Spanish Post Office renews cleaning contract with Pardo-Valcarce Foundation

Spanish postal operator Correos and the Pardo-Valcarce Foundation have renewed a contract which will continue to see employees with special needs, repairing, maintaining and washing equipment used by Correos employees including crash helmets, mail bags and plastic containers.

Correos has been working with the Foundation for 16 years as part of it’s Corporative Social Responsibility plan. Correos continues to support the use of people with physical and mental disabilities.

In 2007, a total of 59 young people with disabilities were employed with the Occupational Factory in conjunction with support from the Special Center of the Pardo-Valcarce Foundation.

In recent years many containers that were made from fabric or rafia have been replaced with plastics, all of which which require regular cleaning. The cleaning unit has seen 844,938 washed trays, 15 pct more than in 2006. The cleaning is to remove bacteria, fungi and to reduce the risk of diseases.