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Women: real and empowered

Women: real and empowered

At Fundación MAPFRE we believe that gender equality is more than a goal in itself, it is an attitude. That is why, on International Women’s Day, we are giving a voice to three real and empowered women from our team who every day strive to make the world a better place.

71,597 steps in women’s leadership

71,597 steps in women’s leadership

The main task of an organisation with such a strong social commitment as Fundación MAPFRE is to reduce all kinds of shortcomings and promote second chances aimed at protecting the most vulnerable.

For the future

For the future

Today is a day to remember the progress that has been made in reducing inequalities between men and women. Today is International Women’s Day and I would like to add my voice to those of other women. We all have a lot to say.

A room of one’s own

A room of one’s own

The cultural sector is eminently female, or at least mine is, which is the one I can best tell you about, our team in Fundación MAPFRE’s Culture area.

A seat for Paula

A seat for Paula

All children are not the same, and our vehicles do not all have the same characteristics. The important thing is that the choice of the car seat they are going to travel in is appropriate for their safety.

Survival space

Survival space

In the event of a traffic accident, the actions we have taken when installing the child seat and putting the child in it, will determine the survival space and, therefore, the consequences it may have for our child.

Streets for life

Streets for life

Restoring harmony between all road users is a dream that is gradually becoming a reality. The #Streetsforlife campaign was launched to help achieve this.

A Safe Virtual World

A Safe Virtual World

We want to help children and young people by making their environment a safer place so we’ve developed a new interactive virtual tool: the Safe Virtual World. We invite you to discover it.

Anastasia Samoylova, winner of the KBr Photo Award

Anastasia Samoylova, winner of the KBr Photo Award

The Image Cities project by photographer Anastasia Samoylova is a visual study of the ever-closer integration of the photographic image and the urban environment. This work, for its quality and originality, is the winner of the first KBr Photo Award.

Road safety calls for joint action worldwide

Road safety calls for joint action worldwide

We take stock of how the first UN Road Safety Plan 2011-2020 has helped reduce road accidents worldwide, and we analyze the challenges for the coming years based on the new strategy posed by the United Nations for the decade 2021-2030.

It’s time to take action

It’s time to take action

The pandemic caused us to suspend these awards in 2020 in order to devote all our efforts to mitigate the consequences of the crisis caused by the coronavirus. In an event held at the Real Casino de Madrid, our Social Outreach Awards have returned with greater commitment and with the certainty that working together is the way to move forward and help others improve.

Mexico: a historic donation to eradicate hunger

Mexico: a historic donation to eradicate hunger

Food shortages and malnutrition remain major obstacles to achieving sustainable development.Aware of the fact that the pandemic has deeply impacted hunger levels in Mexico, we have made our largest donation yet in this country – 25 million pesos – to the Mexican Food Bank Network.

Biscuits filled with hope

Biscuits filled with hope

Nine social entities of the Sé Solidario project received 28,800 nutritional biscuits, enriched with vitamins and minerals at our headquarters in Recoletos Street in Madrid on Monday 27 September.

Today, we are all inhabitants of La Palma

Today, we are all inhabitants of La Palma

Since the Cumbre Vieja volcano started erupting on September 20 on the island of La Palma, the lava flow has destroyed hundreds of houses, erased numerous farms and smallholdings, and left thousands of people homeless. Fundación MAPFRE sends them our heartfelt solidarity.

Health travels by boat

Health travels by boat

For many of the people living in the heart of the Amazon rainforest – the world’s largest – it is impossible to get an antigen test, an essential tool in the fight against COVID-19. This first Scientific Mission managed to conduct more than one thousand tests between August 3 and 25.