Because no-one is unemployable, the Veolia Foundation supports initiatives and structures in places where Veolia is active that help people who have dropped out of mainstream society return to work or that strengthen social links.
The Foundation:
- supports projects that offer counselling, training, and social and professional integration through economic activity
- gives preference to innovative projects that trial new ways of creating employment and fostering social links
- focuses its support on projects that establish "bridges" between people in subsidized employment programs and the company's three business activities.
Highlight Project
TZCLD (Zero long-term unemployment districts)
The TZCLD (“Zero long-term unemployment districts”) programme is an innovative mechanism to put an end to long-term unemployment. It is based on the belief that the financial cost to society of unemployment can be channelled into creating jobs that meet local needs, thus combining economic development, social cohesion and the elimination of long-term unemployment in the district concerned. In practice, jobs are created through state-aided employment-oriented businesses (EBEs), which recruit people in long‑term unemployment on a volunteer basis, offering permanent contracts at the minimum national wage and with a choice of working hours. What do they do? They carry out work that is useful to the local community but has been abandoned by the traditional sector due to not being considered as sufficiently profitable.
The TZCLD zero long-term unemployment districts projects thus supplement, with proven success, the existing territorial dynamics of a return to employment, in particular those developed by the SIAE (structures for integration through economic activity).
