SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 30 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Island Center for Volunteer Entities, located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, will reopen its doors on April 24 with new spaces and services to facilitate the work of the entities after an investment of 1.1 million.
The president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, has visited the facilities accompanied by a representation of the entities of the ‘Tenerife Isla Solidaria’ program and announced that the previous week, from 17 to 21, open days will be held so that the entities and volunteers learn about the new services and resources at their disposal for the development of their work.
“The Cabildo has radically changed the work model with the entities and we wanted it to manifest itself in a physical way, going from closed, isolated and independent offices, to open and common spaces”, highlighted Martín, who indicated that “the now has a modern, accessible and sustainable center”.
He has indicated that he wanted to “promote this space so that people, groups and entities that work in voluntary actions on the island have the best possible place to carry out their work.”
The act was attended by the second vice president, Berta Pérez; the CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta; the Councilor for Social Attention of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Rosario González, and the representative of the board of directors of the Federation of Platform of Volunteer Entities of the Canary Islands, Juan Rognoni.
“This is an ambitious project in which the 29 individual offices that the property had have been transformed into 42 coworking spaces, more open and dynamic to promote collaborative and networked work among volunteer entities,” said Pedro Martín. .
The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta, highlighted, for his part, that “the objective is to turn these units into the nerve center for volunteer organizations and will also serve as a showcase for people interested in volunteering, who will have here a point of reference to know the voluntary work carried out in Tenerife”.
Gugliotta stressed that “the entities will not be supervised in the use of this building, they will have it at their free disposal, an example of the participatory work model that has been promoted.”
He also stressed that it is a local service “because it will have the Tenerife Isla Solidaria team here, dependent on Sinpromi, to work together with the entities.”
The new infrastructures include four rooms, two with capacity for 44 attendees and 10 in the other two; video conference room; Reading; coworking-type work spaces; exhibition area; office space; ticket office service; and mailbox service for entities that do not have a registered office and wish to receive mail at the center.
ACCESSIBLE FACILITIES
The new center, spread over five floors, is equipped with a photovoltaic solar installation to reduce energy consumption and polluting emissions and is complemented by an automated control system, which allows more efficient energy management and building maintenance.
To facilitate the work of the entities, the rooms have computer equipment and portable equipment for use in common spaces.
The center also has software technology for room reservations, to optimize the management of spaces and give opportunity to the largest possible number of requests from entities.
To provide users with greater safety and comfort, the works have also included improving access to the property and adapting the stairs with tactile paving, step marking and lighting, accessible unisex toilets on all floors and the incorporation of a toilet for people with an ostomy on the -1 floor.
In addition, improvements have also been made in cognitive accessibility, identifying each of the floors with a color and the number of the floor in extra-large size, and directories and signposting of the different units with easy-to-understand pictograms.
