{"id":65647,"date":"2019-07-18T10:52:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/the-naturgy-foundation-and-caritas-attend-to-around-20000-people-in-spain-and-renew-their-partnership-to-carry-out-energy-rehabilitation-and-education-for-vulnerable-groups\/"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:52:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T08:52:49","slug":"the-naturgy-foundation-and-caritas-attend-to-around-20000-people-in-spain-and-renew-their-partnership-to-carry-out-energy-rehabilitation-and-education-for-vulnerable-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/the-naturgy-foundation-and-caritas-attend-to-around-20000-people-in-spain-and-renew-their-partnership-to-carry-out-energy-rehabilitation-and-education-for-vulnerable-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naturgy Foundation and C\u00e1ritas attend to around 20,000 people in Spain and renew their partnership to carry out energy rehabilitation and education for vulnerable groups"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The partnership between the Naturgy Foundation and Caritas has meant around 20,000 people have been assisted in the last two years through different initiatives relating to energy rehabilitation of homes and educating vulnerable families about energy.<\/p>\n

With the aim of expanding on the actions undertaken to date, the deputy chairman of the Naturgy Foundation<\/strong>, Jordi Garcia Tabernero<\/strong>, the chairman of C\u00e1ritas Espa\u00f1ola, Manuel Bret\u00f3n<\/strong>, and the managing director of the Naturgy Foundation, Mar\u00eda Eugenia Coronado<\/strong>, signed the partnership agreement renewal in Madrid.<\/p>\n

Garcia Tabernero explained that since Naturgy launched its Vulnerability Plan in 2017, it has \u201ccollaborated with Third Sector organisations such as C\u00e1ritas because we are convinced that, in order to alleviate the energy poverty that affects thousands of families, it is essential to work together with public authorities, social organisations and companies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manuel Bret\u00f3n said: \u201cImproving energy efficiency in homes is one of the keys to resolving energy access, which affects excluded families in particular. This access should be regarded as a basic right, meaning it should be guaranteed because it is a condition for access to others such as education and health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Focus on energy rehabilitation and education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the next two months, both organisations will focus their joint efforts on energy rehabilitation projects in homes, educating vulnerable families through the Naturgy Foundation's Energy School and energy volunteering programmes with company employees.<\/p>\n

The rehabilitation will take place in homes selected by C\u00e1ritas which need improvements to the electricity installation, repairs or purchasing of heating and\/or cooling systems, better insulation and closures, and anything that may improve the energy efficiency of homes of vulnerable families cared for by the social organisation. Until now, 230 homes and shelters have been rehabilitated within the framework of this activity, and the aim is to add another 130 homes with this new agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cEnergy rehabilitation is a priority action of the Naturgy Foundation and is in line with the National Strategy to tackle Energy Poverty 2019-2024,\u201d explained Maria Eugenia Coronado. Recently approved by the Government of Spain, this roadmap defines express energy-related property rehabilitations as one of the short-, medium- and long-term lines of action to address this problem structurally. As an example of best practice in this regard, the document cites the study entitled \u201cExpress Rehabilitations for Vulnerable Homes\u201d<\/a>, supported by the Naturgy Foundation.<\/p>\n

The Energy School will continue with its schedule of sessions at C\u00e1ritas offices to educate vulnerable families. These workshops explain how to use energy more efficiently to reduce utility bills without compromising on comfort at home. The aim is to empower people so they can minimise the impact of the energy cost by applying the measures and advice given to them by the educators at the practical and demonstrative sessions. Since the partnership began in mid-2017, over 850 vulnerable families have attended 42 Energy School workshops carried out in parishes around Madrid, Andalusia, Galicia and Catalonia.<\/p>\n

The work of the Naturgy Foundation energy volunteers is another way the partnership will be maintained to be able to help vulnerable families cared for by C\u00e1ritas improve their daily energy use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The energy company's foundation has promoted the energy rehabilitation of 230 C\u00e1ritas homes and shelters since they started working together two years ago.<\/p>\n

The Energy School has offered training in efficiency for vulnerable families cared for by the diocesan organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":65620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[730,1065,729],"tags":[1013],"content-type":[],"acf":[],"post_class":["post-65647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-school","category-energy-volunteering-en","category-social-action","tag-energy-vulnerability","wordpress-sticky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65647"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=65647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}