The project is intended to recover and reforest degraded areas of the municipality with people in difficulty accessing work, especially young people and older people in need of hiring to achieve retirement.
The mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Marco Aurelio Pérez Sánchez, and the manager of the Canarian Foundation for Reforestation (Foresta), Sergio Armas Robaina, have ratified this Friday a collaboration agreement by which said environmental entity will launch a project and green employment plan in this municipality with a subsidy of 700.359 euros.
This project for the development of a green and social employment plan will last one year and will be coordinated by the Department of Parks and Gardens led by the councilor responsible for the area, Araceli Armas Cruz, and the delegate councilor Eduardo Armas Cruz. Its implementation will allow the temporary hiring of 24 people from different professional categories, specifically a technical engineer, an administrator, two foremen, three chainsaw specialists and 17 forestry workers.
The project is aimed at carrying out landscaping work and environmental recovery of green areas in the municipality, but it also has a training aspect and another for employability of young and old people who have difficulties finding work.
“The social aspect of this project seeks to increase the training of participants by providing specialized courses to increase experience and knowledge of green employment and help people join forestry activities,” says Araceli Armas. In this sense, the courses on occupational risk prevention in the environmental field and those on the installation of irrigation systems and the operation and use of forestry machinery stand out, all with a duration of between 40 and 50 hours. In addition, Foresta may also provide complementary training on work on slopes, pruning and climbing, depending on the needs of the green spaces in which it intends to operate.
The services and works that will be carried out with a working schedule of 37 hours per week are related to reforestation and forestry treatments to reduce the risks of fires and promote forest regeneration and the recovery and environmental improvement of degraded areas to which the City Council cannot serve due to the large size of the municipality and the limited resources available to the municipal Department of Parks and Gardens.
