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Description
La Fageda is a social enterprise that produces dairy products and yoghurt more specifically.
The Special Employment Centre of La Fageda, created in 1984, employs people with mental disabilities
and/or severe mental disorders in La Garrotxa (Girona, Spain). They have a support program for
personal and professional rehabilitation in cooperation with physicians, psychologists and community
centers.
It offers them the opportunity to develop productive work in accordance with their abilities. It aims at
their labour and social integration, which is why it also provides personal adjustment services. The goal
is to improve their quality of life, and indeed, 75% of employees having a disability receive more than
the minimum wage.
The centre is organised into various sections, departments and services, all of which employ people
with a disability certificate. They are as follows: gardening, cow farm, dairy factory, jam production,
visitor center.
Major achievements
- It employs over 120 persons with disabilities and an extra 50 persons that had to retire from a previ-
ous job because of a physical impairment
- They have participated in the inclusion of 40 persons in other local companies
- La Fageda has received many private and public rewards, including one of the Generalitat de Catalun-
ya.
