The non-profit organisation offers training activities to people at risk of social exclusion
Cáritas Diocesana, the non-profit organisation of the Catholic Church in Menorca, signed an agreement in early September with the Menorca Island Council under which it will receive 75,000 euros – between 2022 and 2023 – to subsidise part of the total cost of the training and socio-occupational integration actions it carries out on the island for people at serious risk of marginalisation so that they can improve their skills and competencies.
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The island’s Director of Employment, Innovation and Local Cooperation, Nati Benejam, signed the document that details the background as well as the need and opportunity to grant this financial aid to Caritas to help achieve one of the objectives of the Department of Employment, Housing and Local Cooperation of the Consell: to promote training for employment through its own projects or agreements with other administrations or social entities to improve the skills of employed and unemployed workers. Benejam explained that “we often find people who cannot access formal training, due to a lack of tools or the irregularity of their situation, but for this reason, they should not be left out of the knowledge and be able to improve their skills to join the labour market. Working with organisations such as Caritas is a means of reaching these groups, who are often marginalised by a strongly institutionalised education or training system”.
Specifically, the Consell considers that this collaboration agreement helps to achieve a positive economic impact, especially and very directly for people at serious risk of social exclusion served by Caritas Diocesana de Menorca, which with this help can improve their opportunities for training and integration into the labour market, as well as for society as a whole by having a structure and support for groups in need of accompaniment and guidance. On the other hand, the Department of Employment of the Consell Insular points out that it has already collaborated with Cáritas Diocesana de Menorca since 2006 and the evaluation of joint collaboration has been very positive and that both entities coordinate perfectly when it comes to formalising agreements.