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The Bureau recovered in recent days 70,000 euros of repayable advances for rent and requests for assistance in this line fall more than 93%.
The Councillor for Social Services City of Lorca, Fátima Mínguez, has reported that the strength gained by the process of recovery and reconstruction of the town after the earthquakes of 2011 has made requests for help to the draft comprehensive social care reduce Bureau for almost 70%, from 216 to 56, a fall that was especially pronounced in the last three months, from 82 to 56.
Silvente Mínguez explained that this sharp decline is added drop requests in the line of repayable advances, which has dropped from 423 to just 30, which translates into a decrease of 93%.
It is recalled that the Bureau has distributed to date a total of 6,392,658.60 euros among families affected by the earthquakes of 2011 and 2012 floods.
The mayor of Social Services explained that at the last meeting of the Bureau, held in the afternoon yesterday, it was reported that refunds repayable advances for access to a rent rise, after the recovery of a new series of aids estimated at almost 70,000 euros, the overall total amount of 1,241,881.29 euros.
He realized at that meeting also the economic situation of the entity, and approved to continue the Comprehensive Social Services Project, extending it for a period of 3 months.
The main needs addressed from the project were as follows:
Financial contributions to the payment of rental housing.
financial aid to cover basic needs.
Specific aid for payment of basic services supply.
specific financial aid for payment of books.
specific financial aid for replacement goods.
support financial aid for home repairs.
financial aid for prosthesis.
The Councillor of Social Services has indicated that it is a pioneering project aimed attention to families affected by the earthquakes in 2011 in Lorca, coordinated by municipal social services and emerged to the existence of problematic situations that have not been able to meet with aid covered in the generated frame.
Throughout this period of project implementation Comprehensive Social Services for Standardization of Families affected by earthquakes in Lorca, you can confirm that the needs of the lorquina population affected by earthquakes and in situations that did not qualify any of the aid, have been numerous and varied.
From the outset the project has permeated society, being therefore very much demanded by citizens.
Proof of this is the number of visits that have been made, the number of steps taken, home visits, coordination meetings, receiving internal referrals from the different units of Social Work Social Services Center of Lorca, coordination and contact external resources to social services, as well as the number of economic aid approved by the Local Government.
The mayor of Social Services stressed that economic assistance that have been made to reach families and Lorca are around 6.4 million euros.
We are talking about 6 million reasons to thank each and every one of the people, associations and groups of different kinds collaboration they have had with our city after the tragedy we suffered that fateful May 11.
Thanks to the work carried to term from this table, formed at the request of the Mayor, we have achieved that families most affected by earthquakes count on economic assistance to normalize the situation.
The contribution of this entity to the recovery of Lorca has been fundamental.
Fátima Mínguez has stated that the objective of this node work has been, from day one, contribute to the recovery and reconstruction of our town, the main axis of his task to foster normalization of daily life of Lorca.
We believe that once carried a balance cold and over time, we have managed to overcome phases and complete objectives.
We can say that the work carried out by the Bureau has been highly positive.
It is still a very valuable experience, which we must emphasize the overall degree of consensus in establishing the different lines of aid and assistance by which we have benefited thousands of Lorca.
Except for very specific exceptions and it is better to forget, the components of the Bureau have shown that we can work together and that when the interests of Lorca take precedence over partisan or other postulates, the result is very beneficial for society.
We believe, moreover, that full transparency with which it has worked from day one, and we have done involve citizens through the media, has earned us the confidence of the various associations, groups and administrations that have contributed, and continue to, acts and solidarity with the funds of the Bureau aid.
The mayor of Social Services explained that the total recorded in income accounts managed by the Bureau and channels today amounts to 6,499,975.93 euros, with a positive balance of 107,317.33 euros.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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