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| The Department of Social Rights has contributed financially to this work with subsidies worth 377,470 euros | The Murcia City Council, through its Social Services, maintains close collaboration with third-sector entities.
This joint effort has had a special relevance as a result of the outbreak of the socio-health crisis generated by the expansion of Covid-19. One of the entities with which the Murcian Consistory works hand in hand is the Red Cross.
The local assembly that this organization has in Murcia has provided social care to 1,565 Murcian families since the beginning of the pandemic. The Department of Social Rights and Family has contributed financially to this work with the granting of subsidies worth 377,340 euros, the last aid received the approval of the Local Government Board less than two weeks ago . Visit of the councilor The families served have received a total of 12,898 deliveries of batches with food, cleaning and personal hygiene products.
These data were released this morning by the mayor of Social and Family Rights, Pilar Torres, during a visit she has made to the facilities of the Red Cross in Murcia on General San Mart n Street.
The councilor has offered a balance of the actions that the City Council and this social organization have developed jointly.
He has also held a working meeting with the president of the Red Cross in Murcia, Mercedes Navarro. The mayor Pilar Torres has pointed out that “the socio-sanitary crisis generated by the expansion of the coronavirus has represented an unprecedented challenge for our Social Services, which served almost 13,000 more people in 2020 than during all of 2019.
In In the response we are articulating, social entities play a fundamental role.
Your work multiplies our response and allows us to increase the beneficiaries of our policies.
We will always be by your side working side by side to overcome the social bill of the pandemic ”. The Red Cross 'Responde' project aims to purchase food and basic necessities for the care of individuals and families referred by the Municipal Social Services for the immediate coverage of their basic food needs.
n, as well as other essential needs derived from the coronavirus crisis. Complications caused by the second wave of Covid The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated and worsened the situation of people and families who were already vulnerable and has caused the incorporation of this group of numerous other families and people who either reside in areas of the municipality of Murcia that do not have in their immediate environment a food distribution organization that facilitates access to basic necessities, or they must remain confined or in quarantine and lack their own means to access said products.
The Red Cross 'Responde' project tries to address this situation to correct it. In the 1,565 families assisted in total by the Red Cross, there are more than 600 minors who have received social support.
The Social Services of the City Council and the Red Cross articulated a method that came into operation 8 months ago and consists of establishing distribution routes for the delivery of basic food, personal and household hygiene products and children's products such as baby food and diapers to vulnerable families in the municipality of Murcia. The 'Responde' project has allowed families from Murcia city and the districts of Corvera, Valladolises, Puebla de Soto, Rinc n de Beniscornia, Sangonera la Verde, Baños y Mendigo, Los Mart nez del Puerto, Gea and Truyol, Avileses, Cañada de San Pedro, Valladolises, Barqueros, Cañada Hermosa, Sucina, Aljucer, El Palmar, San Gin s, Nonduermas, Rinc n de Seca, Era Alta, El Raal, Alquerias and Lobosillo. Network of 126 volunteers In this support network, the 126 Red Cross volunteers have played a fundamental role, who have been in charge of the distribution of essential products and guaranteed their delivery to users referred by Social Services.
The volunteers have also carried out support tasks in the administrative management derived from the intervention itself. Other entities, such as Carrefour, Alcampo and the Banco de Alimentos del Segura have also participated in the deliveries by donating school supplies and food products to complete the breakfasts and snacks. The City Council enabled an extraordinary financing line worth 750,000 euros that was addressed to the Red Cross, C ritas Diocesana and the Segura Food Bank and allowed the start-up of a delivery service of food that covered the entire territory of the municipality of Murcia since its inception and made it possible to respond to the needs presented by families at risk of social exclusion who could not have access by themselves same to basic necessities.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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