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Jamena Foundation

Jamena Foundation

Giving back what
the craft gave us

The first foundation of its kind created by a luxury villa builder at a national level.

The origin01

Salvador Mena started out as a shepherd and found in construction an opportunity to move forward. That is the origin of everything.

Jamena was born from manual work. From those who found in construction a real opportunity. Today, that history becomes a mission: training the people who will carry on the trades that make High Construction possible.

Salvador Mena

The trades

  • Manager in a hard hat and hi-vis vest checking a tablet, with the crew working on the reinforcement behind him

    Group Manager

  • Man in a hard hat and hi-vis vest pointing at a detail on plans spread across a site table

    Site Manager

  • Woman in a hard hat and hi-vis vest reading a plan beside a surveying total station

    Industrial Technical Engineer

  • Technician in a hard hat and hi-vis vest taking a measurement with a laser meter, a folder under his arm

    Assistant Site Manager

  • Woman reviewing plans at a computer in the site office, a hard hat on the desk

    Office Technician

  • Foreman in a hard hat and hi-vis vest directing the crew with an outstretched arm

    Site Foreman

  • Mason in a hard hat setting a stone in a masonry wall

    Skilled Mason

  • Labourer in a hard hat and hi-vis vest carrying a bag of cement on his shoulder

    Construction Labourer

  • Operative in a hard hat and safety glasses repairing a machine with a screwdriver

    Maintenance Operative

  • Crane operator in a hard hat in the crane cab, with the site and the sea behind him

    Crane Operator

  • Driver in a hard hat and hi-vis vest beside a crane lorry loaded with pallets of bricks

    Driver

  • Plant operator in a hard hat at the controls in an excavator cab

    Plant Operator

  • Woman working on a laptop in the office, among binders and documents

    Administration / Accounting

The mission02

A response to the sector's twofold reality.

The Costa del Sol residential sector is going through its greatest period of growth and transformation. And in that context, traditional trades are losing generational succession while technical demands keep rising.

The Jamena Foundation is born to solve both realities: to offer real opportunities to people with barriers to entering the labour market, and to guarantee the continuity of the specialized talent that High Construction requires. The training programs are free, hands-on and designed around the sector's real needs — masonry, carpentry, electrics, landscaping — with a direct path into employment. The headquarters will be in Cancelada, Estepona, with its own space featuring classrooms, an auditorium and an exhibition hall.

How we work

  • Training

    Hands-on programs aimed at employability, directed at people in vulnerable situations who find in the trade a real opportunity.

  • Innovation

    Traditional trades evolve. The Foundation integrates technology and research to adapt these disciplines to today's demands without giving up their essence.

  • Culture

    A space for learning, the spread of knowledge, and the recognition of the trades as the sector's living heritage.

“We were pioneers in the construction of high-end villas on the Costa del Sol, and we want to be pioneers too in how we give back to society everything it has given us.”

José Andrés Mena

CEO, Jamena Construcciones

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