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Envera has presented, on the occasion of Aviation Day, its Solidarity Calendar 2021 in an event in which the Madrid businessmen wanted to show their support to the aeronautical sector in one of its most delicate moments. The COVID-19 crisis has drastically limited an activity that directly employs 57,000 people and, indirectly, around 250,000 workers. Hilario Alfaro, president of Madrid Foro Empresarial, has shown his unanimous support on behalf of Madrid's businessmen: "Aeronautical companies are, in addition to innovation with capital letters, the progress and vital economic engine of the capital of Spain and the rest of the country. Thank you for your work and your effort".

The Envera Punto de Inclusión project, a pioneering initiative in Europe for the labor inclusion of people with disabilities promoted by Envera in collaboration with the Islazul Shopping Center and Carmila Carrefour, has been a finalist in the Zero Project Awards after being presented by the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030 to represent Spain at the Zero Project Conference to be held from February 10 to 12 at the UN headquarters in Vienna.

Play the Christmas lottery with Envera and contribute to its social work for the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities. You can buy your participations in Envera's branches as well as in the Envera - Inclusion Point spaces in the Islazul Shopping Center (Madrid) and in Carrefour Ciudad de la Imagen (Pozuelo de Alarcón).

On December 2, on the occasion of the International Day for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Madrid Foro Empresarial and Envera are organizing the debate "CSR in the era of COVID-19: opportunity or victim", which will take place at 4:30 pm via streaming with the participation of major companies such as Ferrovial, Ibercaja, Iberia, Beiersdorf - Nivea and Mapfre.

Christmas comes early one more year at Envera's Early Attention Service thanks to the donation that, for the fifth consecutive year, Imaginarium has made so that children with disabilities or developmental disorders have the best toys and tools that allow them to continue developing their physical, cognitive and educational skills in therapy sessions with Envera's professionals.

This Thursday the president of the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Gustavo Matos, and the second secretary of the Bureau, Luz Reverón, visited the headquarters of the Envera delegation in Tenerife to learn about the project of social and labor inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities that this NGO develops and with which it serves 2,500 people a year and provides stable employment to more than 650 people nationwide.

The Lukas Foundation has temporarily loaned Envera four electric tandem bicycles and an individual tricycle, all of them adapted so that athletes from Club Ícaro - Envera with reduced mobility and great support needs can enjoy the benefits offered by sports activities to improve their physical and cognitive abilities and as support for the therapeutic and physiotherapy treatments they receive every day at Envera's Integral Disability Center in Colmenar Viejo (Madrid).

On October 7 at 5:30 p.m., an Iberia plane left Madrid for Senegal with a very special cargo: several suitcases full of sports equipment for the "Del Bosque" Soccer School, created by former Atlético de Madrid player Limamou "Lima" M'Bengue, a native of Dakar, and in which more than ninety children participate, for whom soccer has become a means of inclusion and healthy leisure. Since its inception, the initiative has had the support of former national team coach Vicente del Bosque, ambassador of thirty years of inclusive sport at Envera.

Antonio Vázquez, Chairman of IAG (group that includes Iberia, British Airways, Vueling, Aer Lingus and Level), visited this Tuesday the Envera Building, headquarters in Madrid of Envera - Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities, a non-profit organization that was born 43 years ago in the heart of this airline and today is a consolidated reference and open to the whole society for the care and inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in the labor market.