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Public Works supports the acquisition of the vehicle with 12,000 euros, in the order of support specifically aimed at associations and nonprofit institutions

The Director General of Transport and Ports Ministry of Public Works and Planning, Carmen Sandoval, presented today a new vehicle adapted for transporting disabled people in Cartagena de Los Dolores, the Association of Guardianship Persons with Disabilities (Astus).

"To the regional government is a priority to help, through these grants, associations and nonprofit entities to develop a great work in partnership with the integration of disabled persons by providing the implementation of educational and cultural activities" , said the director general.

This new mode of transportation will serve the members of the Guardian Association of the Disabled (Prolam) who use the service of Occupational Center, where they develop programs to empower staff, relationships with others and knowledge of the environment .

The Public Works Department is funding the acquisition of the vehicle with 12,000 euros, in the order of support, specifically aimed at associations and nonprofit institutions, and for which grants were awarded to 17 different agencies carry out their work Region for the purchase of 19 vehicles adapted for an amount of 280,000 euros.

In addition, Guardian Association of the Disabled (Astus) is a nonprofit organization whose primary objective the improvement of quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy and their families.

It is an entity that is part of the Federation of Organizations for People FEAPS-Murcia, with intellectual disabilities and cerebral palsy that includes 27 states and serves about 3,000 families.

"Today, Astus has 35 volunteers serving 470 families, representing the important work being done by this organization on a social level. For this reason, and through this grant from the Ministry lend support to this association to facilitate the transfer of their members and contribute to personal and social development of these people, "concluded Carmen Sandoval.

Source: CARM