Madrid | January 12, 2024
Since 2001, the Community of Madrid, through the Department of Family, Youth and Social Affairs, has been promoting theAILA Project for the Labor Insertion of People with Disabilities, which is 40% co-financed by the European Union and through which this year Envera has improved the employability of a hundred people, 60 of whom have obtained a job. In this way, Envera's Labor Insertion Service has surpassed by 33% the objective of insertions that had been set in the AILA XVIII Project.
Envera explains that thanks to this project, the incorporations in 2023 have been made both in ordinary companies and in special employment centers in various sectors, for example, laundry, handling or logistics, among others".
In addition to job creation, participants have also been trained in different skills aimed at improving their chances of entering the labor market.
This is the case of the ten people with disabilities, most of them intellectual, who thanks to the project have completed a specialized training of 260 theoretical and practical hours in the field of hospitality, one of the most demanded professions nowadays.
Over the course of five months, the students have been trained to work as kitchen assistants, dining room assistants or cleaning assistants (office) and have completed 175 hours of training in important companies in the sector such as Cafestore, Artigot, El Laurel Catering, Comedores Blanco, Teams Heretics, Mo de Movimiento and Alma Cheli.
The students of 'Cocina Formándote' have learned various techniques, procedures and essential habits through meaningful learning and developing competencies and skills adapted to each of them. They have studied the elements that make up a kitchen, the machinery and tools used, they know how to work with raw materials, prepare food and present culinary preparations. In addition, they have been trained on the functions to be performed by each member of the kitchen staff, the ideal conditions of the premises, and the rules of safety and hygiene at work.
Envera's AILA XVIII Project seeks to cover a double need for people with disabilities. On the one hand, the availability of economic means to meet the needs of life and, on the other hand, to receive personalized support for their labor and social insertion. Envera participates in this project with the firm conviction that getting a job is essential for the full integration of people in a society that tends, unfortunately, to exclusion.
For the Regional Ministry of Family, Youth and Social Affairs of the Community of Madrid, priority is given to this type of programs that seek active social inclusion and are aimed at helping people with greater difficulties to receive the necessary support to enter the labor market and maintain employment.
