The municipality of Yaiza has just finished its first theoretical and practical learning experience linked to the work that hired 45 residents for eleven months for three municipal projects, Home Help Services, Social Dynamization (Anima Yaiza) and Gardening (Embellece Yaiza), framed in the Alternating Training with Employment program (PFAE).
This program leaves a high degree of satisfaction among the students and the provision of their services, is the assessment shared by the City Council, direction and coordination of the program, teachers and citizens, which could be heard first-hand at the emotional closing ceremony and diploma delivery held last Friday at the Molino de Yaiza.
The mayor, Óscar Noda, guaranteed "the continuity of the three reference projects, with new students in a situation of unemployment, for which we already secured one million more euros from Spain and the Canary Islands, so I publicly thank the commitment and collaboration between the Ministry of Labor, the Canarian Employment Service and the City Council itself. The participants are now trained, prepared and excited to face new challenges in the labor market."
Precisely, training, work and personal growth are the aspects especially highlighted by the students of the three projects, fifteen for each of them, although the first PFAEs in Yaiza involved the linking of a total of sixty people, adding teachers and administrative staff. "The hours of learning in classrooms were carried out in the warehouse adapted by the City Council in Playa Blanca, while the practical work was done in different locations attending to municipal needs," says the Councilor for Employment, Rubén Arca. For his part, the technical manager of the Canarian Employment Service, Jorge Guevara, stressed that people are not only qualified, but also have the accreditation to provide services in the European Union.
The home help service is a particularly sensitive task very appreciated by the elderly beneficiaries, dependent people and their families. Elderly people who were afraid to walk and go out on the street did so with the help of the PFAE students with professional supervision. They recognize that apart from the immense help that the attention provided in their homes meant, the scheduled outings to parks or municipal premises to develop productive leisure activities, changed their routine ending boredom.
"It is very satisfying to see the progress of the elderly, to see their joy and their desire to always be active," said one of the students. The students learned and put into practice cognitive stimulation, hygienic-sanitary tasks, domestic chores and accompaniment to avoid unwanted loneliness.
In Anima Yaiza, the students were trained in the coordination and direction of activities aimed at children and young people for the use of free time. They carried out activities for the minors of the entire municipality, including summer camps, Christmas campaign, patron saint festivities, and collaboration with the enclave classroom of the CEIP Playa Blanca.
In Embellece Yaiza, a very demanded area such as gardening, students combined their theoretical classes with work in the street cleaning, planting and adapting gardens in different towns of the municipality, in addition to participating in the assembly of a greenhouse in La Degollada and acquiring knowledge about irrigation. For the students in general, the PFAE Yaiza are an opportunity to train and work regardless of age, but it is also an opportunity to make life in community being and feeling very useful to their municipality. The next eleven-month cycle will start shortly and Yaiza will make its call public.