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Today, 19 March, celebrate on the Day World Championship of the social work

On 19 March is celebrated on the Day World Championship of the social work. This date commemorates the commitment, the contribution and the work of social workers as experts on first hand of the social reality, leaders of the change and of the social participation and promoters of the fight and the guarantee of the citizenship's social rights.

For this year, the picked topic is " To promote the importance of the human relationships ". ...

More than 4,000 collected toys in the centres of Mutua Universal with the solidarity “campaign Unite efforts, give away smiles”

Mutua Universal has organised, for the fifth consecutive year, the toy collection campaign "Unamos esfuerzos, regalemos sonrisas" (Let's join forces and give smiles this Christmas), to ensure that children from needy families can receive presents on the Three Kings' Day. 

The more than 4,000 toys donated to the Mutua Universal centres have been delivered to various associations and NOGs working to deliver toys to disadvantaged children and families. ...

Day in memory of the victims of traffic: “Streets and roads tell histories”

On 17 August 1896, Bridget Driscoll, a woman of 44 years that it was strolling, became the first caused death for a car in Europe.

It was overwhelmed by a car that “it went to great speed” according to state a witness. Possibly was to 12.8 km/h, when he should not go to more than 6.4 km/h, a speed that it can seem us now ridiculous, but that it could not avoid the first documented traffic fatal accident¹.

6th edition of the programme of coaching “I can” to fight serious injuries or incapacitantes

Yesterday took place the 6th edition of the workshop “I can” in Sevilla. Through this theoretical course of 4 hours, Mutua Universal helps to the workers that they have suffered serious injuries and/or incapacitante with the aim that these re-establish the self-confidence and they address the difficulty that it supposes to return to find the balance between its life habits and its new situation. ...

Mutua Universal donates two tons of assistance to banks of foodstuffs

Mutua Universal has collected two tons of foodstuffs in the Solidarity Campaign of Collected of Foodstuffs “The hunger does not leave of holidays”.

The campaign, that has been made during June, is a collaboration with the Spanish Federation of Banks of Foodstuffs and other non-profit organisations as a Cáritas: Assistance to El Salvador and Red Cross.

To this solidarity action have been summed 60 centres of the Company. ...

IT TIES gives the Prize to the Best Initiative Institutional for Self-employed workers to Mutua Universal

The National Associations Federation of Self-employed Workers (TIES) has announced today the winners of Freelance prizes of the Year. The Prize to the Best Initiative Institutional for Self-employed workers has fallen on Mutua Universal, for conscious being of the need of helping to the self-employed workers in plights after a work-related accident and to implement via the Special Benefits Committee, a series of grants aimed at to avoid the close of the business: ...

Mutua Universal offers to its associated companies to be part of the stock exchange of training practices for the work reintegration

Mutua Universal offers to its associated companies the possibility of being part of the stock exchange of training practices for the work reintegration. This programme is registered in the catalogue of social benefits of the Company, specifically along the lines of assistance set aside for the work and social integration, that it has as an objective to contribute to the integration and to improve the quality of life and personal autonomy. ...

Mutua Universal participates in the I Social Work days in collaborative Mutual Societies with the Social Security Institute

On Friday 1 June, Hospital Intermutual de Levante staged the 1st Seminar on Social Work in Mutual Societies collaborating with the Social Security, organised by the HILe (Hospital Intermutual de Levante) and with the collaboration of the Association of Social Workers in Valencia and the Association of Health and Social Action.

The aim of the seminar was to pool the work of the various mutual societies collaborating with the Social Services in this area. ...