PROJECT DESCRIPTION "IT AND RECYCLING"

Four people have accepted the offer of spending 32 weeks (September 18, 2006 – May 18, 2007) participating in a practical IT education on full time conducted by Emmaus Fredriksdal. Along with an instructor they are learning how to in theory and praxis sell through the Internet. A large part of the time will be spent under the supervision of our mentors learning the practical and theoretical aspects of recycling.

Object and Goals
The project as such is aiming to provide people who for some reason or other are outside the labor market with better opportunities to reenter it and to a larger degree take part of society and so increase the labor force available.

By finishing the project the participants are expected to be better equipped to enter the common labor market, partly because they will have achieved specific experience and competence, foremost in the field of web based business, and partly because they will have gained work life experience in various trades.

Along with our collaborators we shall create the best possible conditions for the applicant to obtain employmentor take the initiative to start his own business based on the experience which the finished project will give the participant.

Our previous successful collaboration with Svalov Social Care system and Labor Market Unit vows for extended co-work in the future.Furthermore this is a pilot project meant to lead to deepened collaboration between Emmaus Frederiksdal and the Labor Market Unit, the Refugee Department and other actors in Svalov. The pilot project is also hoped to entail that Emmaus Fredriksdal, the Labor Market Unit and the Refugee Department in Svalov find a model of collaboration. In a wider perspective we are planning larger labor market projects leading to more employees within the community.

 

 

CHARACTERISTIC THEMES OF THE PROJECT

Equality
The project will be working towards increased equality between women and men, e.g. breaking the pattern of sex roles as to traditional areas of trade, as well as obviously treating all the project participants as individuals each with his own specific competence and background not steeped in stereotype gender roles and adherence.

Pursuant to this all the participants are going to try their hand at the several tasks and will be given education and practical experience within the entirety of the project’s competence areas.

Equality from other perspectives, for instance differences in ethnical origin and functional impairments will be considered and managed actively in order to demonstrate all individuals’ equal value and right to being treated equally both as applicants and in other social situations.

We strive to see to it that half the participants are women and the other half men. Half the labor force of Emmaus today consists of people of foreign derivation. Work is generally considered an important part of the integration and as the project is running its course the participants are going to gain insight into the life of the Swedish community and the norms and evaluations that lie at the root of the Swedish labor and family legislation.

IT and a Solid Development
As the project will to a large extent be working with recycled materials, obviously its focus is strongly upon a durable development, not just locally, but also on regional, national, and global levels.

This modus operandi aims to establish a wide ranged consideration for the environment, in the immediate as well as, farther on, in the long perspective. Actively collecting recycled material entails several gains environmentally and contributes towards a solid community development on many levels.

From an environmental and community economic point of view the work of collection means direct gains as much of the material gathered would otherwise have been dumped, causing its further handling to not merely inflict costs on the community but also to become a waste of the Earth’s resources. Such behavior we hold to be environmentally despicable as it will let out poisons in the environment and devour energy.

Regional and Local Development
Regional and local development will benefit from the cooperation with Kooputveckling in Skåne, with FR Design in Lund and with the community of Svalov. It creates an opening to the labor market, which will entail an improvement in social economy. As a successful pilot project it will create the foundations for several new projects which will be very important for a small size community like Svalov.The project is partly financed by the European Union/European Social Fund and meets the criteria for Power of Growth Objective 3, local development and engagement area 4.


More Information
 Contact Emmaus Fredriksdal to find out more about the project!
emmausfredriksdal@gmail.com