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For most people, the summer season evokes rest and holiday retreat with which many want to leave aside, at least temporarily, work and studies. This is not so for the people who make up Envera, an association that for more than 40 years has been accompanying people with intellectual disabilities throughout their life cycle, providing them with Support and Care Services and employment. For this non-profit organization summer is a time of opportunities. So much so that in recent weeks and only in its delegation of Gran Canaria, seven people with disabilities have accessed a job in ordinary companies.

The Mayor of Colmenar Viejo, the Councilor for Sports, the general director of Special Olympics Spain, the managing director of Special Olympics Madrid and the general director of Envera, presented this morning at the City Hall the II Special Olympics Tournament of women's basketball to be held at the Comprehensive Disability Center of Envera from 23 to 25 November and in which fifty athletes with intellectual disabilities from Castilla y León, Castilla - La Mancha, Catalonia and Madrid will participate. The Tournament, which also includes an exhibition of rhythmic gymnastics, is part of the Women and Disability project of Special Olympics and that for Envera is also a "double priority".

Islazul Shopping Center, in its dedication to collaborate in actions that promote the inclusion of people with disabilities, has hosted the III Inclusive Fashion Day, organized by Envera, a non-profit organization whose mission is the social and labor integration of people with disabilities and which commemorates its 40th anniversary under the honorary presidency of Her Majesty Queen Letizia.

The President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, visited this Wednesday the headquarters of Envera in Tenerife to learn first-hand about the Agro-Envera program, a training project in alternation with employment in which 15 young people with disabilities over 30 years of age participate. Upon his arrival, the president was received by the director of the Canary Employment Service, Sergio Alonso; its deputy director of training; Dunnia Rodríguez; the mayor of the City Council of Tacoronte, Álvaro Agustín Dávila; the president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero; and the director of the Envera delegation in Tenerife, Elisabeth Martín.

The president of the Community of Madrid, Ángel Garrido, presided over the inauguration of the Envera Building together with the general director of the Montemadrid Foundation, Cristóbal Sánchez, and the president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero. The new center, located in Bahía de Pollensa street, in Madrid, has 48 residential places with an occupational center, of which 45 are public, as well as training classrooms and a job placement service for people with intellectual disabilities.

After verifying full compliance with the 9 Principles of Transparency and Good Practices, Fundación Lealtad has renewed the Accredited NGO Seal to Envera - Asociación de Empleados de Iberia Padres de Personas con Discapacidad (Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities). In this sense, as José Antonio Quintero, president of Envera, explains, "transparency and good practices are the cornerstone of Envera, a value inherent to its raison d'être. We must be accountable to our donors, patrons, users and benefactors, not only for the fulfillment of our mission through a service of the highest quality, but also for the legality, ethics and efficiency that must govern the use of every last resource. Therein lies our credibility and our reputation".

The Cabildo de Gran Canaria has become the first Spanish institution to sign an agreement with Envera - Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities, to promote from the public sector the establishment of the Disfriendly seal, which aims to promote the integration of people with disabilities in the hotel and tourism sector.

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.

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 Inclusion Point, a solidarity space where people are given a second chance, as well as 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 the Valladolid capital, Óscar Puente, and which was 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.