FCC participates in the events of the International Day of Disabled Persons. This day was declared by the United Nations since 1992 with the aim of promoting the rights and well-being of disabled persons. In addition, it aims to raise the awareness about their situation in all aspects of political, social, economic and cultural life.
 
FCC observes this day to remind everyone about its day-to-day commitment with this group and about how it has strengthened its commitment to become a more and more diverse and socially responsible company, promoting actions and projects to foster inclusion and equal opportunities through employment. More than 1,000 of the company's employees have some form of recognised disability; one of every seven people in the world also has some form of disability (more than 1 billion, about 15% of the world's population).
 
FCC's commitment to diversity and workplace inclusion covers different actions and management strategies, such as:

• Direct hiring and hiring through specialised entities, such as the Inserta foundation, with the workplace inclusion programme of the Once Foundation. FCC has worked with the Once Foundation for the past 10 years, with the aim of ensuring disabled persons can live and work in a more inclusive society that guarantees equal opportunities. The capacity, talent and commitment of companies like FCC has allowed over 20,000 disabled persons to be hired by the companies that have joined the Programme and the Inserta Forum of the Once Foundation.
• Promoting purchases and hiring services through Special Employment Centres, FCC Equal, its own Special Employment Centre, being a benchmark in this area, as a member centre of the Castilla y León offices of FCC Medio Ambiente.
• Providing support in education and entrepreneurship programmes, collaborating with the Prevent Foundation in its Entrepreneur Classroom and participating in Scholarship programmes for disabled students and entrepreneurs, athletes and researchers working on Occupational Hazard Prevention.
• Giving visibility to diversity and talent, disseminating campaigns that help fight against the elimination of prejudice and of the barriers that hinder the development of disabled persons. In this line, FCC joins the Integra Foundation's "Very able" campaign.
• FCC also wishes to raise awareness on the message of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, for 2019, "On this International Day, I reaffirm the commitment of the United Nations to work with people with disabilities to build a sustainable, inclusive and transformative future in which everyone, including women, men, girls and boys with disabilities, can realize their potential".

We present below the "IDEM, same objects that make us equal" campaign, which is being disseminated by Inserta Empleo, one of ONCE Foundation's entity responsible for training and employment of people with disabilities, on the International Day of Disabled Persons to raise awareness about the ability and talent of people with disabilities at the workplace:
 

Can a person with a disability do the same job as a person without a disability? Click on the Play button!

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