Uusix-workshops is a rehabilitating unit of Helsinki city social services
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There are about 300 persons working in the Uusix-workshops. Half of them are in the rehabilitating program the rest being trainees or subsidied- and permanent staff. In the Uusix-workshops there are eleven workshops: ceramics and jewellery, metal, dressmaking, Painotex, bicycle, woodwork, construction, textile, it, upholstery and recycling of building materials. Painotex- and it-workshops are directed to the young adults.
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History
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UUSIX-workshops is located in Kyläsaari in the premises of an old waste incinerator. Kyläsaari used to be an island as its name indicates. In 1961 a waste incinerator was founded in the backfilled area. In due time it caused severe effects in the environment: flue gas contaminated the air and ash spread in the surroundings. A citizen movement rose to oppose the incinerator and it was closed in 1983. Five years later it's landmark, the high pipe, was blown down.
Uusix-workshops was founded on the 9th of December in 1997 in the renovated premises of the old incinerator. However, already in 2001, Uusix-workshops was facing a threat of abolition. Fortunately the act on rehabilitating work came into effect the very same year and Uusix-workshops was pointed to be one of the rehabilitation units of the city of Helsinki.
In December 2001 did the first employee start in the rehabilitating program.
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