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Company internships facilitate access to the labor market for people with disabilities
Andrés Rodríguez came to Envera with one goal in mind: to train to get his first job. On the advice of his brother Eduardo, an alumnus of this organization dedicated to the social and occupational integration of people with intellectual disabilities, Andrés joined the Semilla Project, promoted by Envera in Tenerife, as a student.
During the 2015-2016 academic year, Andrés and fourteen other classmates, all of them people with disabilities, worked to obtain the two professional certificates to which this training project gives access: Auxiliary Activities in Agriculture and Auxiliary Activities in Gardens, Nurseries and Garden Centers.
Academics from Japanese universities visit Envera as a benchmark in intellectual disabilities
Envera has received the visit of professors from various universities in Japan, experts in social welfare and interested in learning about the policies and actions to support people with intellectual disabilities that are carried out in Spain.
The general director of Envera, Pedro Sobrino, has received them at the headquarters of the Association in Madrid, where they have been able to learn about the work done by Envera accompanying people with disabilities from birth and throughout their lives, offering comprehensive assistance and becoming a support when it comes to social and labor insertion.
AEHCOS and Envera sign an agreement to collaborate in the integration of people with disabilities
Envera - Asociación de Empleados de Iberia Padres de Personas con Discapacidad and the Asociación de Empresarios Hoteleros de la Costa del Sol (AEHCOS) have signed an agreement to collaborate in improving the quality of life of people with disabilities and to promote their social and labor insertion.
This was stated by the President of AEHCOS, Luis Callejón, and the General Manager of Envera, Pedro Sobrino, during a ceremony that took place at the headquarters of AEHCOS in the town of Torremolinos, Malaga, in which both expressed their commitment to promote social actions that favor the inclusion of people with functional diversity.
Songs of the summer at Envera Inclusion Point Carrefour City of Image
Madrid | 19 de julio de 2017 El viernes la unidad móvil de Radio Terrícola se desplazó a Envera Punto de Inclusión en Carrefour Ciudad de la Imagen (Pozuelo de Alarcón) para realizar un programa especial en el que los locutores de Envera y los visitantes del centro comercial repasaron las canciones del verano que […]
Madrid Abierta holds its first meeting with Envera, Ibercaja and Iberia
On July 6, the Madrid headquarters of Iberia hosted the I Encuentro Madrid Abierta, an initiative promoted by Ibercaja Obra Social that counted in its first edition with Envera to talk about "labor integration of the different as a tool for balanced growth of the city". In addition, Javier Gómez Matallanas, spokesman for FUNDELA, and Consuelo Durán, director of Durán Arte y Subastas, also participated.
And, as recognized by the promoter of Madrid Abierta, José Francisco García, who is also director of the City Lab of the European Institute of Design (IED), "we will develop a series of meetings to disseminate the values of Madrid as an open, tolerant, inclusive and welcoming city".
Envera joins the Company Games to promote healthy habits among employees
Envera, as an organization that is not only responsible for people with intellectual disabilities but for society as a whole, wanted to join The Company Games at the initiative of the Human Resources Department and the Sports Service.
During the weeks that the Games have lasted, a total of 25 employees and beneficiaries of various Envera services (Special Employment Center, Early Intervention, Occupational Center, Sports, Residence for the Elderly of 45 years and Commercial Department) have participated in up to eight sports modalities, winning a total of seven medals.
We celebrate 40 years of social conquests with a big party
Envera has celebrated four decades as an Association with a big party at the Integral Disability Center in Colmenar Viejo in which employees, beneficiaries of the different support and care services and their families as well as very special guests participated. A 40th anniversary, under the Honorary Presidency of Her Majesty Queen Doña Letizia and the motto Todos podemos ser los mejores en algo, which is a dream come true for those pioneer parents, employees of Iberia, and a spur to go further and higher at the side of boys and girls, men and women with disabilities, our influential people.
Training, key to the labor market insertion of people with disabilities
When Beatriz and Jennifer arrived in early 2016 at the Envera delegation in Las Palmas, interested in the opportunities offered by this entity specialized in the socio-labor insertion of people with disabilities, they did not imagine what they would be able to achieve months later.
From the very first moment, both young women, 25 and 23 years old respectively, received a personalized job orientation according to their personal aspirations. After professional counseling, they decided to take the first step to begin a new stage, based on training, which would allow them to achieve the goals they had set for themselves.
Envera participates in the "4º ESO + Company" program of the Community of Madrid.
Through this initiative, students in the fourth year of ESO can voluntarily spend between three and five school days in public or private organizations to learn first-hand about the activities carried out by the professionals who work in them.
Envera wanted to join the project 4º ESO+Enterprise in collaboration with the Raimundo Lulio School and the Nuestra Señora de las Nieves School, hosting two students, Raquel and Elena, from the first one, and one student, Alberto, from the second one, for three days.
