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The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, visited this Wednesday the headquarters of Envera in Tenerife to learn first-hand about the Agro-Envera program, a training project in alternation with employment in which 15 young people with disabilities over 30 years of age participate. Upon his arrival, the president was received by the director of the Canary Employment Service, Sergio Alonso; its deputy director of training; Dunnia Rodríguez; the mayor of the City Council of Tacoronte, Álvaro Agustín Dávila; the president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero; and the director of the Envera delegation in Tenerife, Elisabeth Martín.

The president of the Community of Madrid, Ángel Garrido, presided over the inauguration of the Envera Building together with the general director of the Montemadrid Foundation, Cristóbal Sánchez, and the president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero. The new center, located in Bahía de Pollensa street, in Madrid, has 48 residential places with an occupational center, of which 45 are public, as well as training classrooms and a job placement service for people with intellectual disabilities.

After verifying full compliance with the 9 Principles of Transparency and Good Practices, Fundación Lealtad has renewed the Accredited NGO Seal to Envera - Asociación de Empleados de Iberia Padres de Personas con Discapacidad (Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities).

In this sense, as José Antonio Quintero, president of Envera, explains, "transparency and good practices are the cornerstone of Envera, a value inherent to its raison d'être. We must be accountable to our donors, patrons, users and benefactors, not only for the fulfillment of our mission through a service of the highest quality, but also for the legality, ethics and efficiency that must govern the use of every last resource. Therein lies our credibility and our reputation".

The Cabildo de Gran Canaria has become the first Spanish institution to sign an agreement with Envera - Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities, to promote from the public sector the establishment of the Disfriendly seal, which aims to promote the integration of people with disabilities in the hotel and tourism sector.

Envera has donated more than 1,500 kilos of food to the Red Cross thanks to the work carried out by the students of the AgroEnvera training project developed in Tenerife with the support of the Canary Islands Employment Service and the Ministry of Labor.

The donation, which aims to help the most disadvantaged families in the Tacoronte Acentejo region of Tenerife, comes from the agricultural and ecological production that Envera students learn to grow during their training. Among this varied production are lettuce, zucchini, chard, bubangos, potatoes, millet pineapples, peppers and other fresh and quality foods that can provide nutritional value to the people who receive them.

Inclusion arrived six months ago at the Carrefour Parquesol Shopping Center in Valladolid when Carmila, a company specialized in the revitalization of shopping centers adjacent to Carrefour hypermarkets, and Envera, a non-profit organization that for 40 years has dedicated its efforts to the social and labor insertion of people with disabilities, decided to open Envera Inclusion Point, a solidarity space where people are given a second chance, as well as objects lost in airplanes and airports.

Envera landed in Valladolid last February with the inauguration of the Inclusion Point at Carrefour Parquesol in a ceremony presided over by the mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, and also attended by Ignacio Tremiño, deputy for Valladolid and spokesman of the Commission for Comprehensive Disability Policies of Congress; José Antonio Quintero, president of Envera; Carlos Pilar, commercial director of Carmila; María Cid, director of the Carrefour Foundation; and Envera's beneficiaries.

After a total of 563 laps of the Jarama circuit, the Envera Ford Fiesta ST managed to be the second classified of the XV Edition of the 24 Hours Ford thanks to the strategy and, above all, to the joint work demonstrated by the members of the Envera team, with the support of El Confidencial and with the ambassadors Ángel Expósito and Jesús Álvarez at the head.

Both journalists led the team made up of drivers from Autopista.es, Men's Health and Ford, as well as Envera beneficiaries, professionals and collaborators who were also present during the 24-hour competition that began at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 6.

Photographer Antonio Martín, with intellectual disabilities and member of the Envera association, has been taking portraits of the residents of the Alameda de Osuna neighborhood for more than twenty years. The exhibition, curated by Mingote award winner Miguel Berrocal and organized with the support of Iberia and the Madrid City Council, can be visited until August 26 at the Gloria Fuertes Cultural Center in the capital as part of PHotoESPAÑA 2018.

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".