Carpentry is a vector to help regain a taste for activity and its obligations in terms of punctuality, know-how and regaining confidence. “At the same time, adds Marc Suarez, people who come to the workshop are accompanied to prepare a professional project. Some reveal a real taste for carpentry, but others prefer to go another way. »
Crates and cabins
The insertion workshop operates like a carpentry and responds to orders sent to it. It manufactures boxes of all sizes to meet specific demands. Their manufacture allows you to become familiar with a technical sheet and to learn about the first gestures of the carpenter. But the Atherbea workshop also knows how to make beautiful huts, like that of Barbara Peplow, the Karabana, Dunes beach, that of the Uhaina surf school, Corsairs beach. Green spaces and small building renovation activities have also been developed, allowing Atherbea employees to work on SNCF or Enedis facilities, among others. Its employees have also produced street furniture for Anglet and for the Bidart greenway. It also manufactures compost bins for communities and has filed a trademark patent for its 300-litre and 450-litre models.
Job objective
“Our goal is to return to work. “, emphasizes Marc Suarez. What the Atherbea workshop manages to do, in one form or another, in 60% of cases. “We have approval for two-year support, through six-month fixed-term contracts, renewable three times. »
Three trainers ensure the skills development of the employees, who can be up to 25 in the carpentry workshop and nine in the new kitchen and catering workshop, which opened recently. »
It feels good to be here and learn to work with my hands. And to no longer hear, around me, that I am lazy. »
Francky, 45, who arrived nine months ago, assures us that he did not know how to drive a nail when he arrived. “I worked in masonry, but I didn’t know anything about carpentry. I now want to continue, perhaps by doing a CAP. This workshop is really a good springboard. »
Christina nods. “I have been here for two years. As I’m 56, I can stay a bit longer. I trained for three days in the maintenance of green spaces. We all have a difficult journey with a long period of unemployment. It’s not easy to stay at home, telling yourself that you’re useless. »
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