Through the AgroEnvera project in Tenerife, students grow the food that is delivered to help underprivileged families.
Canary Islands | August 8, 2018
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.
The objective of the AgroEnvera project is the professional qualification of unemployed people with disabilities through a training contract so that they can obtain the Certificate of Professionalism in Auxiliary Activities in Agriculture and improve their chances of accessing the labor market.
María Soledad Otero, the local Red Cross representative, visited the students and workers of AgroEnvera and stressed the importance of this initiative to help people at risk of social exclusion. She also took the opportunity to thank the Envera team for their commitment to the social work they do.
The collaboration with the Red Cross dates back to May when the first food donations began. Now, three months later, more than one and a half tons of crops have been harvested and, as Envera points out, "the students can now proudly say that they are collaborating to help other people to get ahead while learning a profession that will facilitate their insertion".
Envera, an entity that was founded more than 40 years ago with the mission of achieving the social and labor inclusion of people with disabilities, offers training and job placement programs in its offices in Madrid, Colmenar Viejo, Tenerife and Las Palmas.
