Canary Islands | October 4, 2016
In December 2015, a new edition of the Seed Project was launched, a training activity for employment promoted by Envera in Tenerife. Today, and after acquiring the Certificate of Professionalism in Auxiliary Agricultural Activities, four students have managed to access a stable job.
And this is not the end. The training will continue until the end of the year, when the students will obtain a second Certificate of Professionalism in Auxiliary Activities in Nurseries, Gardens and Garden Centers.
The Seed Project is more than a free training program that fifteen people with disabilities benefit from every year. As Elisabeth Martín, Director of the Tenerife delegation of Envera, recalls, the first edition of the Seed Project (2008) responded to a training need with the aim of "opening up new opportunities to achieve the full integration of more people with disabilities". Now, for students and teachers, "the Seed Project is a feeling come true".
Each certificate includes a period of on-the-job training in June and November, with "excellent" results, according to Martín, thanks to the collaboration of Canary Islands companies such as Catesa Foods, Sat Fast, Tegueste Fértil, La Huerta de Tato, Finca PuntaGorda and Sociedad Cooperativa Agrícola Las Medianías, all of which are committed to Envera's mission to achieve the social and labor inclusion of people with disabilities.
As part of the Integrated Itineraries for Labor Market Insertion granted by the Canary Islands Employment Service and co-financed with Community Funds from the European Social Fund of the Canary Islands, the Seed Project is committed to the labor market insertion of at least 25% of its students.
For Envera it is not enough to have achieved this commitment of insertion, so it intends to continue to bet on the Seed Project and partnerships with companies in order to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities and achieve equal opportunities making a better society for all.
