The Ingenio City Council and the former APMIB are working to establish lines of collaboration for the digitization of the municipal archive.
The Town Council of the Villa de Ingenio and the envera Group (until last year the Association of Employees of Iberia Parents of the Handicapped-APMIB) are preparing a collaboration agreement through which to offer the possibility to students of the association to work in the process of digitization of the municipal archive.
Grupo envera is a non-profit organization that works for the social and labor integration of people with functional diversity. It is currently developing, at the headquarters of APMIB located in C/ Arcipreste de Hita (Carrizal), the project "DIGITAL14", through which about 15 people associated with a situation of intellectual, physical, sensory disability or mental illness will be trained during this year to obtain a Certificate of Professionalism level 1, approved by the State Public Employment Service, in the specialty of Data and Document Recording and Processing Operations.
Accompanied and guided by the director Marta Cacho, the Councilor for Archives and Heritage of the City Council of Ingenio, Domingo González, visited the center yesterday, Wednesday, May 20, visiting the different classrooms that are prepared to provide various training activities, including cleaning, sewing, cooking or food handling, since, as reported by the responsible, they are accredited to offer 11 different specialties. The mayor stopped especially in the classroom dedicated to the project "DIGITAL14" where he could meet the students. The latter took the opportunity to ask him questions about training and recruitment of people with labor insertion difficulties.
According to the mayor, there is already a budget item allocated for the digitization of the municipal archive, so we are working to establish lines of collaboration so that the practices can be carried out in the City Council of Ingenio and study a subsequent job placement. "And not only in this area," González explained, "but in any other training course in which we can participate together". He recalled that training is essential for employability and that special efforts must be made with the group of people with insertion difficulties, who are also encouraged to become self-employed, a line that is also expected to be proposed at a regional level.
Source: Municipality of the Villa de Ingenio
