The Council of Tenerife will allocate 3.9 million euros next year to Barrios for the Employment: Stronger Together corresponding due to “the good results” of this program aimed at job creation. This was pointed out yesterday by the insular president, Pedro Martín, who participated yesterday in the closing day of this year. With this plan, the Corporation has managed, for the second consecutive year, to overcome the barrier of 1,000 people with difficult job placement who have been given easier access to a job.
Yesterday’s meeting, which brought together more than 200 people including companies, participants and program technicians, was also attended by the island’s Employment Minister, Carmen Luz Baso, and Social Action, Marián Franquet. Martín assured that “from the beginning we worked to strengthen the effectiveness of this program, providing it with new resources and services, such as the one we have begun to provide through Sinpromi to facilitate the incorporation of people with disabilities into the labor market.”
During the day, Pedro Martín thanked the collaboration of Tenerife companies that participate in the non-labor internships offered by the program. “This year we have helped 1,311 people to find a job and you have opened the doors to be able to do it,” said the president in a meeting with businessmen. He added that through their collaboration “companies show that they are not only a resource to generate economic benefit but also social benefit.”
In total, 5,137 people with difficulties in accessing a job have been assisted this year in one of the more than 30 offices distributed throughout the Island that Barrios por el Empleo has. In addition, one in four has managed to enter the labor market and 1,093 have received professional training, mainly related to the service sector and in particular to the hotel industry, food sales and distribution companies, and tourism. The program offers personalized attention, which includes guidance services, training, labor intermediation and non-working practices in companies in order to improve their employability. In addition, it has a special service for vulnerable groups: the homeless, the disabled, the transgender group, migrants and young people with special conditions.
Carmen Luz Baso highlighted the work of the five entities and the hundred technicians who collaborate in the program, under the coordination of Fifede, such as Cáritas, the Red Cross, the Don Bosco Salesianos Foundation, the University of La Laguna and the Island Society for the Promotion of People with Disabilities (Sinpromi).
