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The Lukas Foundation has temporarily loaned Envera four electric tandem bicycles and an individual tricycle, all of them adapted so that athletes from Club Ícaro - Envera with reduced mobility and great support needs can enjoy the benefits offered by sports activities to improve their physical and cognitive abilities and as support for the therapeutic and physiotherapy treatments they receive every day at Envera's Integral Disability Center in Colmenar Viejo (Madrid).

On October 7 at 5:30 p.m., an Iberia plane left Madrid for Senegal with a very special cargo: several suitcases full of sports equipment for the "Del Bosque" Soccer School, created by former Atlético de Madrid player Limamou "Lima" M'Bengue, a native of Dakar, and in which more than ninety children participate, for whom soccer has become a means of inclusion and healthy leisure. Since its inception, the initiative has had the support of former national team coach Vicente del Bosque, ambassador of thirty years of inclusive sport at Envera.

Antonio Vázquez, Chairman of IAG (group that includes Iberia, British Airways, Vueling, Aer Lingus and Level), visited this Tuesday the Envera Building, headquarters in Madrid of Envera - Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities, a non-profit organization that was born 43 years ago in the heart of this airline and today is a consolidated reference and open to the whole society for the care and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the labor market.

The priority for Envera, a non-profit organization that has been working since 1977 for the social and labor integration of people with intellectual disabilities, is the welfare and protected employment of these people whom it accompanies throughout their lives. For this reason, Envera's Support Unit has launched a program to guide, advise and support the workers of its Special Employment Centers (CEE) who have been affected by the ERTE derived from the current situation caused by the global pandemic of COVID-19.

Envera delivers to the Food Bank of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria the last production harvested in the farm where they put into practice the knowledge acquired in the Certificate of Professionalism in Horticulture and Floriculture level 2.

The 15 students/workers of this project are people with disabilities who already have training in agriculture level 1 and opt to obtain 2 certificates of professionalism level 2 of the agricultural family, and training in labor orientation, occupational health and safety, how to create your own business, computer literacy and key competencies level 3.