SOCIAL ACTION, POVERTY AND COOPERATION
Employment
The best job in the world: helping others to find work
”la Caixa” Foundation's Employment Integration Programme acts as a bridge between social organisations and companies, helps to raise awareness, actively seeks out employment opportunities and promotes social responsibility in companies.
Incorpora
Programme
Aimed at vulnerable people, victims of gender violence, people with a disability, with mental health issues, young people and those aged over 45.
Self-employment
Aimed at people at risk of social exclusion.
Reincorpora
Offers inmates the opportunity to build a new future.
Call for socio-occupational insertion
Projects for people who are disabled or socially vulnerable
This annual report explains the link between the programmes of ”la Caixa” Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
ACTIONS CARRIED OUT
Highlights
Achievements in 2019
In 2019, the ”la Caixa” Youth Employment programme, co-financed by the European Social Fund and "la Caixa" Foundation, completed a call for applications aimed at companies that hire young people aged between 16 and 29. More than 1,800 young people have been able to get stable, good quality employment.
In first person
Judit, 27 years old.
“When I finished my internship here, they hired me and I stayed because I knew I wanted to be a pastry chef.”
In first person
Ioan
“Because I like what I do, I wake up every morning enthusiastically wanting to go to work.”
In first person
Jessé Hidalgo
“My goal in the company is to be increasingly more autonomous and to assume more responsibilities, to repay the opportunity that I have been given and to become independent in my personal life.”
AT A GLANCE
2019, in figures
EMPLOYMENT INTEGRATION
SOCIAL
ORGANISATIONS
PEOPLE
ATTENDED
PEOPLE
INTEGRATED
PARTNER
COMPANIES
REINCORPORA
ITINERARIES
STARTED
SELF-EMPLOYMENT
MICROENTERPRISES
SET UP
Incorpora
Portugal
The programme has increased the number of social organisations in charge of promoting employment by socially responsible Portuguese companies.
Those at risk are young NEETs (not in education, employment or training), unemployed people over 45, former inmates, recovering drug addicts, victims of domestic violence and people with disabilities. The programme is implemented in collaboration with the Instituto do Emprego e Formação de Portugal.
AT A GLANCE
2019, in figures
INCORPORA PORTUGAL
SOCIAL
ORGANISATIONS
PEOPLE
ATTENDED
SPECIALISTS
PLACEMENTS
PARTNER
COMPANIES
