Roquetas de Mar Asperger’s workplace training collaboration

OPPORTUNITY: The aim is to help open the labour market door to people with Asperger’s. CREDIT: Ayuntamiento de Roquetas de Mar Facebook @AytoRoquetas

ROQUETAS de Mar council, the Almeria Asperger’s Association and the Mapfre Foundation have agreed to collaborate on municipal service workplace training practice for people with an intellectual disability.
The agreement signed this week comes under the foundation’s ‘Juntos Somos Capaces’ (Together We Can) programme, which has the specialist assistance of the Konecta Foundation.
Roquetas Mayor Gabriel Amat highlighted how the “union of three institutions can mean lovely and important actions which can benefit everyone.”
He continued, “Our mission in the municipality is to give the best services and to help the people who need their Town Hall, and we are satisfied that participating in a programme like this allows us to go deeper in this mission.”
Mapfre Roquetas branch manager Rita Marcelino D’Acosta commented that the foundation is “committed to the integration of people with a disability and their integration into the labour market.”
Asperger’s Almeria director Amparo Garcia Escarabajal explained that about half a dozen young people will benefit from the collaboration.
She said the participants were looking forward to getting started on the training opportunity, and said the association hoped that “in the near future they will, being perfectly prepared, be immersed in the working world.

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