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The Councilor for Youth and Development Cooperation, Rebeca Pérez, proposed this morning in the Special Cooperation Council to allocate humanitarian aid in Sierra Leone.
The group of members of this Council has decided to allocate to 15,000 euros the item to be invested in this area of ​​central Africa.
"What we propose is to find ways of collaborating with NGOs that are working in the field and with which we have established previous relationships to implement projects that help to mitigate the devastating effects caused by the meteorological inclemencies and that could now cause the proliferation of New epidemics, "said Rebeca Pérez.
The proposals will be considered at the next session of the Cooperation Council.
Sierra Leone has recently suffered heavy flooding that has left more than 500 dead and 1,500 missing, according to estimates by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
A situation that makes collaboration even more necessary to help more than 5,000 people, out of a total of 1,600 families affected, particularly in Racecourse, Regent and Lumley, the most affected areas of Freetown, the capital.
All efforts now focus on preventing any outbreak and the spread of malaria due to standing waters, which offer ideal conditions for the reproduction of mosquitoes that transmit various diseases.
This disease is responsible for 20% of under-five deaths in Sierra Leone.
In addition, Sierra Leone occupies one of the last places in the list of countries according to the Human Development Index, with a life expectancy of 51 years, a mortality rate of 13.3% and a per capita income Does not reach 650 euros.
In this way the City of Murcia, through the Department of Youth and Development Cooperation, maintains its firm commitment to the countries most in need.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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