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Envera is committed to the preservation of the Canarian garden as a job creation opportunity for people with disabilities and is implementing a training model that moves towards sustainability and care for the environment while having as its main objective the social and labor inclusion of the people it accompanies throughout their lives.

"We train people committed to the preservation of the environment and the sustainability of the unique ecosystems of the Canary Islands while providing them with professional training and job opportunities".

The mayor of Colmenar Viejo, Jorge García Díaz, and the general director of Envera - Association of Employees of Iberia Parents of People with Disabilities, Pedro Sobrino, have signed this morning a collaboration agreement to incorporate into the municipal staff eight people with intellectual disabilities from the occupational center of this non-profit organization to perform work experience for two months in different areas of the municipal corporation.

Francisco Celso tells how, before coming to Envera, a non-profit organization that works for the social and labor insertion of people with disabilities, he had tried unsuccessfully to find a job. Even after completing several training courses, Francisco, at 58 years old and with a disability behind him, was rejected several times in selection processes.

At the beginning of 2017, referred by FSC Inserta, an entity specialized in labor insertion, Francisco received a call from Envera to carry out the Seed Project training in Auxiliary Activities in Agriculture and Auxiliary Activities in Nurseries, Gardens and Garden Centers.

The delegate of Health, Safety and Emergencies of the Madrid City Council, Javier Barbero, together with the councilor president of the Municipal Board of Barajas, Marta Gómez de la Hoz, visited this morning the facilities of the Envera Group in Madrid's Airport district (Barajas).
de la Hoz, visited this morning the Envera Group's facilities in the Madrid neighborhood of the Airport (Barajas). In their tour they were accompanied by the general manager of the organization, Pedro Sobrino. This visit comes after the meeting held last January by the mayor and Sobrino to establish urgent road safety measures, following the
road safety, after the fatal accident suffered last October Jesus Almazan, one of the workers of the Special Employment Center (CEE) of Envera, and establish other collaborations aimed at social and labor integration of people with intellectual disabilities.

Beneficiaries of the Occupational Center, Day Center for Seriously Affected Persons and Residence for the Elderly of 45 years of age of the Integral Center for Disability of Envera have participated in the planting of 800 trees organized by the City Council of Colmenar Viejo and in which the President of the Community of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, was present.
In this act, framed in the Colmenarbol 2020 project that consists of the annual planting of 3,500 trees in Colmenar Viejo with the objective of incorporating 10,500 specimens on January 1, 2020, also attended by the mayor of the municipality, Jorge García and the president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero.

The Cepsa Foundation has presented its Social Value Awards in the Canary Islands, in a ceremony held at the Tenerife Refinery facilities, in which the Envera Coworking project has been awarded for being "a pioneering project on the road to equality, with which they will implement a social meeting point to offer unemployed people with functional diversity training, information and support in the active search for employment in the digital environment".

2017 was the year in which Envera celebrated the 40th Anniversary of its foundation and did so under the Honorary Presidency of Her Majesty Queen Letizia.

Four decades dedicated to working for the social and labor inclusion of people with disabilities, tearing down mountains of prejudice and with the goal of achieving a better and fairer society for all.

The technical team of AEDIS has visited today the facilities of the Integral Center for Disability that Envera has in the town of Colmenar Viejo, Madrid.

The heads of this business organization dedicated to the representation and defense of the rights of entities dedicated to the provision of assistance services and labor integration of people with disabilities, have known the activities carried out in the various lines of business of the Special Employment Center: document management, laundry, handling and recycling solidarity.