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The close collaboration between Salesforce and Grupo Envera was once again exemplified in an activity organized last Friday at the Air Museum. Professionals from the Salesforce Corporate Volunteering program prepared a day for Grupo Envera and the Juan XXIII Foundation in which nearly 70 people from our organization participated.

Project DIGITAL14 of Grupo Envera - APMIB is a training course leading to the certificate of professionalism in recording operations and processing of data and documents whose recipients are unemployed people who have a certificate of physical, mental and/or sensory disability equal to or greater than 33%. The Project, which runs from January to December 2015, has a total duration of 1,026 hours of theoretical and practical training, including 80 hours of in-company training.

The students of the Secondary and Vocational Training Program developed by Envera - Association of Iberia Employees, Parents of People with Disabilities have been received this Monday by Soledad Becerril at the Ombudsman's headquarters in Madrid. The students have learned the functions performed by the Institution in order to "protect the rights of citizens and human rights", as explained by the Ombudsman.

Children of the Early Attention Program developed by Grupo Envera - APMIB have posed with Atlético de Madrid players to illustrate the solidarity calendar that the red and white Foundation publishes every year. The presentation of this calendar took place today at the Vicente Calderón stadium and was attended by representatives of the Community of Madrid, Atlético de Madrid and the entities that have participated in the calendar, including Grupo Envera, represented by its general manager, Pedro Sobrino. Gabi, captain of "atleti" did not want to miss the event either, who signed several autographs with the children, the real protagonists of the calendar, and who were able to share this day with their families.

The program La Tarde de COPE, directed and presented by journalist Ángel Expósito, dedicated one of its sections this Thursday to the International Day of Disability, giving the opportunity to people from Grupo Envera to tell their daily lives, their stories and experiences. The interviewees, technicians in social and labor integration and users of our centers in Colmenar Viejo, explained their personal vision of the world of disability and also their dedications.

This Tuesday took place at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando the award ceremony of the VIII Justice and Disability Forum Awards, organized by the General Council of the Judiciary and chaired by Her Majesty Queen Letizia. Students from Grupo Envera's training program attended the event, representing this group to which the Justice and Disability Forum dedicates its work. The Queen was joined by the President of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary, Carlos Lesmes; the Minister of Justice, Rafael Catalá; the Attorney General of the State, Consuelo Madrigal; the Ombudsman, Soledad Becerril; and the Director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Fernando de Terán.

The President of the Community of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes, visited today the facilities of Grupo Envera - APMIB located in the Madrid town of Colmenar Viejo to give her support to people with disabilities and reiterate her commitment to the development of a strategy to provide comprehensive care to people with "different abilities". The president of Grupo Envera, José Antonio Quintero, and the general manager, Pedro Sobrino, received the president, who was accompanied by Carlos Izquierdo, Minister of Social Policies and Family, Jorge Jiménez, general director of Attention to People with Disabilities, and Miguel Ángel Santamaría, mayor of the Madrid town.

Since 1992, this day has been celebrated as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, which in 2014 had as its theme "Sustainable Development: The Promise of Technology". For Grupo Envera - APMIB, in its commitment to ensure that all people enjoy a full quality of life through the social and labor insertion of people with disabilities, this is an important date that also coincides in proximity with another important milestone for us: International Volunteer Day (December 5).

On November 6, the Municipal Plenary of the Town Council of Colmenar Viejo unanimously adopted the award of the Medal of the Town in the gold category to Grupo Envera - APMIB "in recognition of the work it has done over the years for the social and labor integration of people with disabilities". This Sunday, November 22, on the occasion of the Day of Colmenar Viejo, the president of Envera, its general director and several of its members were invited to the Consistory headquarters to participate in the institutional acts and receive the award from the hands of the mayor.