Origin of SAFA
Fundación Escuelas Profesionales de la Sagrada Familia was founded in 1940, months after the end of the Spanish Civil War. In that socioeconomic context, a young Jesuit Father Rafael Villoslada Peula proposed providing vocational training to children who otherwise had no opportunity to receive a basic education.
The Spanish Civil War took place from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Second Spanish Republic, in alliance with the Anarchists and Communists, fought against the Nationalists, an alliance of Falangists, Monarchists, and Catholics, led by General Francisco Franco. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war had many facets, and different views saw it as class struggle, a war of religion, a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war in early 1939 and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.
The founding charter defines SAFA as an institution whose teaching work, always free, aims to promote and create the future workers of the Province of Huelva, among the impoverished classes of the Andalusian towns and fields, It offers Christian and social education, as well as the human and social promotion of its beneficiaries, with special emphasis on professional education. The work as defined in the charter continues into the 21st century, through cooperation between the Foundation and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Council of Andalusia. [2] [3] [4]
Huelva is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by Portugal, the provinces of Badajoz, Seville, and Cádiz, and the Atlantic Ocean. Its capital is Huelva.
The SAFA Foundation offers primary, secondary, and technical training, including adult education, throughout Andalusia, in twenty-seven centers: Alcalá de los Gazules, Alcalá la Real, Almería Andújar, Atarfe, Baena, Bujalance, Cádiz, Chiclana, Écija, El Puerto S. María, Huelva, Jerez, Las Lomas, Linares, Málaga (ICET), Montellano, Osuna, Pedro Abad, Sevilla (B. Paloma), Sevilla (N.S. Reyes), Sevilla (P. Vereda), Úbeda, Valverde del Camino, Villacarrillo, Villanueva, Centro Naturaleza Constantina, and Centro Universitario Úbeda. [5]
Alcalá de los Gazules is a city located in the province of Cádiz, Spain. According to the 2006 census, the town has a population of 5,633 inhabitants. Alcalá de los Gazules is situated in the Sierra de Cádiz.
Alcalá la Real is a city in the province of Jaén, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the city has a population of 22,129 inhabitants.
Atarfe is a Spanish city, that belongs to the province of Granada, in Andalusia. It is located in the north central part of the Vega of Granada. It borders the municipalities of Moclín, Colomera, Albolote, Maracena, Granada, Santa Fe, and Pinos Puente. By this village run the Rivers Cubillas and Colomera. Its districts include Caparacena, Sierra Elvira, Hurpe and Cubillas.
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