The Cabildo helps 562 entities throughout the island to manage their volunteering, a figure that has increased by 87% in the last two years. The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, announces it when presenting the balance of 2021 and the Action Plan for 2022 of the Tenerife Solidarity Island program. A network that reaches almost 220,000 people, just under a fifth of the population. This is the framework of an initiative that has a budget of more than 1.2 million euros (1,257,064, specifically), 133% more than in the previous year. The insular director of Innovation, Planning and Social Action Strategy, Ascensión Bacallado, accompanies Gugliotta as guarantor of the process towards digitization, the premise in this exercise, which will allow entities to be more efficient and better manage their resources.
Tenerife Isla Solidaria is managed by the public company Sinpromi with the aim of promoting the third sector on the Island. It turns 25 this 2022 but the great leap forward comes from 2019. Volunteering has gone from 1,658 to 3,105 people in these two years, 87% more, who collaborate directly with the groups. There are already 562 entities, 105 more compared to that date.
Gugliotta details that «there are more than 10,000 direct users of our services and campaigns». The increase in the economic injection represents an amount three times higher than that of 2019, at the beginning of the current mandate.
Cioni Bacallado details as one of the bets for 2022 «to promote tools such as digital transformation or digitization in the work processes of third sector entities».
Bacallado values: «We intend to develop objectives that will facilitate the transition to overcome the existing digital divide». He recalls the design of a set of accompanying actions that will provide sustainability, from digital volunteering to the development of free software tools. It seeks “the generation of spaces and support networks” between the entities, as well as actions of “accompaniment, training and awareness that will allow social inclusion to develop as well”.
Among the lines of action for this year, in addition to this digital transformation project for entities, information and advice stand out; the promotion of volunteering; training and the Service for Attention to Migrants, of which a hundred groups are already part of the program. A fact to highlight: the 1,418 hours of information and advice recorded during 2021.
