| The initiative will start tomorrow and will remain active until December 3 to collect basic necessities that will be sent to the Segura Food Bank, who will take care of your cast | The Vistalegre-La Flota Municipal Board will begin tomorrow a food collection campaign that will be active until December 3 with the slogan 'Small gestures that give life' to collect essential products that will be delivered to the Food Bank of the Segura, an entity that will be in charge of distributing it among the most needy families, a group that it serves daily.The councilor for Pedanías and Barrios of the Murcia City Council, Marco Antonio Fernández, and the president of the Vistalegre-La Flota Municipal Board, Santiago Vera, have presented this morning this campaign, which aims to gather, among other products, canned food, oil, milk, cookies, sugar, rice, legumes, flour, juices, canned fruits, pasta, cocoa powder and children's products.Tuesdays and Thursdays between 6:00 p.m.
and 8:00 p.m.Those interested in supporting this food collection can go to the headquarters of the Vistalegre-La Flota Municipal Board, located on Calle Actor Isidoro Máiquez in Murcia, on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 6:00 p.m.
and 8:00 p.m.Marco Antonio Fernández has pointed out that "solidarity gestures like this have been a constant since the beginning of the pandemic generated by the coronavirus and are very necessary to weave a support network that helps the most vulnerable, a group with which the City Council has an unwavering commitment that we will always renew by supporting everyone who approaches asking for our collaboration.
"For his part, Santiago Vera pointed out that "we encourage all citizens to participate in this campaign, whose main objective is to promote solidarity with the most needy through the delivery of basic foodstuffs.
Solidarity becomes more important than never in times of socio-health crisis like the one we are going through and what we seek is to help those who need it most.
"Radio Taxi Murcia campaign to receive and deliver donationsThe neighborhood associations Abenarabi Norte, Vistalegre and Las Tres Copas de La Flota collaborate in this initiative.
In addition, Pilar Torres and Santiago Vera have recalled that the Radio Taxi Murcia campaign is still active by which those who wish to can deliver food to taxi drivers of this organization, who will be in charge of channeling the donations so that they reach the Food Bank.
Those interested in participating in this initiative can notify their participation by calling the telephone number 968 24 88 00.The Murcian Consistory, through the Department of Social Rights and Family, collaborates with these campaigns.
One of the latest donations that the City Council has coordinated has been the delivery of 11,150 kilos of food that the new Cáritas Diocesana Food Distribution Center received, recently inaugurated in the Murcian neighborhood of San Antón.
The delivery was made by the Association of Supermarkets of the Region of Murcia (ASUMUR) and MercaMurcia.Similarly, the Government Team granted an extraordinary grant of 750,000 euros to Cáritas, the Red Cross and the Food Bank that allowed the creation of a food distribution service that covers the entire municipality and that served from the beginning to more than 2,000 people, more than 600 of them minors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia