The "la Caixa" Foundation's Más Empleo programme provides 4,529 jobs for people at risk of exclusion

The "la Caixa" Foundation's Más Empleo programme provides 4,529 jobs for people at risk of exclusion

Thanks to the "la Caixa" Foundation's Más Empleo (More Employment) programme, more than 4,500 jobs have been hired in 2019, the third year in which it has been implemented in 29 Spanish provinces. Through 67 projects run by social entities, people at risk of exclusion have followed personalised itineraries that culminated in their social and occupational integration.  

The participants served include very diverse profiles and some arrive from social services: young people, the over 45s, people with physical or intellectual disabilities, immigrants or victims of gender violence, among others. The greatest added value of the programme is the accompaniment of the participants through integrated and personalised itineraries according to the starting point of each participant and the objectives established together with a social technician, who carries out close monitoring, in such a way that the employability of the candidate is guaranteed at the end of the process.  

El acompañamiento es el valor diferencial del programa Más Empleo, que trabaja con más de 10.000 personas al año para mejorar su empleabilidad

In total, 10,442 people have been assisted and 5,212 people have received qualified training throughout 2019. In the words of the deputy director general of the "la Caixa" Foundation, Marc Simón: "Access to employment is one of the great tools we have to favour social inclusion, especially necessary for people who find themselves in difficult times. That is why at the "la Caixa" Foundation we are committed to this strategy of social and labour insertion; also, in the Más Empleo programme, hand in hand with the European Union".  

The "la Caixa" Foundation's Más Empleo programme is co-financed by the European Social Fund with 30,576,923 euros and by the "la Caixa" Foundation with 10,769,310 euros. The projects selected have received annual funding of between 80,000 and 100,000 euros until 2023 and include individualised itineraries, training to improve employability, job prospecting and intermediation, employment guidance in the active search for employment and, if integration is achieved, support and monitoring for both the individual and the company.  

The "la Caixa" Foundation, chaired by Isidro Fainé and directed by Antonio Vila, was designated in 2016 as the Intermediate Body of the European Social Fund in the POISES for Spain 2014-2020 and it is within the framework of this programme that it has developed this initiative. The POISES is Spain's response designed to promote social inclusion and fight poverty and all forms of discrimination. The programme is a response to the "la Caixa" Foundation's desire to combat social exclusion, guarantee equal opportunities in access to the labour market and take advantage of the potential of the social economy in economic recovery.

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