The Cabildo of Lanzarote has approved in the last Governing Council a collaboration agreement with the seven town councils of the island to allocate 1.5 million euros to subsidies for projects that generate jobs in all municipalities.
The objective of this project is to launch a series of actions aimed at offering an employment opportunity to tackle the unemployment situation and allow the recovery of sustainable and inclusive growth.
The president of the Cabildo, Oswaldo Betancort, emphasized inter-administrative collaboration as a key to "continue to promote the generation of job opportunities and to maintain the reduction of unemployment that Lanzarote and the Canary Islands have been experiencing."
Betancort stressed that "Lanzarote is establishing plans and lines of action that promote growth and promote the island's economic reactivation. For this reason, from the Cabildo of Lanzarote, aware of this situation and the problem of unemployment, especially at the social level, we have developed different projects in order to improve unemployment figures and, in this way, affect an improvement in the island's economy," he added.
In the same vein, the Councilor of the Area, Ascensión Toledo, stressed that job-generating projects will be launched in collaboration with local corporations, which will, on the one hand, respond to economic and social difficulties, and, on the other hand, promote employment and reactivation by carrying out works or services of general or social interest in the municipalities.
The subsidies will be distributed in such a way that 50,000 euros of the budget will be allocated to each of the town councils as a fixed amount, for a total of 350,000 euros. The rest of the budget, that is, 1.15 million euros, will be distributed proportionally among the consistories according to the number of unemployed people residing in each of the municipalities as of October 31, 2022, according to the official data made public by the Canarian Observatory of Employment and Vocational Training (OBECAN).
In this way, Arrecife will receive 640,755 euros; San Bartolomé, 180,525 euros; Teguise will benefit from 176,155 euros; Tías will receive 172,590 euros; Yaiza will have 138,895 euros for its projects; Haría will obtain 95,770 euros, and, finally, Tinajo will receive 95,310 euros.
