The ONCE Foundation entity for training and employment, Inserta Empleo, has launched ‘Multiply yourself by 100’, a campaign aimed at promoting the employment of young people with disabilities, in spite of this time of health, social and economic crisis as a result of coronavirus, as reported by the foundation.
This initiative consists of a half-minute video made in rap, a language “widely used and shared” by young people, in order to reach the greatest number of them and encourage them to sign up on the employment platform, or if they have already done so, update their registration. It also offers them the possibility of contacting by phone with Inserta Empleo delegations distributed throughout the national territory, to be able to access, without any cost, the job offers that the Fundación ONCE is receiving throughout Spain.
According to the data collected by Odismet, 99,000 young people with disabilities (aged 16 to 24), are registered in Spain. Regarding their educational level, 62.4% have secondary education and only 5.2% have reached higher education degrees, compared to 13.4% of young people without disabilities.
For the foundation, this has to do with the “difficulties” they encounter in their training process for different reasons, among which they have highlighted “the lack of accessibility to centers or transportation and the poor adaptation of materials or methodologies of teaching”. In this sense, the ONCE Foundation has highlighted the importance of the accessibility of online training platforms, a modality that is being configured as a way of accessing “increasingly relevant” training.
According to Odismet, the relationship of young people with disabilities and the job market is fundamentally marked by the “high percentage” of inactivity detected among them (75.3%). Young people with disabilities have the lowest activity rate, which “can be linked to their lowest level of training.”
