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The Mayor of Colmenar Viejo, Jorge Garcia, and the Councillor for Social Policy, Elderly and Equality, Lara Rodriguez, have been received by the CEO of Envera, Enrique Grande, in the Comprehensive Center for Disability that this non-profit organization has in the municipality of the northern mountains of Madrid. The reason for the visit was the interest of the municipal councilor by people with intellectual disabilities and professionals Envera after a year of pandemic

The workers of Envera's Special Employment Centers in Madrid have received two financial education workshops given by Pedro Olivar, director of Multi-location Offices (OMU) of Banco Sabadell and Envera's collaborator, so that people with disabilities can improve the management of their family economy and personal finances.

The NGOs Envera and Aviación Sin Fronteras have sent a very special shipment to the "del Bosque" Soccer School, created by the former Atlético de Madrid player Limamou and in which more than ninety children participate, for whom soccer has become a means of inclusion and healthy leisure but, above all, to have a better future. These are a dozen suitcases full of sports equipment donated by the MAPOMA Sports Association, in addition to the first shipment made by Envera and Iberia last October. In total, more than 700 technical t-shirts, full tracksuits, backpacks, caps and raincoats have already been donated to the children of the Senegalese school sponsored since its inception by the former national team coach Vicente del Bosque, ambassador of thirty years of inclusive sports at Envera.

Envera has received 2,000 kilograms of chickpeas thanks to the support of the SEPLA-Ayuda Foundation, which have been donated by Javier González and Elisa Ostos with the collaboration of the Andalusian company Cereales Astigi. Sofía González, Javier and Elisa's daughter, as well as the presidents of SEPLA-Ayuda, Vicente Alonso Fogué 'Titón', and of Envera, Mr. José Antonio Quintero, have shown their satisfaction for this collaboration which has made possible to help about one thousand families.

Sofia Miranda has visited this Tuesday the headquarters of Envera in Madrid to see firsthand the social projects carried out by this non-profit organization both in the district and in the capital of Madrid, aimed at the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in society as a whole.

In addition, the visit was especially linked to the inclusive sport that athletes with intellectual disabilities from the Ícaro-Envera Club have been championing for 30 years to break down prejudices through sports.

In recent months, Pyteco has become one of the companies that provide the greatest support to people with intellectual disabilities, their families and Envera's professionals thanks to the donation of material to face COVID-19. Specifically, these are children's masks that have been distributed to the children assisted at the Early Attention Service and protective screens for Envera's workers.

Envera - Asociación de Empleados de Iberia Padres de Personas con Discapacidad, and the Fundación Hospital San José, have signed an agreement to jointly promote social and CSR actions and collaborate in the care of the most vulnerable people. This was agreed this Monday by the president of the Foundation, Manuel Galeote, and the president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero, in a ceremony held at the former San José Hospital in Getafe, which today houses various social services of the Madrid municipality.

Last Friday, Eduardo Pérez de Ayala, Director of the Central Area of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, and the President of Envera, José Antonio Quintero, inaugurated the 'Coca-Cola Space', which is already being enjoyed by nearly ninety people with intellectual disabilities, including residents and students of Envera.
It is a sustainable space located in the Envera Building, headquarters of this non-profit organization, and in whose realization have participated themselves people with intellectual disabilities along with more than thirty volunteers from Coca-Cola EP that over eight days of corporate volunteering have helped to raise both a garden surrounding the residence as a recreation area that also has hydroponic urban garden for conducting environmental workshops.