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Morales calls for much greater government support to the homeless
Alicia Morales, a candidate for mayor with NOW MURCIA, visited the facilities of Jesus Forsaken Foundation in Murcia.
Solidarity organization, who attended last year more than 8,000 people, is a leader in social work with the homeless.
The head of the list has seen first hand and accompanied by sociologist and social worker Miguel Angel Alzamora, also a candidate for NOW MURCIA, how from organizing a complex integral work is developed to respond to the diversity of situations of homelessness in the city of Murcia.
MURCIA NOW collects Jesus Forsaken proposal for legislation regarding the homeless at the regional and state level as already happens in other countries, legislation that "requires all municipalities to develop a local strategy attention to homeless from a previous analysis of the needs in this area ", according to experts of the organization.
Among the more concrete proposals contained highlight the need for labor insertion projects by companies of specific employment for people in social exclusion;
independent housing with support from professionals, and implementation of programs known as "housing first", to promote access to independent houses from the beginning of the intervention.
During the visit, the candidate of NOW MURCIA has interviewed workshop monitors, nurses, social workers, and has seen advances in intervention that the organization has developed in recent years that the problems that lead to situations social exclusion have increased.
Morales has been very interested in the work done by professionals and volunteers in programs for housing and autonomous social pension.
According to Morales, "the work of Jesus Forsaken is much more complex than the image that society has. They are the government, and in the case of the homeless, the City Council in cooperation with the autonomous region, who have the responsibility for working out and providing resources to these organizations that deal with those who have lost almost everything. "
The situations of vulnerability and social exclusion, which are the field of intervention of Jesus Forsaken, are very diverse, and include cases of farm workers who have very precarious working conditions and wages that can enable them to pay just a room;
people who have lost all their social relations;
other main problem with lack of access to housing on the open market and have an alternative public housing, or those with severe mental health problems or drug addiction.
Source: Ahora Murcia
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