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| The Murcia City Council subsidizes this line of action with 75,000 euros, which will continue for the duration of the effects of the socio-sanitary crisis caused by the expansion of the Covid-19 | The Murcia City Council is going to subsidize the Fundación Patronato Jesús Abandonado project called 'Viviendas en Femenino' for an amount of 75,000 euros, which will allow 16 homeless women to be accommodated in 4 supervised flats.The councilor for Social and Family Rights, Pilar Torres, presented the plan this morning with the director and vice president of Jesús Abandonado, Daniel López Fernández and José Fernández López.The Government Board, at its last meeting, gave its approval to the authorization of this expense, proposed by the Department of Social Rights and Family.

'Viviendas en Femenino' will remain active as long as the effects of the socio-sanitary crisis caused by the expansion of Covid-19 last.The measure is part of the battery of social measures that the Government Team is coordinating to face the coronavirus pandemic and of the close collaboration that the Consistory maintains with third sector entities to implement actions to alleviate the effects of the crisis of the coronavirus among the most needy.Reduce lack of protectionThis project seeks to face the social consequences generated by the pandemic.

Specifically, it focuses on comprehensive care for homeless women, who have been left, if possible, in a situation of greater vulnerability than they had already suffered as a result of the pandemic.Various profilesThe women who will participate in the plan will represent different profiles and will be in different phases of their social integration process.

A support team will be in charge of maintaining a fluid and direct contact with the beneficiaries to attend to their needs.

Currently one of the four floors that make up the program is already underway.

4 women are receiving attention.In the choice of women to whom care will be provided, Jesús Abandonado will act in coordination with the Prevention and Social Insertion Service of the City Council and with the Mobile Emergency Service for Social Care (SEMAS), both dependent on the Department of Rights Social.The councilor for Social Rights, Pilar Torres, has indicated that "homeless women are one of the most vulnerable groups that currently exist in society.

This project was born with the aim of changing that situation and from the Murcian Consistory we are going to contribute everything whatever it takes to run successfully.

"More protection means and resourcesThis project is linked to the intervention plan with people who beg as managed by the Social Services Area.

The objective of this initiative is to protect a group, such as homeless women, who frequently suffer situations of violence and lack the adequate means and resources for their protection.For the beginning of the project, a professional will dedicate himself exclusively to working with women on the street in coordination with SEMAS.

The realization of individual work plans, centered on the person, will allow to build a process of acquiring different competences aimed at subverting the situation of social exclusion in which the foster women find themselves.The Immigrant and Passer-by Service of the Murcia City Council, in collaboration with the Jesús Abandonado Foundation's socio-health area, will be responsible for selecting the beneficiaries and referring them to participate in the project.Initial period of between 3 and 12 monthsThe initial time that the chosen women will be in the supervised flats will be 3 months, but between the municipal Social Services and Jesús Abandonado they will be able to decide the continuity in the project of the selected ones up to 12 months or more time even if the circumstances of the women attended so recommend it.The Department of Social Rights has redoubled its work and actions of social care to face the consequences of the coronavirus crisis, which has had a serious impact for the most vulnerable groups, who on many occasions do not have the capacity to reverse themselves.

the situation.Jesús Abandonado is a non-profit entity that carries out actions to fight poverty and exclusion in the municipality of Murcia, whose objective is to guarantee the exercise of social rights for people living in poverty and social exclusion and to promote and execute the assistance actions that are necessary to face the situation.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia