- David Pérez has announced new internships for people with intellectual disabilities at the Coslada Transportation Center and at the Community's interchanges.
Madrid | May 23, 2022
The Minister of Transport and Infrastructures of the Community of Madrid, David Pérez, and the President of Envera, José Antonio Quintero, have presented diplomas to the last four students with intellectual disabilities who have completed their internships in the Ministry, thus recognizing the work they have done in facilities such as the Central Archives of the Ministry or the General Directorate of Roads. New students will soon be incorporated thanks to the agreement signed between Envera and the Community of Madrid to improve the opportunities to access employment through these training practices.
Silvia Pina, Álvaro García, Francisco Núñez and Mario Sánchez have become the new Envera students who have successfully completed their internships at the Department of Transportation. Thanks to this initiative, more than half of the students in the Destination Employment program program have been able to learn first-hand about the workings of the public administration and improve their résumés.
In the words of the students themselves, they have learned, among other tasks, "to delete, release and verify documents and to organize files on the computer. We all worked as a team and enjoyed it very much.
During the presentation of the diplomas at the headquarters of the Regional Ministry, Mario Sanchez was in charge of speaking on behalf of his colleagues and especially thanked the support provided by the officials who have accompanied them during these three months: "We are sure that everything we have learned will help us to get a decent job, which is what we are pursuing".
For her part, Envera teacher Carolina Muñoz, wanted to address the attendees to emphasize the importance of internships in public administration for students with intellectual disabilities and that they are a "key element" of Destination Employment, as "they learn to cope in the world of work, improve their curriculum and help them when preparing for competitive examinations".
"We all know that there is no social policy more important than that which promotes employment", said the president of Envera to thank the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Diaz Ayuso, because "we have always been able to count on her in our journey of life with people with intellectual disabilities", and has ensured that "for our students, perform training practices in the Ministry that directs David Perez, is to take a giant step in that direction", highlighting the "exemplary" of the Community of Madrid as a public administration "that is placed at the forefront of a global society where it is not possible to move forward if left aside a part of it" and "that has in public servants, as the excellent professionals who have accompanied these months to our students, its great strength".
Pérez thanked the group of young people for their work in the tasks of registration, filing and general administrative support in different units of the Regional Ministry and the Regional Transport Consortium and stressed that initiatives like this help to promote equal opportunities and remove obstacles to their inclusion in the labor market.
