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The beneficiaries of the Envera Occupational Center in Gran Canaria carried out last week a waste collection and recycling activity in the surroundings of the Center in the town of Carrizal.

Our Radio Terrícola studios in the Envera Occupational Center in Gran Canaria received last Friday the multifaceted and international artist El Capo Europa (Johnny de León) who after 20 years in the music industry is currently embarking on a new film project in the Canary Islands.

Envera cooperates with the leading Ukrainian intellectual disability NGO. Marina Grigorieva, coordinator of Vinnitsya Down Syndrome, tells Envera about the desperate situation that many families with people with intellectual disabilities have been enduring since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began more than a month ago.

Envera has made available to the Community of Madrid several places for the care of Ukrainian refugees with disabilities in its Early Care and Neurodevelopmental Center for Children and Adolescents as well as in its Occupational Center where it regularly serves more than 200 children and 50 adults with intellectual disabilities.

Envera's Labor Insertion Service has managed to employ 63 people with disabilities thanks to the support of ENAIRE, which finances, through its Call 2021 of subsidies for social entities, one of the most important employment projects carried out by Envera. Besides, 23 of these insertions have been carried out in companies of the aeronautical sector.

The president of Envera, José Antonio Quintero, attended yesterday the celebration of the tenth anniversary of Iberia Express and congratulated the company's president, Carlos Gómez, "for these ten years of history as part of the great aeronautical family of which we share DNA". Quintero assured that the event "has been as exciting as this decade of stories together, also marked by the commitment and social responsibility of which Iberia Express is an example for all".

Envera has trained 90 people with disabilities, 12 of whom have found employment thanks to the training and job placement projects that the social entity provides free of charge in Gran Canaria in collaboration with the Canary Islands Employment Service. Moreover, the students have rated these courses very positively with an average score of 4.3 out of 5 in the questionnaires carried out at the end of their training.

The Spanish Society of Pediatric Palliative Care is organizing this week its V Congress PEDPAL Madrid 2022 and Envera is participating in the pre-congress with the contributions of the professionals of its Early Intervention and Neurodevelopment Service, a reference center in the Community of Madrid.

Visit our studies of Radio Terrícola Amaro Rodríguez, owner of one of the bakeries with more history of Gran Canaria, the bakery Artesanal Amaro. A bakery that based on water, salt, yeast and flour has been kneading 250 years of history and in 2018 was recognized as one of the ten best bakeries in Spain.