| Many of them are specialized in offering care and attention to people with disabilities and urgently need liquidity to maintain their services | The Cartagena City Council will adapt the content of the subsidies to social entities to help them face the new needs that the health crisis is imposing on them in the development of their social and health work.In a meeting with six representative entities of the nearly forty who work on disability in the municipality, the vice mayor, Noelia Arroyo, informed them that the municipal employees of Social Care are preparing so that aid to social groups can arrive quickly when the municipal budget is approved definitively.The Presidents of Full Inclusion, Joaquín Barberá; FANDIF, Carmen Gil; ASTEAMUR, Juana Martínez de Haro; and the directors of ONCE, Miguel Paraíso; Apanda, Encarna Pérez and APICES, María José Hernández; in addition to the councilor delegate for Social Services, Mercedes García.Arroyo has expressed concern about the situation in which there are many entities that are specialized in offering care and attention to people with disabilities and who urgently need liquidity to maintain their services.
"We are going to work together to keep them active and we are going to collaborate so that the return to activity is done with the greatest guarantees of safety for the volunteers and workers of these entities and for the people they care for."The municipal officials have promised to mediate with the other administrations so that the entities receive aid as an essential activity that guarantees their survival, and to achieve personal protective equipment for their employees and periodic disinfection procedures for their premises.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena