2015_11_24_reportaje_inclusion
Nine people with disabilities do internships at the University thanks to an inclusion project subsidized by Fundación Bancaria Caja Navarra.
The initiative, launched by Tantaka Inclusion and COCEMFE, has allowed one of these trainees to obtain an employment contract at business in Navarre.
Since September, nine people with disabilities are doing internships in different services and centers of the University of Navarra thanks to the subsidy that the Caja Navarra Banking Foundation granted in June to the project Tantaka Inclusion.
The aim is to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in the labor market, thanks to the effort and autonomy that they themselves develop. It also raises awareness in the university community and, by extension, in society.
Iñigo Echarte is the first of the nine people who are participating in this project that, even before finishing his internship at the University, has obtained a contract from a Navarrese business , in Elkarkide. There he works in the afternoons assembling boxes for donuts and packaging jelly beans. While in the mornings she combines this work with file work in the academic center. Office of the Registrar of the academic center.
He says that at the University he has taken the first step after a long time at a standstill and that here he has gained confidence. "It has been a new learning experience," he says.
Follow-up ensures that the internship is used to the fullest extent possible.The Federation of Associations of People with Physical and Organic Disabilities (COCEMFE) is the organization through which the selection of interns at the University has been channeled. (COCEMFE) is the organization through which the selection of people doing internships at the University has been channeled. COCEMFE encompasses 13 associations specialized in different types of disabilities. They unified the criteria to offer equal opportunities to the different candidates.
Each participant is assigned a tutor in COCEMFE full-time that accompanies him/her in the incorporation and integration into the team, in addition to a person in Tantaka Inclusion and manager of the Service where he/she is. This monitoring ensures that they get the most out of these internships.
Some beneficiaries
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▲ Miguel Sorroche, Service of Digital Communication |
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▲ Tutor: Ikerne Arizcuren, COCEMFE |
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"I would love to work here," Miguel Sorroche says confidently about his experience at Digital Communication. He is just one of them. He greets incoming students with the ease of someone who feels at home. For more than three months he has been reviewing the contents of the different social networks linked to the University of Navarra and has quantified the issue of his followers. But, without a doubt, what he enjoyed most was the transfer of more than 4,000 news items, from 1998 to 2008, which were still on the UNAV.es platform and which he himself has integrated into UNAV.edu. Ikerne Arizkuren is his tutor at COCEMFE. She has only positive words to say about him: "He is a hard-working boy, manager and eager to learn". He also assures that he has not had to provide on-site support at his work space because "he has managed very well", but has done so by telephone and e-mail. And he concludes: "Miguel has evolved a lot since he started the internship. He has managed to acquire job skills to improve his chances of finding a job". |
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Mass mailings, scanning images and transferring them to Power Point, collating lists from staff to Departments, stamping course syllabi and delivering internal mail are some of the tasks that Ángela Vázquez is carrying out during her internship at School Pharmacy. She herself describes it as "a very rewarding period" because it has helped her to realize that she has been "useful" to her colleagues. "I have learned to do tasks that I didn't think I would be able to do," she explains. Ana Rebaté is Ángela's tutor at COCEMFE. She says that her employment rate in this internship has been very easy: "She integrated from the very first moment and performs her duties very well". She also explains that her self-esteem has improved a lot. For this, she considers that the attitude of the professionals at School has been fundamental: "They are very kind and willing to collaborate". |
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