The Councilor for Citizen Participation and Diversity of the Council of Tenerife, Nauzet Gugliotta, held a meeting with representatives of the Red Cross in charge of executing the project to Care for Ukrainian Families on the Island and their relatives who have arrived in Tenerife after the start from the war.
The meeting took place at the Red Cross offices in Puerto de la Cruz, from which the different care services will be channeled. The meeting was also attended by the mayor, Marco González; the provincial vice president of the Red Cross, Heliodoro González; the regional technical director, Dácil Hernández; the provincial coordinator, Rubén González; technical staff, and the volunteer team.
“The meeting has served to assess the situation in which the Ukrainian people who benefit from these interventions find themselves, learn about their difficulties and problems to work in a coordinated manner, responding to their most urgent and immediate basic needs,” said Gugliotta, who stressed that “It is the first action of these characteristics carried out by the Red Cross in the Canary Islands through a public administration.”
The counselor clarified that “the Cabildo has financed this project with 156,436 euros, which will run until June 2023, with the aim of improving the adaptation of Ukrainian families, covering their basic needs and promoting their social integration into local life”. In its development, specific work will be done with girls and boys, and young people, between 5 and 17 years old, registered and schooled, who will have academic and psychological support services, alternative leisure and school aids, among other resources, so that do not lose the dynamics of your studies.
The project has just started in the North region, with some 80 families, although it covers the entire island and has an adapted transport service to pick up children and young people from the South as well.
