The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oswaldo Betancort, together with the island's vice president, Jacobo Medina, and the Minister of Employment, Ascensión Toledo, welcomed this Monday the 158 new workers hired within the Support Plan for Employability Cuidando Lanzarote, in the assembly hall of the Casa Cabildo.
The Cabildo of Lanzarote has allocated for this employment plan something "more than 12.5 million euros", financed by the FDCAN funds, through the area of Planning and Projects, with the main objective of "cleaning, maintenance and beautification" of the island in the period 2023-2025.
Oswaldo Betancort has welcomed these workers, who started their tasks on September 1, and highlighted that this investment "allows us to take care of the image of the coast, the middle and upper areas of the island" and, in short, "improve the aesthetics of Lanzarote and La Graciosa".
"The important thing is to meet the objective of lowering the unemployment rate in Lanzarote and try to strengthen and promote an island that is a Biosphere Reserve," said Betancort.
Jacobo Medina also thanked "the work of the technicians of the two councils, Planning and Employment, who have worked in a coordinated manner for the elaboration of this new plan".
Medina remarked the satisfaction that means "to see the faces of illusion of these people for getting a job, but also for the responsibility they have to keep our island in a perfect state of conservation".
For her part, the Minister of Employment, Ascensión Toledo, has positively valued the integration of these "158 new people to the Cabildo" and has put the "emphasis not only on employability, but on training". "In fact, this group will have a training program that is designed to know the needs that these workers have in training so that, once the three-year contract period is over, they can have more job opportunities."
The Minister also stressed that the Employment area of the Cabildo "will continue during the next year with employment plans in cooperation with the town councils" and has announced an "increase in the items allocated for this purpose".
Cleaning of the coastline, road margins and waste removal
The first of the lots awarded, within the Employment Plan 'Cuidando Lanzarote', is the so-called 'Service of collection of special waste, debris and cleaning of Zonzamas', which is based on the "removal of plastics and all types of waste that accumulate in the area of the island landfill2. For this, "23 people (a manager, three drivers and nineteen laborers), as well as a hybrid vehicle" have been hired. The awarded company has been Luman Mantenimiento SLU, for a "total amount of 1,792,285 euros".
The cleaning services, conditioning of municipal roads of Yaiza, Tías, Tinajo and San Bartolomé, as well as trails and roads of the island, have been awarded to the company Canarias Control Radioeléctrico S.L for "1,848,400.74 euros". In this lot, "19 people (a manager, three drivers and fifteen laborers), as well as an electric vehicle" have been hired.
The third of the lots awarded is called 'Coastal cleaning', in the coastal areas of the island, and for which "23 people (a manager, three drivers and nineteen laborers)" have been hired, to the company Activa Lanzarote for "1,772,979.30 euros".
The lot 'Island Beautification', based on maintenance actions of public, rural and municipal spaces of the island, has been awarded to the company Lumar Mantenimiento SLU for "1,792,285.43 euros", and "23 people (a manager, three drivers and nineteen laborers) have been hired and an electric vehicle has been acquired".
The fifth of the lots is the one that has as objective the 'cleaning and removal of waste in the island enclave', for which "19 people (a manager, three drivers and 15 laborers) have been hired and an electric vehicle has been acquired". This lot has been awarded to the company Telquia Servicios Integrales for "1,846,406.38 euros".
The last two blocks are destined to people with disabilities and have been awarded to the company Centro Especial de Empleo Integra e Innova. The first of them has the name of 'Conservation and improvement of the regions of Guatiza and Mala, degraded agricultural spaces in the ENP Environment of La Geria and agricultural area of the natural environment of La Corona'. For this, "23 people (a manager, three drivers and 19 laborers), as well as an electric vehicle" have been hired, and the award has a price of "1,729,548 euros".
The second of the lots destined to people with disabilities is the one of 'Conservation and improvement of the protected enclaves of El Jable and Natural Park of Los Volcanes', for which "23 people (a manager, three drivers and 19 laborers)" have also been hired. On this occasion, it has been awarded for an amount of "1,727,622 euros".
