Tenerife | February 23, 2024
The Councilor for Tourism and Employment of the Canary Islands Government, Jessica de León Verdugo, visited this Friday the headquarters of Envera in Tenerife and closed the Training Project in Alternation with Employment (PFAE) Agrojardín Envera with which 15 people with disabilities have obtained two certificates of professionalism that will help them to get a job.
Thanks to the support of the Canary Islands Employment Service, over the last year people with disabilities have been trained with Envera in one of the most demanded sectors, such as agriculture and gardening, and at the same time they have been given an employment contract.
This was verified by De León during the visit, accompanied by Envera's general manager, Enrique Grande, during which she also visited the Special Employment Center where Envera provides stable and supported work to people with disabilities who perform handling services for companies such as Binter or the IASS (Insular Institute of Social and Socio-sanitary Care) of the Cabildo of Tenerife.
Both CEE workers and professionals with disabilities from the Playground Cleaning Service that Envera provides for the City Council of Arona, Tenerife, have told the Councilor how working means independence and an opportunity to develop a decent life. "We are taxpayers like everyone else, but we need the administration to help us to have the same opportunities," explained David, a handler.
The Councilor showed interest in the professional career developed by people with disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities, thanks to the sustainable work at Envera, as in the case of Julián: "I have been working at Envera for more than 35 years and I have two years left to retire", he explained to the representative of the Canary Islands Government.
Afterwards, the Minister, who was accompanied by the Director of the Canary Islands Employment Service, María Teresa Ortega, toured the Envera farm where the training projects are carried out as a preliminary step before accessing employment.
After learning about the activities carried out, De León addressed a few words to the students - workers of Envera to congratulate them for successfully passing the PFAE and acknowledged "the important work done by Envera in its delegations of Tenerife and Gran Canaria, with whom we will continue working not only to train people with disabilities, but also to involve the Ministry of Tourism and Employment in inclusion programs".
For his part, Grande wanted to "thank the Ministry and the Government of the Canary Islands as a whole for the support they always give us to achieve our goal for people with disabilities to occupy their place in the world with dignity". And he assured that "we will continue working together on social and labor inclusion and on making the Canary Islands' tourism business fabric a dis-friendlysector".
Envera has been developing its social work in the Canary Islands since the early 80's and currently serves 35 people with disabilities in its Occupational Center in Gran Canaria and provides stable employment to almost a hundred people in the Canary Islands, 80% of them with disabilities.
Thanks to the training programs subsidized by the Canary Islands Employment Service, Envera has trained more than 500 people with disabilities in recent years who have obtained an official certificate of professionalism and has assisted more than 400 people through its Job Placement Service and Placement Agency.
In addition, Envera maintains alliances with companies such as Salvesen to promote the employment of people with disabilities and with other NGOs such as Red Cross and Food Bank to which it donates the organic products generated in the agricultural certificates, which makes possible the impact on 11 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030.
