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| The council has organized domestic supplies for the elderly to prevent their going out on the street | The Department of Social Services has reinforced in the last week its protection program against the cold with a device through which it is offering accommodation to people in street situations, improvements in habitability to families without resources and supplies at home to elderly people who live alone to avoid exposure to the cold. Local police and Civil Protection volunteers collaborate with social workers, coordinated with volunteers from La Huertecica, Accem, Red Cross and Caritas. The surveillance and aid work, which is carried out throughout the year, intensified before the announcement of the arrival of the storm Filomena and will remain active for the next few days, given the announced persistence of intense cold, according to n has announced the vice mayor and head of Social Care, Noelia Arroyo. “Municipal officials are making outings in the morning, afternoon and night to locate homeless people and offer them accommodation arranged with the Hospitalidad de Santa Teresa.

We have accommodation to cover all needs, although some people decide to stay on the streets and both our professionals and social entities follow them up to try to protect them from the cold ”. In addition, the city council has organized the reinforcement of care for the elderly who live alone through the companies that provide help at home, reinforcing information, their surveillance and supplying their homes with food and medicine.

so they do not have to leave their home and expose themselves to the cold for the next few days.

The companies that provide food delivery services, remote assistance, home help service and family respite collaborate in this strategy. Arroyo has asked citizens not to hesitate to contact the Local Police if they detect a person living on the street so that they can be given the help they need.

“Many of these people suffer from serious addiction problems and our professionals know about their cases and try to get them to leave the street and enter recovery programs.

In other cases they are passersby.

We can all provide some kind of help and the information that citizens give us can facilitate this work ”.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena