SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Aug. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife has made all its resources available to those evicted from their homes and rehoused in different facilities and provisional shelters in the face of the social emergency that has occurred on the island of Tenerife due to the forest fire declared on the night of 15 of August in the mount of Arafo.
To do this, the management team has contacted the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife and the different municipal administrations to collaborate in the support that is being given to the thousands of affected families, as reported by the organization in a press release.
Likewise, Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife has contacted all the priests in the areas affected by the fire to attend to the basic needs of the victims, some of these priests coming, together with the parish volunteers, to help the evacuees who are still in the housing resources enabled for the evicted.
For their part, the technical teams of the Mobile Street Care Units for homeless people, UMAC project, are in contact with people who have been affected, many of whom have to be evacuated or confined to settlements, ravines, caves or substandard housing in which they resided.
Finally, they indicate that the management team is in contact with the municipal officials of the affected municipalities and with the Red Cross, and both the president of Cáritas Española, Manuel Bretón, and the institution’s general secretary, Natalia Peiro, are in contact to Coordinate all the actions that are being implemented to meet the needs of the affected people.
Finally, from Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife they join the request of the Diocese of Nivariense and pray to God that all the people who are working directly to put out this fire “do not suffer any harm and that their efforts are effective”, by while they pray for the authorities, for the security forces and for all the technicians so that they “make the right decisions, so that the fire can be controlled and put out soon.”
