SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 11. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Red Cross provides assistance to 243 Ukrainian people who were in Tenerife and who, after the war broke out in Ukraine, cannot return to their country.
Of these, 116 people are in a situation of vulnerability and have been sheltered in temporary accommodation resources managed by the Red Cross in Tenerife, of which 35 are minors. In addition, the accommodation of another 10 people is planned for the next few days.
Likewise, another 14 people, who have not required this benefit as they have a social support network on the island, have required aid to cover basic needs such as maintenance, cards for purchases in supermarkets, deliveries of goods or optics.
Among the Red Cross support tasks for these people are the transfer, accommodation, maintenance and coverage of basic needs, as well as offering them psychosocial support, health care and medication coverage, and Spanish classes.
Likewise, next week the organization of recreational activities with children is planned.
The organization has also made its entire network of assemblies on the islands available to Ukrainians who require its support.
In the first place, they are offered information of interest about their legal situation and the entities that are in charge of providing them with this assistance, and an assessment of their needs is made to establish criteria for aid, depending on whether they lack a social network. support on the island and its economic resources.
In the case of having a social support network, it is referred to the assemblies closest to the municipality of residence for inclusion in the ‘Extreme Vulnerability’ program, in order to be able to cover their basic needs.
Until now, most of these people have requested this help through the institution’s assemblies on the island of Tenerife and through the Red Cross Regional Operations Center, and a small percentage have been direct entries through the airport.
“From the Red Cross we see ourselves in the duty and obligation to extend our hand to these people who are in a situation of vulnerability, affected by one of the largest humanitarian emergencies in Europe in decades,” they indicate from the organization.
