The Council of Tenerife relies on solidarity volunteer entities from the third sector to achieve the objective of improving the employability of people with disabilities. The labor insertion of this sector of the population is one of the priority axes of action for the new Minister of Social Action, Águeda Fumero, and her team. Fumero assured representatives of some twenty groups in her first contact that “we are going to work transversally to optimize Sinpromi’s labor integration service.”
Fumero held that initial meeting yesterday in which he had words of gratitude for the staff of the Insular Society for the Promotion of Persons with Disabilities (Sinpromi) along with those who explained the will of the Cabildo to “make available to third sector associations the tools that the institution has in relation to the labor integration of people with disabilities.”
The Minister of Social Action, from the Popular Party, announced her intention to “work in permanent collaboration with the groups throughout the Island”, with the aim of “implementing lines of action that are effective, designed with the contribution of the point of view of the people to whom they are addressed”. She also opted for “working from the perspective of inter-administrative collaboration to offer a better service.”
Águeda Fumero, who reinforced her team this week with the incorporation of Yolanda Baumgartner as island director, stressed the job placement of people with disabilities as a key axis in this mandate for the Social Action area. She recalled that “access to work is a basic right of all with the guarantee of the same opportunities in personal and professional development.”
thirty anniversary
Sinpromi, a body of the Cabildo de Tenerife, a pioneer in facilitating universal accessibility, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year. The road map in such a special exercise includes actions aimed at promoting employment of people with disabilities in the ordinary labor market. That requires “redoubling efforts” for them to get and keep a job on an equal footing with others. The fundamental objective.
Tenerife Isla Solidaria, the solidarity volunteer program dependent on Sinpromi, celebrated its 25th anniversary in December last year. During the pandemic it gained enormous momentum and today, a quarter of a century later, it is made up of 603 social entities from all fields and sectors.
A quarter of a century of the solidarity network
Tenerife Isla Solidaria, the solidarity volunteer program dependent on Sinpromi, celebrated its 25th anniversary in December last year. During the pandemic it gained enormous momentum and today, a quarter of a century later, it is made up of 603 social entities from all fields and sectors. In this exercise, the intention is to continue growing and keep fully in mind the complete labor integration of the disabled. In this sense, groups such as the Spanish Committee of Representatives of Persons with Disabilities (Cermi) advocate for the reform of article 49 of the Constitution. Both because of the language when using terms such as handicapped or handicapped, and basically to strengthen support for their integration. It was threatened on several occasions during the previous legislature but, for now, it is still in force. | JDM
