- The event will be attended by the Mayoress of Isla Cristina, Montserrat Márquez Cristóbal; the Councillor for Disability and Women of Isla Cristina Town Council, Ana María Vieira Contreras; and the Head of Employment Promotion Service of the SAE in Huelva, Pedro Ruiz Acevedo One.
- In six people in the European Union has a disability, which adds up to some 80 million people who are often unable to participate fully in society.
The Provincial Federation of Associations of People with Physical and Organic Disabilities of Seville (FAMS-COCEMFE Seville) represents more than 125,000 people with disabilities and their families in Seville and province, and through the Erasmus+ programme co-financed by the European Union, organises next Thursday and Friday 9 and 10 May, the conference ‘Laboratory of ideas on employment, accessibility and participation of young people with disabilities’, framed in the Empower Youth Without Limits Project.
They will be held at the Hotel Ilunion Islantilla in Huelva, located on Avenida Islantilla s/n, and will begin at 9.00 am with the opening ceremony, where the Mayoress of Isla Cristina, Montserrat Márquez Cristóbal, will inaugurate the conference. The Head of the Employment Promotion Service of the Andalusian Employment Service (SAE) in Huelva, Pedro Ruiz Acevedo, will also participate. On Friday, the Councillor for Disability and Women of the City Council of Isla Cristina, Ana Maria Vieira Contreras, will close the meeting. All of them are representatives of Public Administrations interested in the problems of access to employment for young people with disabilities.
This activity, in which thirty young people aged 18 to 30 with disabilities participate, has the collaboration of the Isla Cristina Town Council through the Mancomunidad de Islantilla; and the Spanish Sailing School, which make possible the development of a nautical and adapted activity with catamarans in the waters of Islantilla. This is an initiative in which people with disabilities and reduced mobility have access to this type of boat in a pioneering way.
The aim is to encourage the participation of young people with disabilities in public life, to improve youth employment policies and access to the labour market, discovering through their testimonies the barriers that mainly prevent them from doing so.
The participants of this project will also acquire competences, skills and abilities that will be fundamental for their personal, professional and social enrichment, especially for their empowerment in society.
One in six people in the European Union has a disability, amounting to some 80 million people who are often unable to participate fully in society and the economy because of physical barriers and the attitude of the rest of society. Among them, young people with disabilities are a particularly vulnerable sector of the population, mainly due to the few employment opportunities present in the current market (with an unemployment rate of over 60%), which prevents these young people from fully integrating into society, according to data from the Olivenza Report 2017 on the general situation of disability in Spain, by the State Disability Observatory.
The result of actions of this kind is to compile all the conclusions drawn from the working groups and workshops with young people with disabilities as a stimulus for the action of political representatives and public administrations in the development of measures to remedy the problem of access to employment for young people with disabilities.
