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This Wednesday the Government Delegate in Madrid, Concepción Dancausa, was received by the President of Envera, José Antonio Quintero, and its General Director, Pedro Sobrino, at the Comprehensive Center for Disability Care that Envera has in the Madrid town of Colmenar Viejo.

A group of students with disabilities, all belonging to the Envera Association, visited the City Hall of San Sebastian de los Reyes. During the morning of this Thursday they have been able to know the facilities and operation of the town hall and the building of El Caserón, which houses the ethnographic museum and whose objects are part of the history of the municipality and its surroundings.

Envera's General Manager, Pedro Sobrino, together with Ambilamp's Operations Manager, Alberto Rodríguez, and the Customer Service Manager, Ana Carrión, inaugurated the mirror room, which is now part of the Early Attention Service in which Envera serves 140 children from zero to six years of age with developmental disorders, or who are at risk of suffering from them, with the aim of detecting and responding to their needs as early as possible.

In December 2015, a new edition of the Seed Project was launched, a training activity for employment promoted by Envera in Tenerife. Today, and after acquiring the Certificate of Professionalism in Auxiliary Agricultural Activities, four students have managed to access a stable job. And this is not the end. The training will continue until the end of the year, when the students will obtain a second Certificate of Professionalism in Auxiliary Activities in Nurseries, Gardens and Garden Centers.

Iberia and Envera receive in Colmenar Viejo the Spanish Paralympic team and committee upon their arrival from the Rio de Janeiro Games. They are already at home. The delegation of athletes who have represented Spain at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games landed this Wednesday at the Adolfo Suárez Madrid - Barajas airport and they did so with 31 medals under their arms. Upon arrival, 60 athletes, coaches and representatives of the Spanish Paralympic Team were welcomed by Envera - Iberia Employees Association Parents of People with Disabilities at its headquarters in Colmenar Viejo.

Carmila inaugurates a space in the Carrefour Ciudad de la Imagen Shopping Center (Pozuelo, Madrid) to accommodate the social and labor project supported by ENVERA (Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities for the social and labor integration of people with functional diversity). This new establishment offers visitors the opportunity to collaborate with the Association through the recycling of suitcases and the purchase of objects lost in airplanes.

Next Wednesday, September 21, Envera welcomes a delegation of Paralympic athletes recently arrived from the Rio Games and the Spanish Paralympic Committee, in an event that will take place at the Association's headquarters in Colmenar Viejo (Madrid). The event will start at 10.30 a.m. with the Envera 25 Years with Sport Tournament (mini-basketball and adapted field hockey), in which Envera and Iberia Club athletes will participate.

After the success of the first charity auction held last July, Durán Arte y Subastas will host a second edition auctioning 35 works that Iberia has donated to Envera, an association founded by employees of the airline 40 years ago and which currently serves 2,500 people with disabilities. On this occasion, the "Suite Iberia" collection by José Manuel Ciria stands out, which will be auctioned together with works such as "Los viajeros" by Luis Canogar, "Esfera" by Juan Genovés, "Aproximación" by Lucio Muñoz or "El viajero" by Eduardo Úrculo, which are part of the art collection that Iberia has compiled throughout its almost 90 years of history.

We can all be the best at something. With the necessary resources, there are no insurmountable obstacles to achieving full labor integration for people with disabilities. That was the opportunity Yeray Valencia found, and it was enough for him to demonstrate his abilities and have a job that has transformed his life. When in October 2009 Yeray finished the first training course of the Seed Project that Envera develops in Tenerife, a world of professional possibilities began for him, which a month later materialized in a stable job as a gardening operator at Envera. Until then he had never had a job.