Canary Islands | January 25, 2019
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 provided in Tenerife throughout 2018, with the support of the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security and the Canary Islands Employment Service, and which has benefited unemployed people who have been able to qualify professionally and, in turn, have an employment contract.
Thanks to this project, fifteen students have obtained the Certificate of Professionalism in Auxiliary Activities in Agriculture, which offers them new job opportunities. This is the case of Carlos Gustavo, Dáci María, Sergio and Katerine, who are already working in companies in the sector.
The Envera delegation in Tenerife wanted to highlight the involvement of the entire training team, students and teachers, and the enthusiasm with which they have learned and prepared to work, demonstrating that with the necessary resources, we can all be the best at something.
One of these students is Francisco Domingo de la Paz, 61 years old, who, according to Envera, "is an exemplary student-worker with an overflowing vitality that is contagious". Francisco moved the attendees at the closing ceremony with the reading of a poem he wrote himself in gratitude to Envera.
Elisabeth Martín, director of the delegation, also wanted to "highlight the complementary training that students receive at Envera, focused on preparing them for access to the world of work and which also includes training internships in companies committed to inclusion and visits to reference sites, such as the Los Realejos National Center, which enrich the students' training".
The Agro Envera project has also involved a commitment to Tenerife society through collaboration with the Red Cross, to whom more than 3,300 kilograms of vegetables grown by Envera students during their training have been donated to families with fewer resources on the island.
Thus, Pociello thanked the students and workers of Envera for their involvement and work to help those who need it most.
For his part, Mayor Dávila presented the diplomas to the students, who he congratulated for their work and academic success, in an event in which the municipality of Tacoronte was once again an example of inclusion and diversity.
Envera, which has been working in the Canary Islands since 1982 for the social and labor inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, has already launched the call for training courses for 2019 at its headquarters in Tenerife (gardening and horticulture) and Gran Canaria (management and administration, customer service, gardening and agriculture) for unemployed people, with scholarships for assistance and transportation to facilitate obtaining formal training.
Grupo Envera is a non-profit organization and transparency accredited by the Fundación Lealtad, which has been working for more than 40 years for the social and labor inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, who are assisted throughout their lives with welfare services and employment. It has offices in Madrid, Colmenar Viejo, Malaga, Barcelona, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, where it assists 2,500 people with disabilities per year and provides stable and supported employment to more than 600.
