SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 7. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Barrios por el Empleo: Stronger Together program broke a new record in 2021 both in the number of people served, 5,483 throughout the island of Tenerife, and in the number of job placements, 1,287 job placements, the highest since The program started in 2015.
Looking ahead to this year, this program of the Cabildo de Tenerife will intensify actions in 2022 to promote the employability of the most vulnerable groups, offering them personalized and comprehensive support through specific action plans.
This is one of the objectives of the new edition of the program that was presented today Monday by the Councilor for Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Carmen Luz Baso, and by the provincial presidency of the Spanish Red Cross, María Teresa Pociello , on behalf of the entities that collaborate in the program
Along with them, 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 it has been decided to invest an item of 3.9 million euros in this program, which consolidates the increase of 1.1 million euros approved in the previous year’s budget and to cushion the effects of the pandemic and represents more than double the 1.7 million euros with which the program started in 2015.
“A significant percentage of the unemployed population in Tenerife are people without qualifications, so it is vital to develop programs like this, whose main objective is to improve the employability of unemployed people through guidance and training”, assured the Minister.
Carmen Luz Baso thanked, in this sense, the effort and work of the five entities that collaborate with Fifede in Barrios por el Empleo, as well as the 105 technicians who provide their services in the 27 nodes or centers that this program throughout the island territory.
“Not only have we improved the quantitative results, but there has also been evolution at a qualitative level, enhancing the quality and stability of the insertions carried out, promoting training and the provision of skills for job performance and the greater decentralization of services, reaching rural areas and thus influencing greater territorial cohesion”, he added.
For her part, María Teresa Pociello highlighted the collaborative work of all the entities that work in the program as something fundamental to bring to all the territories the possibility of facilitating employability for people.
Likewise, he highlighted the support provided by companies to generate employment opportunities, reaching in 2021 the important figure of 1,294 companies with which an alliance has been generated, and the impact that this program generates in the whole of the society.
“Through this program, the company has become not only a source of income but also a source of social commitment. We have started from a time when the economic situation was very complicated, when employability was a problem and that integration into the labor market was very complex.
2022 OBJECTIVES
With regard to the commitment for 2022, the new edition of Barrios por el Empleo: Stronger Together will focus on promoting specific actions aimed at the most vulnerable groups, such as the homeless; promote the socio-labour integration of people belonging to the trans collective through the SAUCO project; continue with the commitment to pre-employment schools for young people from Taco and La Vera.
At the same time, the ACÉRCATE project, which provides support to migrants, will be continued, the support program for entrepreneurship will be reinforced and work will continue to facilitate the hiring of people with disabilities in general, and in particular the group with difficult insertion (severe disability).
