{"id":76751,"date":"2020-12-04T12:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T11:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/the-naturgy-foundation-and-caritas-are-to-run-a-new-social-innovation-project-in-avila-that-will-benefit-more-than-1200-of-the-citys-residents\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T15:07:29","slug":"the-naturgy-foundation-and-caritas-are-to-run-a-new-social-innovation-project-in-avila-that-will-benefit-more-than-1200-of-the-citys-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/the-naturgy-foundation-and-caritas-are-to-run-a-new-social-innovation-project-in-avila-that-will-benefit-more-than-1200-of-the-citys-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"The Naturgy Foundation and C\u00e1ritas are to run a new social-innovation project in \u00c1vila that will benefit more than 1,200 of the city\u2019s residents"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Naturgy Foundation and C\u00e1ritas are to run a social innovation project in a building belonging to the Diocese in \u00c1vila. It will bring together renewable-power generation from solar panels, energy-poverty alleviation and the promotion of jobs for vulnerable people. The project will benefit the more than 1,200 people who use the services of this building in the capital of the province of \u00c1vila.<\/p>\n

It is part of the national-level agreement between the two entities renewed this month by the Chair of the Naturgy Foundation, Rafael Villaseca, the Chair of C\u00e1ritas Spain, Manuel Bret\u00f3n, and the Managing Director of the Naturgy Foundation, Mar\u00eda Eugenia Coronado.<\/p>\n

This unique initiative, which will be carried out next year, is part of the \u00c1vila Diocese\u2019s \u201cEnergy for the People\u201d project that arose from the need to improve the energy efficiency of the building C\u00e1ritas has on Avenida Madrid in the city of \u00c1vila.<\/p>\n

In addition to reducing and improving respectively the building\u2019s environmental impact and energy efficiency , the project will also cut its consumption costs, enabling the savings to be allocated to meeting the basic needs of the individuals and families taking part in C\u00e1ritas programmes.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the management and sale of any surplus power produced will also be used to co-fund projects aimed at providing people with access to decent employment.<\/p>\n

This project will benefit the more than 1,200 people receiving assistance from C\u00e1ritas in the building, which boasts three floors and a social store, and where it runs its employment programme.<\/p>\n

The project will also complement other energy-related initiatives that have already been carried out in this building, thanks to the support of the Naturgy Foundation over the past two years, and which have enabled the windows to be changed for improved insulation, the lighting system to be replaced with more efficient LED-based systems and solar panels to be installed.<\/p>\n

\u00c1vila is one of the best provinces in Spain for harnessing the sun\u2019s heat and light, besides which it is at a high altitude and has few clouds and low temperatures throughout the year. Thanks to these features, the energy facilities in this area can achieve up to 10% higher profits than those located elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Renewed agreement<\/p>\n

The renewal of this collaboration agreement between the Naturgy Foundation and C\u00e1ritas for the third consecutive year has so far benefited 15,000 people in vulnerable situations throughout Spain.<\/p>\n

After signing the agreement, Villaseca highlighted \u201cthe importance of working in coordination not only with the Authorities, but also with social organisations, which have a real understanding of the daily lives of families going through hard times, during a particularly complicated period owing to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bret\u00f3n, for his part, welcomed \u201cthe strengthening of this collaboration with Naturgy, with the signing of the agreement for the third year running, which is going to enable many of the families supported by C\u00e1ritas to have their right of access to energy guaranteed and the living conditions in their homes improved\u201d. \u201cThis commitment is has added value at a time such as the present, where so many people find themselves in a seriously precarious situation as a result of the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The initiative, which will be carried out in a building belonging to the Diocese, involves using the profits from renewable power generation to help combat energy poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":76733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[1065,729],"tags":[707,1013,1066],"content-type":[],"acf":[],"post_class":["post-76751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-volunteering-en","category-social-action","tag-energy","tag-energy-vulnerability","tag-volunteering","wordpress-sticky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751"}],"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=76751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76751"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=76751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}