- 1,800 visitors have visited this space, which is part of a pioneering project in Europe.
- Inaugurated by the Mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, it employs two women over 40 years of age with disabilities.
- Commercializes objects and luggage lost on airplanes and at airports
Valladolid | June 18, 2018
Inclusion arrived six months ago at the Carrefour Parquesol Shopping Center in Valladolid when Carmila, a company specialized in the revitalization of shopping centers adjacent to Carrefour hypermarkets, and Envera, a non-profit organization that for 40 years has dedicated its efforts to the social and labor insertion of people with disabilities, decided to open Envera Punto de Inclusión, a solidarity space where people are given a second chance, and also to objects lost in airplanes and airports.
Envera landed in Valladolid last February with the inauguration of the Inclusion Point at Carrefour Parquesol in a ceremony presided over by the mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, and also attended by Ignacio Tremiño, deputy for Valladolid and spokesman of the Commission for Integral Disability Policies of the Congress; José Antonio Quintero, president of Envera; Carlos Pilar, commercial director of Carmila; María Cid, director of the Carrefour Foundation; and Envera's beneficiaries.
👁🗨 The @AyuntamientoVLL supports the social inclusion project of @Grupo_Envera_ and Mayor @oscar_puente_ attends the opening of a @PuntoDeInclusión in @CarrefourES #Parquesol
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- Ayto. de Valladolid (@AyuntamientoVLL) February 8, 2018
Since then, more than 1,800 visitors to Carrefour Parquesol have visited Envera Punto de Inclusión and have been able to join the social project of the organization through the acquisition of objects and suitcases lost in airplanes and airports, coming from the Envera recycling center. All of them, items disposed of in compliance with the Air Navigation Law and which, once the legal period has elapsed without being claimed by their owners, have been donated to the Envera project, which has created a solidarity recycling center to select those objects that are new and in perfect condition.
From baby strollers, Venetian masks, books in different languages, souvenirs from different parts of the world to musical instruments, tap shoes or a diving suit, are some of the many items that can be found in Envera Punto de Inclusión, a space from which it is possible to travel to any part of the world without leaving Valladolid.
The Carrefour Parquesol Shopping Center houses this third Envera Inclusion Point, after Islazul (Madrid) and Carrefour Ciudad de la Imagen (Pozuelo de Alarcón), a pioneering project in Europe through which Envera provides direct and stable employment to eleven people with disabilities and, indirectly, to more than thirty. In the case of Valladolid, two women over 40 are in charge of managing the Inclusion Point.
One of them is Silvia Rodríguez, who joined Envera Punto de Inclusión in February when the initiative arrived in her town. For Silvia, being able to work "means knowing that a person is worth something, being able to leave home, having independence and feeling useful".
For this 41-year-old from Valladolid, working is closely related to "physical, economic and mental well-being", although she recognizes that it is not easy to find a company that respects the diversity of what each person can do. "There may be work, but many companies still do not take into account the needs of their employees," Silvia assures while saying she is very happy since she started working at Envera: "In addition to a job opportunity it is a place where I am comfortable and very much at ease. It's personal economic benefit and by working for others I know I'm helping. That's very nice too."
After its first six months at Carrefour Parquesol, Envera Punto de Inclusión is known by the residents of Valladolid thanks, above all, to word of mouth. The social objective and the prices are the biggest attractions of this initiative. People really like the idea because it is for a good cause," says Silvia. "Most people take the items for the symbolic price, although some do make donations. Others are already regular customers, like a teacher who comes every week and takes material for his classes in a town near Aranda."
With Envera Punto de Inclusión, Carmila, Carrefour and its Foundation show their commitment to Envera's mission to make equal opportunities a reality and to enable people with disabilities to demonstrate that they too can be the best at something, a motto that has accompanied Envera for 40 years.
