4 - 10 January 2001

ETC and Caritas sign cooperation agreement

The Employment and Training Corporation and Caritas have recently signed a cooperation agreement to ensure employment opportunity to rehabilitated drug abusers.
‘Employment for All, Caritas 2000’, starting on 1 January 2001, is a pilot project which provides personalised training services to Caritas clients, assists them in securing employment and offers research and specialist training to employees of the ETC.
The agreement was signed by ETC chairman and CEO, Dr Robert Tufigno and John Camilleri, respectively, and by Mgr Victor Grech, director of Caritas.
Upon signing the agreement, Dr Tufigno said that this agreement formed part of ETC’s efforts to ensure equitable access to employment for everyone, including former drug abusers. The chairman called for the lobbying in favour of the issuance of a clean Certificate of Conduct to fully certified rehabilitated drug abusers in order to ensure that they are not discriminated against for changing their life course to the better.
Mgr Grech said that this agreement was ETC’s recognition of Caritas good work and another milestone in the excellent relationship between the two organisations. Anglu Fenech, from Caritas, said records have shown that rehabilitated drug abusers who found a job after successfully completing the Caritas programme have remained in employment.
Present for the signing of the agreement, which took place at the ETC Head Office in Hal Far, were Felix Borg, ETC deputy CEO; Mario Falzon, ETC senior manager, employment services; Sue Vella, ETC consultant, planning and development; and Miriam Depasquale, occupational therapist at Caritas’s San Blas rehabilitation centre.