The La Orotava City Council hires 40 unemployed from the municipality to carry out cleaning and maintenance tasks of public spaces. The total cost of the project amounts to almost 327,000 euros, of which the Cabildo contributes 310,000 euros and the rest, the City Council. Specifically, work is carried out on the socio-sanitary field through the cleaning and disinfection of common places with the aim of providing the municipality and work areas with sufficient coverage and flexibility to face this period of the pandemic, guaranteeing the provision of services that need professional reinforcement and support as a result of the health crisis.
The Improvement of the Local Economy program after the Covid-19 crisis is carried out from the area of Training and Employment, directed by Councilor Deisy Ramos, and Employment, Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action of the Insular Corporation, which directs the counselor Carmen Luz Baso. This initiative allows promoting the local economy, as well as improving the image of the municipality, since maintenance, renovation and cleaning work is carried out in various parts of the town.
The municipal government reports that This program benefits 40 unemployed people from La Orotava. The group receives a first training phase of essential improvement to continue benefiting from the hiring period. It also includes guidance, insertion and job prospecting plans that improve the employability of participating workers, long-term unemployed and people at risk of social exclusion, among other conditions.
Deisy Ramos especially values the training part of the participants in this project, having the opportunity to improve the accreditation of their curriculum through training in professional skills and acquire certain relevant personal skills in social and health care and cleaning techniques and disinfection. “Thus, they improve their experience and their preparation to enter the world of work,” he points out.
Seventy families
Another aspect to be valued is that, thanks to this project, assistance is offered to more than 70 family nuclei in the municipality that have social and health care needs, developing a personalized itinerary to give greater fluidity between both services. Likewise, the increase in cleaning and disinfection services has improved the health and well-being aspect of residents and visitors. This has been a positive point towards the attraction of the tourism sector and has influenced the common well-being of citizens, since the benefits of clean places affect the emotional life of individuals to interact with others, it provides greater tranquility of movement and a considerable reduction in health infections that is of vital importance due to the current health crisis, explains the government.
The current project will end on October 18, after having given labor coverage to one of the most prevailing social and cleaning demands today in La Orotava.
The mayor, Francisco Linares, underlines the importance of having the support of the Cabildo to develop this type of initiatives, which allow to help the most disadvantaged groups in training and prepare them to access the world of work, offering them something basic and necessary such as the own experience. In addition, “it favors the development of actions that benefit the municipality in essential areas, such as social health, especially in the situation we live in.”
