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| Aid is distributed through the Department of Social Welfare | The Alcantarilla City Council has received seven tons of non-perishable food, cleaning and hygiene products and basic necessities since the state of alarm caused by Covid-19 began.
These foods are destined for the neediest families in the municipality and at risk of social exclusion, who access aid through the Department of Social Welfare.
Since the Food Bank was launched on April 1, a total of 75 families, consisting of approximately 225 people, have benefited from food aid in kind. Previously, and since the confinement began on March 16, the City Council has offered municipal social emergency aid to a total of 80 families, and scholarships for school meals have been arranged for 172 students in the municipality. The products of the Food Bank are distributed by the Department of Social Welfare of the City Council through the Social Welfare workers and Civil Protection volunteers who organize the products of the collected and prepare the batches.
Families go by appointment and time to the place of delivery of food, unless there is an exceptional situation or the family is in a situation of isolation due to the Covid-19, illness or dependency situation and it is the Civil Protection volunteers who make the home delivery. Companies such as Hero España, Linasa, Supermercados Covirán, Supermercado Dragon, Supermercado Madrugas, Pan Benito, Cash-Directo and Alvalle, among others, have collaborated in the donation of products.
In addition, weekly the Food Bank of Segura has provided food, upon request of the City Council, depending on the needs of the distribution. Other companies have offered material means (refrigerated trucks and vans) for the transfer and distribution of food such as José Tovar, Barquero Logística and Antonio Martínez Tornero. The Mayor of Alcantarilla, Joaquín Buendía, has thanked all the businessmen of the city who have altruistically collaborated so that the people most affected by this health and economic crisis do not have such a bad time, and has highlighted, once again, " the solidarity of the residents of Alcantarilla, who turn to help ". Collaboration with the Red Cross The City Council also collaborates with the Red Cross, Local Sewer Assembly, to help the population in extreme vulnerability through the Red Cross Responds program.
Thus, the organization serves 48 families, made up of a total of 115 people, referred by the Department of Social Welfare, in the delivery of essential goods, food and hygiene products. The Red Cross also monitors weekly a total of 168 users of Telecare de Alcantarilla, to inform them of Covid-19 prevention advice, as well as thefts, scams and robberies.
If these people need any type of help to make the purchase, for reasons of mobility, high-risk person, etc., they are referred to Civil Protection of the Sewer, which helps them buy or acquire their medication.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Alcantarilla
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