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The deputy mayor of Madrid, Begoña Villacís, and the president of Madrid Foro Empresarial, Hilario Alfaro, inaugurated this Wednesday the I Foro Empléate Madrid at the headquarters of Deusto Business School. An event in which a total of eight experts, including the CEO of Envera, reflected on the employment opportunities generated by the new scenarios in which companies have been forced to move, such as digitalization, education, sustainability and diversity.

Envera - Asociación de Empleados de Iberia Padres de Personas con Discapacidad, and the Fundación Hospital San José, have signed an agreement to jointly promote social and CSR actions and collaborate in the care of the most vulnerable people. This was agreed this Monday by the president of the Foundation, Manuel Galeote, and the president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero, in a ceremony held at the former San José Hospital in Getafe, which today houses various social services of the Madrid municipality.

Last Friday, Eduardo Pérez de Ayala, Director of the Central Area of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, and the President of Envera, José Antonio Quintero, inaugurated the 'Coca-Cola Space', which is already being enjoyed by nearly ninety people with intellectual disabilities, including residents and students of Envera. It is a sustainable space located in the Envera Building, headquarters of this non-profit organization, and in whose realization have participated themselves people with intellectual disabilities along with more than thirty volunteers from Coca-Cola EP that over eight days of corporate volunteering have helped to raise both a garden surrounding the residence as a recreation area that also has hydroponic urban garden for conducting environmental workshops.

Carrefour Property, the company that leads the real estate strategy of the Carrefour Group, Carmila, a company specialized in the revitalization of shopping centers adjacent to Carrefour hypermarkets, and Envera, a non-profit organization that for 43 years has dedicated its efforts to the care, training, job placement, residential care and guardianship of people with intellectual disabilities, have inaugurated this Wednesday a new Envera Inclusion Point in the Carrefour Prat shopping center, located in El Prat de Llobregat.

Envera's CEO, Enrique Grande, has participated in Industry Talks, the first online conference platform of the industry sector, to talk about the aeronautical industry and the employment of people with disabilities, explaining the model that Envera has been developing for decades to generate employment opportunities in this sector.

More than 140 people with intellectual disabilities from Envera participated, both beneficiaries of Support and Care Services and professionals from the Special Employment Centers of all the delegations. Throughout twelve sessions and in small groups, the people of Envera have been able to share, in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere, both their experiences and the emotions and concerns that the pandemic situation has been generating.

Thanks to Envera's labor inclusion programs and the companies that collaborate with this non-profit social entity, more than 200 people with disabilities, mostly intellectual, have obtained employment during the last year, which has been marked by COVID-19. Despite the difficulties derived from the impact of the health, social and economic crisis caused by the coronavirus, Envera's Labor Insertion Service works tirelessly to improve the employability of people with disabilities.

The Community of Madrid and Envera collaborate in training for the job placement of people with intellectual disabilities by facilitating the incorporation of students over 18 years of age with intellectual disabilities to work practices in the Department of Housing and Local Administration and the Social Housing Agency. The training began in 2020 and, after an interruption due to the pandemic, have ended in 2021. The Minister of Housing and Local Government, David Perez, today presented a diploma and a certificate to the three students of Envera who have made their work experience for a period of three months, rotating monthly by different departments, with the aim of facilitating their access to the world of work and know the workings of the administration in order to prepare for competitive examinations.

During the inaugural program last Friday, Envera's reporters had the opportunity to greet the president of Iberia, Javier Sanchez-Prieto, before the inauguration of the Iberia Kindergarten at the Envera Early Care Center. The head of the airline thus became the first interviewee in this new Radio Terrícola station which, together with Iberia, will continue to take inclusion higher and further through its borderless airwaves. This is the second site of Envera's digital radio, which is seven years old, after the studios in Colmenar Viejo and the Canary Islands.