Our new premises keep on growing |
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As we told you in our last issue the construction of our new premises has already been completed and the building is raised. The financing part is being carried out through a campaign called "Sponsor a square metre" leaded by our patrons and friends of FIT.
This could'nt have been possible without the economical support of companies and individuals, the actual construction company and many other institutions and local authorities involved in it. |
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New shop in Clot district |
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We will soon have a new shopp “Farcells Roba-Amiga” in the Clot district, an area in Barcelona where we were not yet present. This opening is part of the growth project of FIT to increase our sales points.
The premises, of 320 sq. m is in Sibelius St. 9 between Mallorca and València streets, near the Clot Metro Station (Lines 1 i 2), right beside the Meridiana. We intend to have it open before Christmas.
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“Díns” signs an agreement with “ la Caixa “ |
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On September, the 8th Díns Garraf reached to a sponsoring agreement with “la Caixa” valued in 32.500 Euros as part of the financing that will help us to start and industrial laundrette in Vilanova i la Geltrú.
In the picture, you can see –on the left hand side the of the Poblenou Business Area Manager for “la Caixa”, Mr. Joan Torres, and the “Díns Garraf” manager, Joan Lluis Climent, in the signing of the agreement. |
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“Díns Garraf”: new garden services in Sitges |
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“Díns Garraf” has reached to an agreement with Sitges Town Hall to be in charge of the maintenance of five green areas in the town.
The person in charge of this project, with working expertise in gardening, is with us since last September. To cope municipals needs there is a group of four people being trained in order to make a team to carry out the jobs.
Part of the work includes maintenance, this is pruning, watering and leaf collecting in the green areas : trees, gardens and flower beds. One of the most important tasks will be taking care of the garden and tree areas by the seaside. |
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Visit |
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On October 1sr we received the visit of representatives of the Training and Job Board of the Conseil General Pyrénées-Orientales (Northen Catalonia) together with Carme Bañeres and Francesc Coll representatives of the Job and the Social Action Departments of the Generalitat de Catalunya. In the picture, the visit to our shop in Lledó St. |
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Alternative Measures: profit for the Community |
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The law provides now also for the possibility to access alternative measures even from liberty, for people with specific conditions, without entering prison in order to undergo an tailored treatment called Community Benefit Works (CBW).
FIT collaborates with CIRE (Centre for Insertion & Reinsertion) so that people avoiding imprisonment can work in our premises in the different activities the foundation has (workshops, shops, cloth selection, building maintenance, and so on) coordinated by the Training and Insertion department. |
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Mario Pagonabarraga, New President of Feicat |
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Mario Pagonabarraga, at the left of the councillor Mar Serna, together with Sara Berbel and other representatives of FEICAT. |
The new Federation of Insertion Companies of Catalonia –FEICAT- was born on April 24th , and has forty company members. The act that took place at the Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona was closed by Sara Berbel -director general Equal Changes at Work- and Mario Pagonabarraga, the new president of FEICAT. Pagonabarraga says that FEICAT is born to unify the Insertion Enterprises registered in the Work Department of the Catalan Government in one only federation to put goals in common.
This new federation is a result of the unifying of two other federations existing so far: Aires (Inter-sector Association of Social Collectors and Enterprises of Catalonia, and ACEI (Catalan Association of Insertion Companies). Other companies that did not belong to either of them have also joined the new Federation. All this is a result of the legislation changes occurred in January, the support given by the Work Department of the Catalan Government and the awareness of both platforms of a need of unifying both working areas. |
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| Cooperative Roba Amiga is Born |
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On February 4th the cooperative Roba Amiga was born. Initially known as a job insertion project through the use of second hand clothing. The act in where the presentation took place, in La Pedrera and presided by Miquel Perdiguer, director of the Obra Social de Caixa de Catalunya, Francesc Baltasar, councillor for enviroment and housing of the Generalitat of Catalonia and l’Imma Mayol, councillor for environment at 6 the Barcelona City Hall.
The program, integrated by six social enterprises including FIT, is based on the task made in these last years dedicated to the recovering and management of used clothing and the creation of new jobs for people in risk of social exclusion.
Thanks to this work it is possible to recover and recycle textile material that avoids accumulating this kind of waste in the territory. Its is calculated that the clothes consumption is between 7 and 10 kilos per person every year without counting on that amount generated by the own textile industry.
The other companies within the cooperative are: Adad (Olot), Recicla Girona (Salt), Recibaix (Cornellà de Llobregat), Solidança (Sant Joan Despí) and Hallazgos (Lleida). Its president is Josep Maria Elvira and the director is Àgata Soler-Roig.
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Sara Berbel Sánchez, Director General of Equal Job
Oportunities, witin the Job Department
of the Generalitat de Catalunya , visits FIT
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On Thursday 21st Sara Berbel visited our premises together with Emilia Pallàs Zenke, under Director of Job Policies for Diversity and Carme Bañeres Tuesta, Service Manager for Job Insertion, both of them also belonging to the Job Department of our local Government. |
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Changes in our Shop Signs
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Due to the starting of the Roba Amiga Cooperative our Farcells shops will renew their signs. Therefore, and in order to unify the signs of all the shops of the different institutions belonging to the cooperative, it has been decided that old logos should be kept and attached to the new one of Roba Amiga as you may see in the picture shown. |
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