Anchored in the field of professional reintegration since 1998, ProActif fights against socio-professional exclusion in Luxembourg. Training is the watchword of this constantly expanding organisation. For 25 years, ProActif, in collaboration with the Agence pour Développement de l’Emploi (ADEM), has been supporting and training its beneficiaries in the craft trades, to enable them to re-enter the labour market.
Active in this field since 1998, ProActif joined the Impact Luxembourg Label community in 2022. This label accompanies the evolution of the ASBL into a Societal Impact Company (SIS). This change in legal status simply reaffirms the constant development of this SIS, which is adapting to the needs of the times, its beneficiaries and the labour market.
Moreover, becoming an SIS “has enabled us to strengthen our role as an economic player in the employment market”, explains Norbert Conter, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ProActif. He adds that this change has improved our understanding of the labour market and how best to adapt to it, by enabling “more intrinsic collaboration with other economic players in Luxembourg, in particular private employers and local authorities.
This SIS offers professionals and private individuals a ‘constellation’ of diverse and varied activities and services. By choosing ProActif, you can enjoy a delicious meal in their restaurant, have some old wooden furniture restored, freshen up the paintwork in your house or even give your garden a (green) boost, while giving people back on the labour market a chance to learn on the job.
As well as practical training in a field that suits them, the beneficiaries also take part in social training courses, which enable them to acquire the tools they need to find a job but also to flourish in it. It is this human development that, according to Sabrina Finck, Executive Assistant at ProActif, embodies the value of this SIS with its big heart. The most important thing is to see someone who hasn’t had much luck or who didn’t have a positive outlook on life evolve until they are able to achieve a level of pride and self-confidence,” she says. The social training courses provide tools for writing a CV, presenting yourself to an employer, managing a budget and many other aspects involved in a process of sustainable professional development.
Although they all follow social values, ProActif’s initiatives are also intended to be environmentally friendly. The principles of the circular economy can be seen in its management of food products. Two of the training courses on offer relate to this sector: catering, at its “Zopp & Z’iessen” restaurant in Contern, and the “Aus eisem Gaart” vegetable garden, which is run in collaboration with wholesaler La Provençale. The unsold food from this initiative is taken to the restaurant’s kitchens, where ProActif’s team of professionals and beneficiaries transform it into succulent dishes using traditional Luxembourg know-how.
This initiative, which has a wide-ranging social impact, contributes to the professional reintegration of an average of 20% of the beneficiaries each year, i.e. an average of 120 people. Supporting this SIS is very simple. All you have to do is think of ProActif when you do your next carpentry, locksmithing, gardening or painting job, or even do your shopping. Why not buy “Aus eisem Gaart” vegetables when you see them in your supermarket. These will be labelled with a green watering can if they are organic, and a blue watering can if they come from integrated farming, in complete transparency. To see the full range of services offered by ProActif, go to https://www.proactif.lu/fr/
