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| The Service of Prevention and Social Insertion serves 686 families, with 619 minors, through a food distribution network that covers to the entire municipality | The Murcia City Council, through the Department of Social and Family Rights, headed by the mayor Pilar Torres, currently guarantees access to basic food for 2,016 people who are in a vulnerable situation.The Prevention and Social Insertion Service serves 686 families through a food distribution network that has been extended in recent weeks to cover the entire municipality.Of the 2,016 people served by the Department, 1,563 are adults and 619, minors.
So far in May, the service has expanded to 184 more families.
Councilwoman Torres explained that "the socio-sanitary crisis caused by Covid-19 has forced us to act quickly and agilely to respond to the increase in demand that has occurred.
Therefore, we have multiplied the human and material resources ”.Presence in all districts"The workers of the Department have jointly assumed an over-effort to coordinate a common response that would not leave any area of ??the municipality unattended.
We have taken the food delivery service to areas where it was not present, such as the districts of Corvera, Sucina, Valladolises, Cañadas de San Pedro and Rincón de Seca, among others, ”explained Pilar Torres.From the first moment Social Rights articulated the attention to the most vulnerable families supported with the 62 points of attention that Cáritas Diocesana manages through the work it carries out in the parishes.By increasing the demand for food, the Department, in collaboration with third sector entities, promoted the design of a territorial map to ensure the distribution of food to all families that require it.
Cáritas also played a fundamental role in this work, being in direct contact with the social reality existing in each territory.Extraordinary financing of 750,000 eurosThis increase in the area of ??action has been made thanks to the collaboration maintained by the Department with the Red Cross.
The government team has approved in recent weeks an extraordinary fund of 750,000 euros to finance the work that social entities such as this are carrying out to guarantee that no citizen is left without access to basic food.In this work, 40 social work units are carried out, which are distributed throughout the municipality.
Its members are in charge of articulating the support network that guarantees the arrival of food to those most in need.The distribution entities in the municipality of Murcia are the Food Bank of Segura, the Red Cross and Cáritas.
In turn, they refer the food delivery service to other support associations, which ensures that service coverage is guaranteed throughout the municipality.
Some of the entities that provide their support are Columbares, Project Abraham, Ministry of the King, Ebenezer Assembly of God Church and various associations of housewives.Cast in Llano de BrujasCouncilor Pilar Torres has visited Llano de Brujas, where the Municipal Board, chaired by Jesús Zapata, has organized the distribution of food for 304 beneficiaries belonging to 72 families served by Cáritas.
The mayor pointed out that "this is only one example of the task that we are coordinating on a daily basis in support of those who need it most."The Social Services of the City Council are in charge of channeling the contributions and donations made by residents on a private basis, as well as non-profit associations.
The work of the technicians of the Department allows the aid to reach all those who need it.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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