The Canary Foundation for the Promotion of Labor, Funcatra, and the Social and Cultural Association for Women Mararía have presented this Tuesday the Conecta-T project, whose "main objective is to teach and provide the necessary resources for the unemployed with little or no knowledge in the use of the internet or social networks". For this, they will have a multifunctional space provided by the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
The managing director of the Canary Foundation for the Promotion of Labor, Agustín Herrera, explained during the presentation of this project that "although there are several projects launched by Funcatra for unemployed Canarians to actively search for employment, there is a significant volume of them who declare that they do not have the appropriate knowledge to access the networks where the different jobs are advertised".
According to Herrera, it was this peculiarity that "led to the creation of a program, totally free, that teaches the unemployed what the internet is, how to access social networks, in addition to providing the appropriate knowledge to create professional profiles and resumes with which to access the job demands that are facilitated daily through Funcatra, CanariasEmplea.org or whatever entities or companies that demand workers".
"Added peculiarity" in Lanzarote
The director of Funcatra has pointed out that, in the case of Lanzarote, "there is an added peculiarity which is to collaborate directly with Mararía", a non-profit entity that "is in direct contact with the unemployed and their daily needs", something that, Herrera has indicated, "without a doubt, is a guarantee of bringing closer and facilitating that projects like Conecta-T are effective and facilitate the active search for employment for the unemployed".
For her part, the president of Mararía, Nieves Rosa Hernández, has pointed out that "this type of action by an official body, attached to the Government of the Canary Islands, such as Funcatra, represents a guarantee so that the works reach a real end, to results that generate the possibility that the unemployed cease to be so".
At the end of the presentation, Herrera and Hernández spoke and learned about the ideas of the first students of the Conecta-T project in Lanzarote, who receive their classes in a classroom provided by the Cabildo of Lanzarote in the Insular Library and that "over the next few weeks will bring together more than two hundred unemployed people from the Island, in morning and afternoon sessions".
The students of these courses will receive an official certificate that will serve for their insertion in the knowledge and professional experience section of the Canarian Employment Service and that will then facilitate access to other projects and programs that Funcatra has arranged online and carry out job searches inside and outside the Canary Islands.
