The City of Cartagena has shown solidarity and affection in these difficult moments with the people of Ecuador.
Mayor Jose Lopez, has called for a minute of silence for Thursday at the Palace Hall while has spread the account number that has enabled Ecuador embassy in Spain to help earthquake victims
The strong 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocks that struck last Saturday Manabi province, northeast of Ecuador, has aroused the solidarity of Cartagena.
On behalf of them all, the mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, has contacted the consulate of Ecuador in Murcia to offer all the help and solidarity of the members of the Consistory.
The mayor has made available to the representatives of the people of Ecuador all municipal resources that are useful to them and reiterated the full cooperation of the City of Cartagena as possible.
For its part, the vice-consul of Ecuador in Murcia, Juan Xavier Valencia Quiñones, head of the consulate in the absence of that in May take up office the new consul, has made known the mayor that now the priority humanitarian aid leads water, food assistance (canned and dry foods) as well as non-food assistance items (large tents, sleeping bags, hygiene kits, portable rechargeable lamps or LEDs, batteries and kitchen utensils).
He also noted that only accept donations which air, sea or land transport is funded by the same donors.
In addition to these emergency supplies, all economic aid received will be useful to rebuild the areas most affected by earthquake damage where citizens lack the most basic.
To do this, from the Embassy of Ecuador it has enabled an account number at Banco Santander for citizens who wish to make their financial contributions with'the following data:
Title: Embassy of Ecuador,
IBAN: ES16 0049 5132 4225 1627 0535.
The contributions can be made at any office of Banco Santander in Spain, opening hours: Monday to Friday from 08:30 to 14:00.
Similarly deposits will be accepted at any branch of Small World in Spain.
You can check the nearest office Small World by calling 91 217 29 86.
The Ecuadorian people is the third largest group of foreign population in Cartagena, with more than 1,500 men and women surveyed in the city, after Moroccans and the English who are first and second respectively.
for Ecuadorian residents municipo the Ecuadorian Government has set up a phone number for information on the status of their relatives.
The teléfonoes the 900,935,930.
A MINUTE OF SILENCE
As a sign of solidarity, the City of Cartagena has called for tomorrow, April 21, one minute silencio.El event will take place at the door of the Town Hall at 12: 30 hours, three days after the tragedy that has left by when 507 died and more than 4,000 wounded.
The work of finding survivors still continue between new shocks and tremors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena