The 25th anniversary of the San Valero Dominican Foundation (FUNDOSVA) is commemorated in an event that was attended by the ambassador of Spain in the Dominican Republic, Alejandro Abellán García de Diego, representatives of the Board of Trustees of the San Valero Group, Francisco Velázquez and Jorge Villarroya, of the Group’s general director, César Romero, of the director of the Area of International and Development Cooperation, Nieves Zubález, and of the director of the Dominican San Valero Foundation, José René Frías.
During the event, took place an awards ceremony at the Cultural Center of Spain in Santo Domingo to honor the work done by 25 Dominican institutions and personalities during this quarter-century in FUNDOSVA. The winners received a folder of thanks and an exclusive watercolor by the prestigious painter José González Mas.
Within the commemorative events, the exhibition “Jalón Ángel (1898-1976) Photographer, traveler and promoter of education” was inaugurated, coinciding with the Weeks of Spain organized by the Embassy of Spain in the Dominican Republic. Jalón Ángel was the founder of San Valero school, nowadays San Valero Group and of which FUNDOSVA is a part, through this exhibition the figure of the photographer and his eagerness to promote education are honored.
The San Valero Dominican Foundation held its XX Graduation Ceremony for the 2019 Promotion of the San Valero and Aragón Polytechnics attended by 300 new technical bachelors from the areas of Accounting and Finance, Computer Science, Electrical Installation and Maintenance, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, Digital Electronics and Micro-Computing, Culinary Arts, Nursing, Electronics in Communication and Mechanics.
The table of honor was chaired by Jorge Villarroya, member of the Board of Trustees of the San Valero Group and CEO of the IQE Group, and by César Romero Tierno, general director of the Group; in addition to José René Frías, general director of the Dominican Foundation San Valero; Luisa Valette director of the Aragon Polytechnic; Yudilandia de la Cruz, teaching coordinator of the San Valero Polytechnic and Julio Vinicio Durán, regent of the San Valero Polytechnic. Jorge Villarroya delivered the keynote address congratulating and motivating the graduates to continue surpassing himself, he referred to the commendable work of the San Valero Group in Spain and the Dominican San Valero Foundation in this country.
The San Valero Dominican Foundation, is one of the five centers of the San Valero Group, which since its creation on October 5, 1995, has been dedicated to training technical graduates in the district of Los Guaricanos, without distinction of race, religion and social class and that is celebrating its 25 years of experience in this country with a very positive balance of more than 50,000 graduates.
