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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
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
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
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.
Protective equipment for the island of La Palma
The first aid package that Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme has sent to the island of La Palma contains masks, goggles and eye drops to protect citizens from exposure to volcanic emissions. This donation is worth 65,000 euros.
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
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
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.
Today, some two million children have access to a daily meal
The international charity organization Mary’s Meals, which was recognized by our Social Awards in 2018, manages to ensure that some two million children in 19 different countries are provided with a meal every day at their primary schools.
More antigen tests in September
Despite being a vacation month, the testing facility at the Wizink Center carried out more than 19,000 antigen tests on the people of Madrid in August. The success of this initiative has encouraged us to extend the service through to September 30.
Backpacks of Smiles
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the situation of many families living in conditions of extreme vulnerability. To help alleviate the consequences of this health and social crisis, we are involved in the ‘Mochilas de Sonrisas’ (Backpacks of Smiles) program of the Nutritional Education and Recovery Center (CREN) in the state of Alagoas.
Antigen tests to stop the spread of the pandemic
If you’d like to take a free test to help identify the virus at an early stage, come along to our free testing center. We’ll be at the Wizink Center in Madrid until August 31.
Start up your own Community Foundation
If you’ve got an idea for improving the lives of people in your community, or if you think you can find a solution to local problems, you now have a great opportunity to start up a Community Foundation that promotes initiatives of common interest.
Wings for Butterfly Skin Disease
We support the work of this NGO in its determination to improve the lives of people with ‘butterfly skin’, a rare and very painful genetic disease for which a cure has yet to be found. Today we are proud to receive their thanks for this support.
ARCO 2021 strengthens the beat of the city’s pulse
Madrid throws open the door to art and art collecting with ARCO 2021, an edition that this year is being held exceptionally between July 7 and 11. Some 130 galleries from 26 countries are coming to swell the city’s cultural offer. To mark the occasion and show our support for the week in which Contemporary Art is the main protagonist, Fundación MAPFRE is extending its exhibition opening hours until 10pm on Friday, July 9.
Claudia Andujar’s catalog at Les Rencontres d’Arles
For more than five decades, Claudia Andujar has dedicated her life and her work to documenting and protecting the Yanomami people, one of the largest and most endangered indigenous communities in Brazil. The catalog we published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition in Barcelona between February 26 and May 23, 2021, was shortlisted for the Best Historical Book award at the Rencontres d’Arlés photography festival in France.
Elena Sanz, the new member of Fundación MAPFRE’s Board of Trustees
Elena Sanz, Group Chief Human Resources Officer at MAPFRE and president of MAPFRE’s Sustainability Committee, joins the Board of Trustees of Fundación MAPFRE.