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Last Tuesday took place the delivery of agreements of the Ibercaja Foundation to the entities selected in the 2019 Call for Social Projects. Envera's project "Journey to the five senses" was one of those selected and aims to provide equipment and means to the multisensory room that Envera's beneficiaries will be able to enjoy in their Residence for the Elderly of 45 years old with intellectual disabilities and premature aging.

Seven young people who are preparing to enter the labor market in the occupational center of Envera - Association of Employees of Iberia Parents of People with Disabilities, have been incorporated this Wednesday to the municipal staff of the City of Colmenar Viejo for work experience for the next three months. The incorporation of these young people is the result of the agreement signed in 2018 between the City Council and the non-profit organization that comes to expand and strengthen the collaboration between the two entities to achieve greater and better integration of people with intellectual disabilities.

On April 9, 2019 took place in Madrid the signing of the collaboration agreement between the World Compliance Association (WCA) and Envera- Asociación de Empleados de Iberia Padres de Personas con Discapacidad. Through this agreement, both organizations show their involvement in the implementation of projects related to compliance and the social and labor integration of people with disabilities.

The theater company Cuento contigo, formed by beneficiaries and professionals of the Envera Occupational Center, has premiered its new musical storyteller Cuando las niñas vuelan alto, an adaptation of the text by Raquel Díaz Reguera, with the support of Iberia and the NGO Aviación Sin Fronteras. The Cuento contigo project aims to bring inclusion to the youngest children and make visible, through theater, the capabilities of people with intellectual disabilities, breaking down prejudices and demonstrating that we can all be the best at something. This adaptation also extols other important values such as equality, respect for diversity and the desire to excel, demonstrating that with the necessary support, there are no unattainable heights for anyone.

The Blas de Otero Cultural Center hosts the exhibition Al borde del aeropuerto, part of the 20th Anniversary of PHotoESPAÑA. The photographer Antonio Martín, with intellectual disabilities and member of Envera (Association of Iberia Employees Parents of People with Disabilities), has portrayed the residents of the Alameda de Osuna neighborhood for more than twenty years. The exhibition, curated by the Mingote award winner Miguel Berrocal with the support of Iberia, can be visited from April 13.

Envera received the 2018 Sustainability Award at the second Influentials Awards gala, organized by El Confidencial and Herbert Smith Freehills, with the aim of "recognizing the most outstanding companies, managers and personalities in Spain over the past year." In addition to Envera, chef José Andrés (Personality of the Year Award), painter Antonio López (Career Achievement Award), scientist and researcher María Vallet (Career Achievement Award), Repsol (Best Company of the Year Award), Mapfre (Brand Spain Award) and Bizum (Most Innovative Company Award) were also recognized.

Envera has won the Territorios Solidarios award granted by BBVA to finance with 6,000 euros the project "Movement without limits", which aims to acquire an adapted vehicle that allows the comfortable and safe mobility of people with intellectual disabilities and reduced mobility that Envera attends in its Support and Care Services and who regularly perform activities outside the facilities of the social entity.

The company "Cuento contigo", made up of beneficiaries and professionals from the Envera Occupational Center, ends its season after 25 performances that have been enjoyed by nearly 3,000 people, mostly students from schools in Madrid. Through the musical storytelling "La cebra Camila", the twenty performers and three musicians of Envera have brought to the audience values such as inclusion, self-improvement and teamwork.

Envera closes a new edition of the Agro Envera project, in which fifteen people with disabilities have been trained and worked, with a ceremony attended by Álvaro Agustín Dávila, mayor of Tacoronte, and María Teresa Pociello, provincial president of the Red Cross. Agro Envera is a training project in alternation with employment that Envera has given in Tenerife throughout 2018, with the support of the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security and the Canary Employment Service, and from which unemployed people have benefited, who have been able to qualify professionally and, in turn, have an employment contract.