Eduardo Martínez-Cosentino, a native of Macael, wins the CaixaBank Philanthropy Award in Andalusia
The president of the Eduarda Justo Foundation, a native of Macael, wins the CaixaBank Philanthropy Award in Andalusia for his commitment to young people.
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Eduardo Martínez-Cosentino Justo, a native of Macael and president of the Eduarda Justo Foundation, has won the CaixaBank Wealth Management Philanthropy Award in Andalusia for his commitment to education and opportunities for young people from Almería, as reported by La Voz de Almería and El Conciso.
This ninth edition received 196 applications, of which 110 went through to the second phase, and only one initiative is awarded for each of the bank’s eleven regional divisions. Each winner receives €5,000 to support their cause.
Born in Macael in 1940, he started working at 15 in his father’s workshop and at 18 he left for Barcelona to open up a market selling slabs of Blanco Macael marble, as he himself told La Voz de Almería in 2025. He is the eldest of the Martínez-Cosentino brothers: their father handed the family business over to him and to the youngest, Paco.
Behind the award lies a story with roots in the Valley. The foundation was set up in 2006 by the three Martínez-Cosentino brothers and bears the name of their mother, Eduarda Justo. Since then it has worked for education, leadership and equal opportunities for young people in Almería, with a special bond with the marble district and the Almanzora.
Scholarships, debating and robotics
- The Leaders of the Future Seminar (Seminario Líderes del Futuro).
- Scholarships to study abroad with the United World Colleges and with the Canadá TECH programme, which has just opened applications for pupils in the 4th year of ESO (compulsory secondary education).
- Debate Almería and the First LEGO League robotics competition.
- Programmes in entrepreneurship, educational innovation and teacher training.
In its first fifteen years, according to Innovaspain in 2021, the foundation had awarded 47 study scholarships and 21 summer camp scholarships, and its seminars had brought together more than a thousand participants. “We have a lot of faith in young people,” Martínez-Cosentino himself summed up at the time.
The award will be presented at the national gala on 12 November in Málaga, which will bring together the eleven winners from all over Spain.
