VILLA PERLA SERVICE….…a social cooperative type B

Giovanna Maranzana 28/01/07 VILLA PERLA SERVICE

• Is a social cooperative type B
• Founded in 1994 in Genova (Italy)
• 220 employees (members)
• 83 disadvantaged people
• 5 million Euros as turnover

C.R.E.S.S.(Consorzio Regionale Servizi Sociali)

• Member of Regional Consortium of Social Services is composed of
• 9 Social Cooperatives type A
• 2 Social Cooperatives type B
• 2000 employees
• 30 million Euros as turnover

Our activities…

• Catering
• Meals for public schools
• Meals on wheels for elderly people
• Cleaning and food preparation in homecare for elderly and disabled people
• Laundry service for public homecare for elderly people
• Global service for industry and public administration
• Front office and concierge services
• Secretarial and telephony services
• Parks and ground maintenance
• Beaches cleaning
• Car parking managing

Disadvantaged people

In these years in our Cooperative have been enclosed many dozens of disadvantaged people,with different kind of disease.

Many of them had big and various problems,although they were not certified and belonging to the categories recognized by law.

The social cooperatives are going to respond to the new needs and kind of disease,growing up in our society and they become more and more an important reference point for the local community.

Other categories

Beyond the categories mentioned by the law other disadvantaged people included in our cooperative are

• People with social economic disease;
• Families with just one income;
• Women with dependants children;
• Immigrant people;
• Persons with light handicaps which are not recognized as such.

Aims

The goal of including disadvantaged people at work is to include them at work and at the same time in social life.

There is a social value in this mission,because the person is integrated in a wider rehabilitation and educational project.

How we do this work

There is a Responsible person for inclusion of disabled and disadvantaged people,related with the local social services.Together they match the person with the cooperative and they find out the most adequate job.(Kind of job,working group,duration time,daily working time...) They prepare a project of social inclusion

At the beginning the disadvantaged person works with other people,one them become the tutor for the inclusion project.

During this“on the job” training period,the disadvantaged person and the tutor meet once in the month with the Responsible person of the cooperative and the Responsible person of the local social services,in order to monitor and verify the inclusion project.

Usually the duration of this process is 6 months(renewable).

During this period the cooperative has any charge for the person,while he receive some grants from the social services.

At the end there is a general evaluation of the person and the project;with positive evaluation the person is employed in the cooperative in a regular way,with a regular employment contract.

After some months he/she become member of the cooperative and he/she can participate to the general assembly with election rights.