Canary Islands | January 19, 2018
The Cepsa Foundation has presented its Social Value Awards in the Canary Islands, in a ceremony held at the Tenerife Refinery facilities, in which the Envera Coworking project has been awarded for being "a pioneering project on the road to equality, with which they will implement a social meeting point to offer unemployed people with functional diversity training, information and support in the active search for employment in the digital environment".
The ceremony was attended by the Councilor for Employment, Social Policies and Housing of the Canary Islands Government, and co-president of the Jury, Cristina Valido; the Councilor for Social Action and Citizen Attention of the Cabildo of Tenerife, Coromoto Yanes; the Councilor for Social Affairs of the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Óscar García; the director of Cepsa in the Canary Islands, José Manuel Fernández-Sabugo; and the head of the Tenerife Solidarity Program, Beatriz Sicilia, as well as representatives and beneficiaries of the five winning entities, chosen from among the 58 that competed in 2017 to this solidarity call.
Envera was represented by Marta Cacho and Elisabeth Martín, directors of the entity's delegations in Las Palmas and Tenerife; Yolanda González, head of the Envera Coworking project in Las Palmas; Carlos Belenguer, employee of Cepsa and sponsor of Envera in this call; as well as employees and beneficiaries of the Envera Special Employment Center in Tenerife.
Fernández-Sabugo highlighted the magnificent work carried out by the 58 non-profit organizations presented in the Canary Islands for this edition of the Awards. "Once again we have come across very interesting proposals of great social significance. All of them deserved to be awarded, so the jury's work is always very complicated", he assured during his speech, while he congratulated the awarded associations for "representing the best values of society, which is why they are worthy of applause and that we should always keep them in mind".
The Envera Coworking project "aims to ensure that people with disabilities, like the rest of society, are at the forefront of technology applied to the
The Envera Coworking project "aims to ensure that people with disabilities, like the rest of society, are at the forefront of technology applied to the active search for employment," explained Marta Cacho when she received the award and thanked the Cepsa Foundation for supporting Envera's mission. Thus, "a social meeting point where training, information and support to find job opportunities in the digital environment is a reality for unemployed people with disabilities or those who want to find their first job and suffer from difficulties of adaptation and access to technologies and methods of active job search 2.0" will be launched.
