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Almería branch of FCC Medio Ambiente
entered into an agreement with ASTUS
(Asociación Tutelar de la Persona con
Discapacidad of Cartagena) to launch the
“Employment with Support” project to pro-
mote the inclusion of people with disabilities
in the company’s workforce and ensure that
they had the necessary support during their
training, recruitment, assessment, monito-
ring, and mediation phases.
In the first phase of this project, the com-
pany and the association look for and deci-
de the appropriate profile for any existing va-
cancy, firstly for a practice period and then to
occupy the vacancies. In the final selection,
gardening experience was required as well
as the incorporation of someone who had
worked with the disabled youth as a monitor.
The objective of the project was not for
these individuals to work accompanied by
someone who did not have a disability, but
rather to create a group of workers who had
some sort of disability and which could be
taught, thanks to training courses, a trade,
as explained by Pedro Cifuentes, the head
of the Parks and Gardens Department in
Cartagena.
The first recruits were assigned to the land-
mark Parque Torres and Parque de las Cor-
nisas, a point of landscape, culture, environ-
ment, and social reference and one of the
key structural elements of the city of Carta-
gena. The following recruits were for jobs in
other parts of the city thanks to the positive
experience at Parque Torres.
Both Parque Torres and Parque de las Cor-
nisas are currently being maintained by inte-
llectually disabled personnel. This is where
Doming, Pedro, Tomás, and Paco are wor-
king, all of whom have gardening training
and experience and are example, jointly with
their monitor, Alberto, of capability based a
respect and empathy.
