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People with intellectual disabilities will be able to carry out training practices in dependencies of the Community of Madrid thanks to the agreement signed this Monday by the Regional Ministers of Presidency, Justice and Spokesman of the Regional Government, Ángel Garrido, and of Social Policies and Family, Carlos Izquierdo; and by Envera - Association of Employees of Iberia Parents of People with Disabilities.

The purpose of the agreement, which is valid until December 31, 2018 with the possibility of extending it for up to four more years, is to carry out training internships for people with intellectual disabilities in order to promote their social and labor insertion.

Envera has held for the eighth consecutive year the Solidarity Golf Tournament in order to support the social and labor inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. In this edition, the championship was held at the Nuevo Club de Golf de Madrid in Las Matas and was attended by the mayor of Las Rozas, José de la Uz, his councilor of Presidency, Gustavo Adolfo Rico, the general director of Envera, Pedro Sobrino, as well as Iberia and Pedro Núñez Morgades on behalf of Envera's patrons. The sportsmen of the Club Ícaro-Envera had a special role as caddies and collaborating in the organization of the Tournament.

Andrés Rodríguez came to Envera with one goal in mind: to train to get his first job. On the advice of his brother Eduardo, an alumnus of this organization dedicated to the social and occupational integration of people with intellectual disabilities, Andrés joined the Semilla Project, promoted by Envera in Tenerife, as a student.

During the 2015-2016 academic year, Andrés and fourteen other colleagues, all of them people with disabilities, worked to obtain the two professional certificates to which this training project gives access: Auxiliary Activities in Agriculture and Auxiliary Activities in Gardens, Nurseries and Garden Centers.

Envera has received the visit of professors from various universities in Japan, experts in social welfare and interested in learning about the policies and actions to support people with intellectual disabilities that are carried out in Spain.

Envera's general director, Pedro Sobrino, received them at the Association's headquarters in Madrid, where they were able to learn about the work Envera carries out accompanying people with disabilities from birth and throughout their lives, offering comprehensive assistance and becoming a support when it comes to social and labor insertion.

Envera - Asociación de Empleados de Iberia Padres de Personas con Discapacidad and the Asociación de Empresarios Hoteleros de la Costa del Sol (AEHCOS) have signed an agreement to collaborate in improving the quality of life of people with disabilities and to promote their social and labor insertion.

This was stated by the President of AEHCOS, Luis Callejón, and the General Director of Envera, Pedro Sobrino, during an event that took place at the headquarters of AEHCOS in the town of Torremolinos, Malaga, in which both expressed their commitment to promote social actions that favor the inclusion of people with functional diversity.

Envera, as an organization that is not only responsible for people with intellectual disabilities but for society as a whole, wanted to join The Company Games at the initiative of the Human Resources Department and the Sports Service.

During the weeks of the Games, a total of 25 employees and beneficiaries of various Envera services (Special Employment Center, Early Childhood Care, Occupational Center, Sports, Residence for the Elderly and Commercial Department) have participated in up to eight sports, winning a total of seven medals.

Envera has celebrated four decades as an Association with a big party at the Integral Disability Center in Colmenar Viejo in which employees, beneficiaries of the different support and care services and their families as well as very special guests participated. A 40th anniversary, under the Honorary Presidency of Her Majesty Queen Doña Letizia and the motto Todos podemos ser los mejores en algo, which is a dream come true for those pioneer parents, employees of Iberia, and a spur to go further and higher at the side of boys and girls, men and women with disabilities, our influential people.

When Beatriz and Jennifer arrived in early 2016 at the Envera delegation in Las Palmas, interested in the opportunities offered by this entity specialized in the socio-labor insertion of people with disabilities, they did not imagine what they would be able to achieve months later.

From the outset, both young women, aged 25 and 23 respectively, received personalized career guidance in line with their personal aspirations. After professional counseling, they decided to take the first step to begin a new stage, based on training, which would allow them to achieve the goals they had set for themselves.

Through this initiative, students in the fourth year of ESO can voluntarily spend between three and five school days at public or private organizations to learn first-hand about the activities carried out by the professionals who work there.

Envera wanted to join the 4th ESO+Enterprise project in collaboration with the Raimundo Lulio School and the Nuestra Señora de las Nieves School, hosting for three days two students, Raquel and Elena, from the former, and a student, Alberto, from the latter.