He can't take his situation anymore and has decided to camp, starting this Monday, in front of the headquarters of Social Welfare of the Cabildo, located on Avenida Medular. José Jerez has been unemployed for 28 years, with interrupted periods, and asks that someone listen to his voice and allow him to access a job. "I claim a right that every human being should have."
José Jerez started working when he was 12 years old and since then he has been a total of 28 years unemployed, with interrupted periods. "I only have 10 years of contributions," he says. Now he has been three years in a row without finding work and after asking the Cabildo for help, without giving him an answer to his situation, according to himself, he has decided to camp with his tent and personal belongings in front of the headquarters of Social Welfare.
José assures that the Minister of Social Welfare of the Cabildo, Marci Acuña, promised him that he would access an integration course of the institution and that, afterwards, the Cabildo would be in charge of finding him a job. "I met the minister as a result of some services for the integration of my mother in an care center. I have been patiently waiting three times since he promised me this and I have not heard from them," he says.
Therefore, before the absence of news, after having spoken again with the minister "last week and giving him the benefit of the doubt for a few days", José Jerez has decided to settle this Monday at the headquarters of Social Welfare. And from there, he says that he will not move until they give him an answer. "I have worked in the USA and here I am forced to die unemployed in agony. But for them it is as if you put yourself with pleasure and they do not see the human tragedy behind it," he says.
In fact, as he explained to La Voz, the Local Police has come to evict him. "They tell me that I affect the public road, when I am exercising a right that is reflected in the Constitution, such as the right to demonstrate"
This man affirms that although his ID says that he resides in Fuerteventura, the truth is that he has lived here for years, and asks that they help him to access a job, to get out of this situation in which he finds himself. "I have two children. 10 students, super responsible. The oldest is in university, studying medicine, and the youngest wants to be a pediatrician. And that's where I come in, because I don't want them to not be able to become one because of me," he laments.
