- The initiative Click_Envera_ 2024. Accede al mundo laboral has been selected within the 'Convocatoria Social 2024' that promotes initiatives focused on the promotion of employment and occupational guidance, local development, social inclusion and care for dependency and accessibility.
- Project will help women with intellectual disabilities bridge the digital divide and improve their chances of finding employment
Gran Canaria | June 27, 2024
Envera will launch the project Click_Envera_ 2024. Access to the labor market in Gran Canaria thanks to the support of CaixaBank and Fundación La Caja de Canarias through the 'Convocatoria Social 2024', which has granted a grant of 2,900 euros to this social entity.
The objective ofClick_Envera_ 2024. Accede al mundo laboral is to provide career guidance and training in digital skills to five women with intellectual disabilities or mental illness to reduce the digital divide and improve their access to employment in an increasingly technological world.
The initial phase of the project will be an occupational diagnosis and knowledge of digital environments in which 15 women with no previous training in this field will participate. Subsequently, Envera will give five of them the course "Learn to manage your digital world " with a duration of 145 hours.
The objective of the 'Convocatoria Social 2024', launched by CaixaBank and Fundación La Caja de Canarias, is to promote initiatives focused on the promotion of employment and occupational guidance, local development, social inclusion and care for dependency and accessibility.
About CaixaBank's Social Action
CaixaBank is an entity with a profoundly social vocation, as well as a benchmark in socially responsible banking. Its attitude of service towards its customers and society in general is reflected in the promotion of social action programs and the encouragement of volunteer work, as a way of responding to the challenges that society demands.
CaixaBank Social Action promotes initiatives, activities and solidarity campaigns, some in collaboration with the "la Caixa" Foundation. Thanks to its presence throughout the country, its network of branches, the largest in Spain, is able to detect local needs and help from close proximity, as well as support the "la Caixa" Foundation in channeling financial aid to social entities. In addition, through its financial activity, the entity offers services and solutions for all types of people.
CaixaBank's responsible actions have been recognized by the main international organizations. The Dow Jones Sustainability Index ranks it among the best banks in the world in terms of sustainability and the international organization CDP includes it as a leading company in the fight against climate change.
About Envera
Envera is a non-profit organization founded 47 years ago by Iberia employees, parents of people with intellectual disabilities, whose transparency is accredited by the Fundación Lealtad, and which annually serves 5.It provides services to 5,000 people with disabilities and their families every year in its early care services, child and youth neurodevelopment, training, job placement services, occupational and day centers, residences and guardianship; it employs more than 900 of them in its special employment centers and trains more than 300 athletes (it belongs to Special Olympics); it has the support of 400 volunteers and has more than a hundred collaborating entities. The following are patrons of its Fundación Tutelar: Iberia, Airbus, Unisys and Hilario Alfaro (Madrid Foro Empresarial). It has centers in Madrid, Colmenar Viejo (Madrid), Barcelona, Malaga, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, and Inclusion Points in Madrid, Pozuelo and El Prat. Among its awards, it has the Gold Medal of the City Council of Colmenar, the Justice and Disability Award of the General Council of the Judiciary, the ABC Solidarity Award 2023, the National Award 2019 for Excellence in Labor Inclusion of People with Intellectual Disabilities and the Sustainable Company 2018 in the Influentials Awards of El Confidencial.
Envera leads the CSR roundtable at Madrid Foro Empresarial and works on Corporate Social Responsibility as a strategic element of competitiveness and differential value in the customer experience.
Envera impacts 11 of the 17 SDGs of the UN 2030 Agenda.
