The solidarity of the residents, associations and companies of the municipality of The Realejos It will allow 150 minors of 107 vulnerable families in the town to enjoy all the illusion of the arrival of their majesties the Three Wise Men from the East. The royal mayor, Manuel Domínguez (PP), has publicly thanked “the solidarity of the royal people, which has once again been demonstrated with a new call for the initiative Sponsor an illusion With which it has been achieved that 107 families of the municipality in a situation of economic vulnerability receive the arrival of Their Majesties the Three Wise Men of the East to satisfy the wishes of 150 minors’ letters».
The councilor responsible for Social Welfare area in the northern municipality, Olga Jorge (PP), highlights that in this eleventh edition of the local initiative Ampadrina un illusion have been a total of 130 godfathers and godmothers, both individuals and groups, who have turned and joined this solidarity action «in order to contribute so that no home in Los Realejos loses the illusion of a day as special as the Kings Day, fundamentally thinking about the smallest of each house ».
Olga Jorge thanked in a special way “the work carried out by the technical staff of the area of Minors and Social Welfare, as always at the height of the circumstances, since they have been in charge of analyzing the situation of the households with reports and files of the Social services, and to collect requests from minors. Later they have also contacted the different godfathers and godmothers, putting a lot of heart into the initiative so that everything is ready and that this solidarity action becomes a reality in Los Realejos one more year ».
The staff of the area of Social Welfare and Minors has been in charge of coordinating the action
This local project arose eleven years ago with the objective that no minor in the municipality is left without receiving gifts in the magical night of Kings through the collaboration of families, entities and companies.
For the local government (PP), «on these dates when reunions, family and the illusion of the little ones take on greater prominence, we maintain a magical tradition around Magician Kings of the East that we have been seasoning with the impulse and call for solidarity from royal society so that no boy or girl has nothing to open on January 6 ».
This solidarity initiative lived in November 2020 one of its most remembered moments when Francisco Hernandez Bencomo, better known as Pancho, donated all the toys and school supplies that he had left in his toy store Musitoys, closed since 2017. Civil Protection volunteers and municipal staff completely emptied the premises. Pancho confessed then that he only kept a couple of bicycles for his granddaughter. That year several vans were filled with toys, bikes, dolls, stuffed animals, backpacks and school supplies that were left in this toy store founded in 1983.
