The Barrios por el Empleo: Stronger Together program will intensify actions in 2022 to promote the employability of the most vulnerable groups, offering them personalized and comprehensive support through action plans. This is one of the objectives of the new edition of the program that was presented yesterday by the councilor for Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action of the Cabildo, Carmen Luz Baso, and by the provincial presidency of the Red Cross, María Teresa Pociello, on behalf of the entities that collaborate in the program.
Also present were the territorial director of the Don Bosco Salesianos Social Foundation in the Canary Islands, Miguel Ángel Rojas; the director of Caritas Diocesana de Tenerife, Juan Rognoni; the academic coordinator of the program by the General Foundation of the ULL, Vicente Zapata; the head of Sinpromi’s Labor Integration area, María Teresa Peña, and the manager of Fifede, Gabriela de Armas.
Carmen Luz Baso stressed that, for the second consecutive year, “we have decided to invest an item of 3.9 million in this program, which consolidates the increase of 1.1 million approved in the previous year’s budget to cushion the effects of the pandemic, and that is more than double the 1.7 million with which the program started in 2015”. “A significant percentage of the unemployed population in Tenerife are people without qualifications, which is why it is vital to develop programs like this”, assured the minister.
Carmen Luz Baso highlighted that last year a new record was registered both in the number of people served, 5,483 throughout the Island, and in the number of labor insertions, with 1,287, the highest since the program began in 2015.
For her part, María Teresa Pociello highlighted the collaborative work of all the entities that work on the program, as well as the support provided by companies to generate employment opportunities, reaching in 2021 the important figure of 1,294 companies with which has created an alliance.
This year’s edition will focus on actions aimed at the most vulnerable groups, such as the homeless; as well as promoting the socio-labour integration of people belonging to the trans community through the Sauco project, and continuing with the commitment to pre-employment schools for young people from Taco and La Vera. Continuity will also be given to the Acércate project, which provides support to migrants, among other actions.
