SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Jan. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Metrotenerife, the public transport company of the Cabildo de Tenerife, made a donation of 5,000 euros from its Social Responsibility Plan to help those affected on the island of La Palma by the eruption of the volcano.
The vice president of the Cabildo, Enrique Arriaga, the insular director of Mobility, José Alberto León, and the provincial president of the Red Cross in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Mayte Pociello Marty, were present at the delivery of the donation.
Arriaga presented the donation to Mayte Pociello and highlighted the character of solidarity that the Tenerife Tram has always shown, supporting initiatives of various kinds.
“On this occasion, we want to contribute, as far as possible, to the affected people recovering their ways of life and for this we have the collaboration of the Red Cross, a humanitarian institution that from the first moment has been acting in La Palma with its emergency teams, and so far more than 400 people have intervened, including volunteers and staff,” Arriaga stressed.
Pociello thanked Metrotenerife for the donation to contribute to the reconstruction of the ‘Isla Bonita’ and explained that “this item will directly help cover the needs of the victims”, while recalling that “at least 700 of the buried properties were first home”.
“Metrotenerife extends its hand and joins many other entities to help at a time as exceptional as the one La Palma is experiencing and in which everyone’s collaboration is needed,” added the island’s Director of Mobility, José Alberto León.
RED CROSS IN LA PALMA
Throughout these months of eruption, the Red Cross is developing an important intervention and emergency device with actions to support the transfer of those affected, care in shelters and later in the hotels set up for them, psychological support, cleaning of ashes on roofs, assistance in medical transfers, distribution of masks and protective glasses to the population of the area, among other measures.
It has also moved to the area a field hospital with capacity for 50 people, more than 30 emergency vehicles, equipment to temporarily house some 1,200 people and communications equipment.
