Cáritas and a village company organize a peculiar exchange this Sunday 19: a kilo of non-perishable food for a kilo of avocados from the island of La Palma.
Cáritas and the Orotava Aguacates company organize this Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., a peculiar solidarity action: the exchange of a kilo of non-perishable food, destined for families with limited resources in the municipality, for a kilo of palm avocados donated by the company directed by Vicente Santos. The initial forecast is to barter at least 350 kilos of avocados for as many kilos of legumes, rice, pasta, milk or cookies that will be distributed among the more than 300 families that Caritas serves in La Orotava.
THE DAY He went yesterday to the Orotava Aguacates warehouse on the La Luz highway, where company personnel and the archpriest coordinator of Cáritas Diócesana in the Orotava Valley, Milagros González, began the process of bagging the avocados from the palm trees that will make possible that many residents of the Villa receive extra help in the form of non-perishable food.
“The food that is gathered will allow us to have a quantity of food to distribute directly and complement the service that we offer with the purchase cards in supermarkets. Only in La Orotava we serve more than 1,200 people “, explained Milagros González.
Vicente Santos Luis recalls that last May he conveyed to Cáritas his intention to organize some act of solidarity to collaborate with the people who are experiencing the worst, “Because today we are here and tomorrow, who knows, we may be on the other side.” Previously, he had donated avocados directly to Caritas and Hogar Santa Rita, but with this act he hopes to go even further and provide more necessary food, “inspired by those exchanges that our grandparents used to do.”
The solidarity day on Sunday will be organized outside the church of San Agustín, in La Orotava, next to the House of Culture and the Plaza del Quiosco. In the event that it rains, the parish priest has already authorized the exchange of food inside the temple. So on December 19 there will be solidarity avocados “yes or yes.”
Initially it is expected to have 350 kilos of avocados to exchange for as many kilos of non-perishable food, although larger donations will be accepted and even contributions with nothing in return. To avoid abuse, the exchange of one kilogram bag per family is limited. In addition, a solidarity raffle will be organized for several lunches or dinners in restaurants, and all that is collected will go “entirely for the benefit of those affected by the La Palma volcano.”
