: Quesos La Laja (Ronda) nickname for family resilience, integrated workplace management, and their committedness to artisanal, section products.
• Sustainable Food Production: The Aceites Sierra de Yeguas grant to nan cooperative for its ecological model, its capacity to create employment, and its biology commitment.
• Food Education and Awareness: Julio Melgarejo nickname for nan run against puerility obesity for its educational, nutritional, and first-aid activity successful schools.
• Innovation and Technology: Conservas El Perol (Ronda) grant to a young inaugural that transforms section earthy materials into added worth and agrarian employment.
• Sustainable Restaurant: Restaurante Raices (Istán) nickname for a gastronomic task that defends section identity, zero-kilometre sourcing and transparency successful nan kitchen.

The Soroptimist Award reaches its 4th twelvemonth arsenic a strategical inaugural of Soroptimist International Costa del Sol to item and fortify projects that beforehand sustainable nutrient systems. The European Federation of Soroptimist International has already recognised this activity by awarding nan “Nutre tu Optimismo” task a prize successful nan Sustainability class for bully practices. Soroptimist acts pinch a world imagination and section presence, supporting education, research, and societal innovation.

Zora Morena Vathke, awarded a danasiwa successful 2025 by nan European Federation of Soroptimist International and a student astatine nan University of Malaga, combines creator training and nursery acquisition to beforehand sustainable solutions successful nan Axarquia; her investigation connected alperujo (olive pomace) and nan poster she designed for nan awards, evoking mountains, sea, oliva groves and nan group who activity nan land, constituent to a promising trajectory successful biology invention and section culture.

Soroptimist acknowledgment nan assemblage composed of Fundacion Aula del Mar, Sabor a Malaga, Justicia Alimentaria and Cruz Roja Malaga for their professionalism and judgement. The support of Ali Meehan from Costa Women and nan collaboration of nan Foreigners Department of Mijas and nan Mijas Comunicacion squad are very appreciated; it wouldn’t beryllium imaginable without them.

The adjacent version will unfastened caller challenges and objectives. The assemblage would for illustration to attraction connected nan value of schoolhouse meals: healthy, nutritious meals should beryllium a cosmopolitan right, not a privilege. Recovering elemental section practices that guarantee nutrition, nutrient civilization and respect for resources, looking into nan past to study for nan future. For 2026, plans are underway to grow nan telephone for applications crossed Andalusia, seeking initiatives that amended schoolhouse catering and fortify section projects pinch social, environmental, and acquisition impact.

For much accusation astir nan Soroptimist Awards, applications for nan adjacent edition, aliases activities of Soroptimist International Costa del Sol, sojourn their website: www.costadelsol.soroptimist.es or travel them connected Facebook.