Madrid | February 16, 2018
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 Grupo Envera 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 follows the meeting held last January by the mayor and Sobrino to establish urgent road safety measures, after the fatal accident suffered last October Jesus Almazan, one of the workers of the Special Employment Center (CEE) Envera, and establish other collaborations aimed at social and labor integration of people with intellectual disabilities.
The councilors have had the opportunity to attend, through the mirror room, some of the treatments that are dispensed to children in the Early Care Unit, and have visited the training room, where students enrolled in ESO and in the Crece Formándote Program have shared with visitors their concerns. Javier Barbero congratulated them "for showing us every day the dignity that people with disabilities have, because we all have difficulties, but that does not prevent us from achieving what we set out to do".
Also, the delegate of Security has committed with them to place a traffic light at the crosswalk at the traffic circle that connects the Airport neighborhood with the Alameda de Osuna, through the Avenida Real de Merinas. On the other hand, the councilwoman of Barajas has explained the police surveillance that has been established during the peak hours of departure and entry of students and workers (7 and 9 am, 14 and 15.15 pm, and at night, between 21 and 21.20) and that has been in operation every day for two weeks.
Later, Barbero and Gómez de la Hoz met with the workers of the Envera EWC, who expressed their concern about the lack of lighting on the roads, the speed with which many vehicles access the traffic circles, as well as the problem of the lack of salt and the accumulation of ice on the sidewalks with the consequent risk of slipping. The two mayors pledged to address their suggestions and do everything in their power to increase safety at the entrances.
For his part, Pedro Sobrino thanked the two municipal representatives for their interest and the measures that have already been taken, such as the regulation of crosswalks by Municipal Police officers during rush hour, and offered them his full cooperation so that Barajas, where Envera has been operating for 40 years, continues to be a model of social inclusion.
