Canary Islands | October 31, 2018
Envera and Fundación MAPFRE collaborate in the labor market insertion of people with intellectual disabilities through the program Juntos Somos Capaces (Together We Can), which aims to help people with intellectual disabilities and mental illness to get a job.
This program, promoted by Fundación MAPFRE and to which Envera has adhered since 2012, seeks to "promote relations between companies and social entities from an innovative approach in terms of equity and social cohesion" in the field of Competitive Social Responsibility (CSR).
Thanks to the collaboration agreement signed between both entities, Envera's beneficiaries have scholarships to carry out training internships in companies and improve their chances of entering the labor market.
Within the framework of this agreement, on October 19, a working breakfast was organized in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria with the participation of Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, the Canary Islands Health Service and Envera, aimed at organizations of the Canary Islands business network, in order to show success stories in the labor market insertion of people with disabilities.
Cases like that of Mamadou, a 33-year-old Malian who came to Spain in search of a better future and where, thanks to the training offered by Envera, he has found a job as a receptionist at the Hotel Paradise Lago in the south of Gran Canaria.
With this collaboration, Fundación MAPFRE and Envera hope to promote access to employment for people with intellectual disabilities or mental illness through internships in companies that improve their skills and help them demonstrate that we can all be the best at something.
Grupo Envera is a non-profit organization that has been working for more than 40 years for the social and labor inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, who are assisted throughout their lives with assistance and labor insertion services. It has offices in Madrid, Colmenar Viejo, Malaga, Barcelona, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, where it assists 2,500 people with disabilities per year and provides stable employment to more than 500.
