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The Department of Social Rights works to design new resources against residential exclusion in the municipality, to ensure an "effective alternative" to the homeless outside the usual ones that are already in place, as explained by its director, Conchita Ruiz Caballero, during the presentation of the book 'residential exclusion in Murcia looks and paths ".

The publication, prepared by the Centre for Social Exclusion of the University of Murcia, along with the city of Murcia and third sector organizations working in the municipality, "is a snapshot of the current situation of this social phenomenon with a human face, which allows us to act in the right direction and take further action to promote the full inclusion of people who, for various reasons, have been pushed into a way of life based on mere survival. "

The mayor explained that one of these activities is the development of an international project, based on facilitating access to housing for homeless people with hardware and software support professionals to ensure a "positive evolution" in social integration user.

"This is breaking with tradition of simple prompt attention to ensure food and shelter for a few days to people moving from one place to another, without any destination," he pointed Ruiz Caballero.

8 million for prevention and social inclusion

The Department of Social Rights in 2016 has increased the budget for the development of actions on prevention of poverty and in favor of social inclusion, amounting to 8 million euros.

Thus, the councilman Ruiz Caballero highlighted project activities Children;

school support activities;

cyber classrooms and school support;

care programs for families at risk of social exclusion;

economic and social emergency aid actions aimed at the most vulnerable groups, mainly homeless and immigrants.

Specifically, the budget for these groups has increased by 4.70 percent, reaching 1,547,500 euros, earmarked for the contract for the provision of dining and lodging of Jesus Forsaken and subsidies to the various entities providing services in our town as Foundation CEPAIM, Columbares, Murcia Welcomes, Caritas, Neri Foundation RAIS Foundation, FSG, Federation Rasinet or Emmaus, among others, either for maintenance of host resources or accommodation, workshops that perform or promotion programs and job placement.

According to Ruiz, the municipality has a vast network of resources to meet this important challenge of care and integration of disadvantaged groups, passing through shelters, soup kitchen, supervised apartments, apartments for convalescents without family support, day centers for the homeless, street teams, workshops, employability programs, among others.

"All this coordinated and channeled through the Local Network for Social Inclusion", created last October by the Department of Social Rights.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia