The Island Center for Volunteer Entities, located in the Perú neighborhood of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, It will reopen on April 24 after a comprehensive reform financed by the Cabildo with 1.1 million euros. On its five floors it will have four rooms, two with capacity for 44 attendees and 10 in the other two; videoconference room, reading room, spaces for co-working, exhibition area, office, ticket offices and mailbox service for entities without a registered office.
It is equipped with a photovoltaic installation with an automated control system, which allows more efficient energy management and building maintenance. The rooms have computer equipment. Access to the center is adapted and the stairs have tactile paving, marked and illuminated steps, it has accessible unisex toilets on all floors and incorporates a toilet for people with ostomies on floor -1.
During a visit to the property, the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, highlights that “we have radically changed the model of work with the entities.” He defends that the objective is “to promote this space so that people, groups and entities that work in voluntary actions on the Island have the best possible place to carry out their work.”
The week prior to its opening (from April 17 to 21), the Island Center for Volunteer Entities will hold open days for entities and volunteers to learn about the facilities, their operation, services and resources.
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, stresses that “the objective is to turn these units into the nerve center for volunteer entities and to serve as a showcase for people interested in volunteering, who will have a point of reference here to find out about the work being carried out in Tenerife in this area ». He emphasizes that “the entities will not be supervised in the use of this building, they will have it at their free disposal, an example of the participatory work model that we have been promoting.”
Martín was accompanied on the visit by the second vice president, Berta Pérez; the Minister of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta; the Councilor for Social Care of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Rosario gonzalezand the representative of the Platform Federation of Volunteer Entities of Canary IslandsJuan Rognoni.
