Last September the IV Engineering Industry Awards were held VA and Aquona, as winners in the Socially Responsible Industry category, have decided to donate their prize of 1,500 euros to the Red Cross in Castilla y León.

Last September the IV Engineering Industry Awards were held VA and Aquona, as winners in the Socially Responsible Industry category, have decided to donate their prize of 1,500 euros to the Red Cross in Castilla y León.

The donation ceremony was held at the VA engineers headquarters, where Óscar García Arias, VA engineer vice president, Laura de Vega, Aquona's director of Sustainable Development, and Rosa Urbón Izquierdo, regional vice president of the Red Cross in Castilla were present. and Leon. This initiative is part of the ‘Open College‘ where IngenieríaVA wants to help companies and entities carry out their activities in an ethical manner.

From the Castilla y León Red Cross they are very grateful to both VA engineers and Aquona and Rosa Urbón explains that “this donation that we are going to allocate to the red cross plan responds and that it is supporting almost 150,000 people in CASTILLA Y LEON and is directed to support the most vulnerable people most affected by the economic and social crisis caused by Covid-19 ”.

For her part, Laura de Vega, Aquona's Director of Sustainable Development, thanked Va engineers for awarding an award, which is “a motivation to reinforce our social commitment thanks to alliances such as those we maintain with the Red Cross in Castilla y León ”. The award for the socially responsible industry was awarded to the company for its work carried out during the pandemic and for this reason, De Vega recalled, “it also represents an express recognition of the work of our human team that works 365 days a year to guarantee a intelligent and sustainable water management, always having the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda as a roadmap ”.

While for his part, the vice dean of VA engineers, Óscar García Arias, pointed out that “this type of initiative always contributes to the correct development of society and both Industry and Engineering must contribute to continue being an example of how an institution as VA engineers helps through CSR ”.