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Murcia City Council allocated resources of its emergency fund to help victims of the earthquake in Ecuador last April 16 which caused 500 dead, over 4,000 injured and 1,700 missing persons, besides completely devastated cities.
The Plenum of the Corporation held today has approved an institutional statement to "express our solidarity and affection for the families of thousands of victims," ​​while recognizing that murcianos "We are particularly close to the Ecuadorian people, as which for decades it has linked immigration and twinned link to the Region of Murcia with Ecuador ".
"We stand with the people of Ecuador and so we want to show," says the agreement, in which a "special memory and recognition of the more than 30,000 Ecuadorian migrants who reside, work and live" in Murcia, where, in addition is also offered, there is an "even greater awareness" because of the tragedy in Lorca.
Therefore, the text approved with the support of the entire Municipal Corporation appealed to the Murcian society so that "in these times of dire need" respond "to the call of solidarity and actively participate" in the campaigns developed for this purpose.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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