The Neighborhoods for Employment Program: Stronger Together In 2022, it will intensify actions to promote the employability of the most vulnerable groups, offering them personalized and comprehensive support through specific action plans. To achieve this, the Cabildo de Tenerife announced yesterday that it is going to invest 3.9 million euros in this program, which represents an increase of 1.1 million euros with respect to the item approved in the previous year’s budget and to cushion the effects of the pandemic. This investment represents “more than double the 1.7 million euros with which the program started in 2015,” Carmen Luz Baso, Minister of Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action, said yesterday.
The new edition of the program was presented yesterday by Carmen Luz Baso and the president of Spanish Red Cross in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, María Teresa Pociello, representing the collaborating social entities. Along with them, the director of the Dos 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 General Foundation of the ULL, Vicente Zapata; the head of Sinpromi’s Labor Integration area, María Teresa Peña; and the manager of the Foundation for Training, Employment and Business Development (Fifede), Gabriela de Armas.
Employment: Stronger Together will focus on actions aimed at the most vulnerable groups, such as the homeless; in favoring the socio-labour integration of people belonging to the trans collective through the Sauco project; and continue with the commitment to pre-employment schools for young people from Taco and La Vera. The Acércate project, which provides support to migrants, will also continue, 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 of difficult insertion (severe disability ).
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, 1,287 labor insertions, the “highest” since the program began. in 2015. “Not only have we improved the quantitative results, but there has also been evolution at the qualitative level, enhancing the quality and stability of insertions, promoting training and the provision of skills for job performance and greater decentralization of services” Basus added.
María Teresa Pociello highlighted for her part the “collaborative” work of all the entities that work on the program as something “fundamental to bring to all territories the possibility of facilitating employability for people». He also applauded 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 created, and the impact that this program generates in society as a whole. “With this program, the company has become not only a source of income but also a source of social commitment,” said Pociello, to add: “It has started from a time when the economic situation was very complicated, in which that employability was a problem and that integration into the labor market was very complex».
