Envera and MAPOMA have delivered nearly 17,500 food products to the Fundación Banco de Alimentos and Mensajeros de la Paz, destined for the people and families that these organizations serve in Madrid. These are drinks, such as water and juices, and foodstuffs that have been donated in 3,500 surplus runner's bags from the Zurich Rock 'n' Roll Running Series Madrid, which took place last April.
Fifteen unemployed people with disabilities have started their classes within the Agrojardín Envera Training Project in Alternation with Employment (PFAE), which started last March 24 and lasts for one year. This project, offered by Envera at its headquarters in Tenerife, is a mixed employment and training process in which participants obtain a training-apprenticeship contract as an agricultural laborer and for which they receive 75% of the Minimum Interprofessional Wage (SMI). This initiative is subsidized by the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy and the Canary Islands Employment Service.
Envera and Iberdrola have inaugurated the Dis-Friendly Classroom, an open-air, sustainable space made from recycled materials by volunteers from the company together with students with intellectual disabilities over several days that have taken place over the last six months.
The Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment of the Community of Madrid, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, visited this Saturday the Envera Laundry in San Fernando de Henares, a special employment center where about 140 people with disabilities work, 50% of them with intellectual disabilities.
The round table 'ESG, key to competitiveness in the industry' was held at the Industry LIVE Fair (IFEMA) in collaboration with Envera. It was attended by the Director of Sustainability of Iberia, the national representative of Airbus for sustainability and environment in Spain and the president of CPOnet, who have addressed the strategic importance of sustainability and other related issues in the process of industrial transformation.
Envera reminds people with disabilities of the importance of using the appropriate terminology to address them and CERMI focuses the celebration on the political participation of people with disabilities. This May 3, Spain commemorates the Day of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Magna Carta that is based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and aims to "promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities".
More than 34,000 runners of the Zurich Rock 'n' Roll Running Series Madrid, the most popular marathon, have flooded the streets of the capital this Sunday. Among them, ten athletes with intellectual disabilities, as the Envera athlete Daniel Rodriguez, have participated for the second consecutive year in the Dis-Friendly Relay Madrid Marathon thanks to the commitment of Coca-Cola and MAPOMA for inclusion through sport.
A group of seven Envera professionals, together with volunteers from the SEPLA-Ayuda Foundation and the NGO Guaguacuna, have traveled with the support of Iberia to Ecuador to collaborate in the training of teachers at the 'La Joya' School in Otavalo and in the intervention and assessment of its more than 90 children with disabilities.
The 'Good Morning Workshop' of the Day Center for People with Great Support Needs of Envera has been included as a good practice of cognitive accessibility by the Ministry of Family, Youth and Social Policy of the Community of Madrid, through the Directorate General of Evaluation, Quality and Innovation. The aim of the workshop is to work spatial and temporal orientation, cognitive accessibility and knowledge of all activities in which people with intellectual disabilities actively participate Envera
The delegate of Families, Equality and Social Welfare of the Madrid City Council and the councilman president of the district of Latina have presented today 'Madrid Incluye', the first guide that brings together all the resources available for people with intellectual disabilities in the city of Madrid and has been developed by Envera, a non-profit organization with over 45 years of experience in working for and with people with intellectual disabilities.
