There are 85 million people in Latin America
Expo Live.. “Enclosed.com” is a social enterprise to provide “decent jobs” for people of determination
Enclosemy.com connects people of determination with job opportunities in companies committed to building inclusive and equitable workplaces.
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In Latin America, 85 million people of determination face discrimination and other barriers in their pursuit of educational and employment opportunities despite their keenness to improve their professional lives. As a result, three out of four people of determination are unemployed in those countries. the continent.
Inkloimi.com, a social enterprise that connects people of determination with job opportunities in companies committed to building inclusive and equitable workplaces, was founded by Gabriel Marcolongo in 2014, after his father struggled for two years to find a job due to his disability. During this experience, he started Marcolongo, in discovering how the exclusion of this group of people is a systematic issue throughout Latin America.
The Foundation, headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, qualified for the "Expo Live" program of "Expo 2020 Dubai", which supports projects that address the most pressing issues and the most impact on human life, and has more than 200,000 people of determination registered on its platform, training them The company places them in job opportunities in seven Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay), offers them an online training and qualification program, and better assists them in the recruitment process.
So far, the Foundation, which has cooperated and coordinated with major companies in those markets, has appointed 1,900 people of determination in roles across more than 100 clients of these companies, and trained 13,000 people with diverse abilities to integrate into the workplace.
The Foundation expands the online education and employment platform for its customers, by designing strategies and plans for integration in the workplace, and works with NGOs to create new solutions and develop training and educational courses for them.
By 2025, the Foundation says it seeks to employ more than 500 people of determination each month to work with 2,000 local and international companies in Latin America, based on its belief that an increasing number of companies are supporting inclusion programs, noting that the increasing diversity within teams leads To improve work culture and productivity.
The Foundation asserts that it aims to help people who have been told throughout their lives that they will always depend on their families and cannot live independently, adding that more people of determination are able to join the workforce, and that work environments themselves have become more open towards them, pointing out Her initiative has a snowball effect, and seeks to spread awareness and encourage the entire world towards this issue.
Last April, the Foundation began an ambitious step, which was to train people in the use of computer-aided design programs, and selected 18 applicants between the ages of 16 and 29 with basic computer skills, in the context of integrating these new students into a more typical learning environment, and the inauguration of The first unit is in Mexico City, a training institute for architects, designers and engineers.
The foundation says its vision will give people of determination across Latin America an equal opportunity to find a job like everyone else, a "decent job", through the mechanisms of universal assistance, working closely with their workplace and family.
It is absolutely true, that in some cases, when people of determination are employed (kinesthetic, visual, auditory, intellectual, psychological, social), it is necessary to make some adjustments to the work environment, in order to reduce the barriers that people may face during this, These adjustments may be expensive or take longer to start hiring for some cases, but it all depends on a clear context and a shared responsibility that companies, organizations and authorities bear together.
billion people
According to the International Labor Organization of the United Nations, the number of people with determination reaches about one billion people, or 15% of the world's population.
About 80% of those of working age, especially women, face enormous behavioral, material and media barriers that prevent equal opportunities in the world of work.
Compared to other people, they suffer higher unemployment, economic inactivity, and are more at risk of inadequate social protection, which is a key factor in reducing extreme poverty.
«Expo Live»
Expo Live, the Innovation Support Program for Social Impact from Expo 2020 Dubai, supports dozens of projects that have received Impact Innovation Grants, to work on finding creative solutions to pressing challenges, with the aim of improving people's lives, preserving the planet or both The program aims to create a tangible and measurable impact to improve the lives of people around the world.
awareness level
The world is currently witnessing an increasing level of awareness of development that takes into account the perspective of patients of determination, and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People of Determination encourages their full integration into their societies, as it refers, in particular, to the importance of international development in dealing with their rights in just and appropriate working conditions, on the basis Equality with others, including equal opportunities, equal pay for work of equal value, safe and healthy working conditions, and effective access to public technical and vocational guidance programmes, employment services, and vocational and continuing training, as stipulated in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Explicitly stating that the sick condition should not be a reason or justification for the inability to benefit from development programs or enjoy human rights.
The problem:
About 30 million people of determination in Latin America do not have a job.
The Solution:
An electronic platform that connects companies and people of determination.
Sector:
Argentina
Scope:
Latin America.