A total of twenty charitable entities of Tenerife benefit from the distribution of two million distributed by the Island Council as direct grants for humanitarian reasonsdistilled to entities associated with the Tenerife Solidarity Island Program of the Insular Corporation that They distribute food and basic necessities among the vulnerable population.
The call for these grants was approved on October 13 last year and it became effective on the 18th of that month, giving a term of fifteen working days for the presentation of applications. The Tenerife Solidarity Island Program established two lines of action, one endowed with one million euros, to support related entities or representatives of the organizations designated by the Agricultural Guarantee Fund (Fega) as an Associate Organization for the Distribution of food and essential products of the European Fund for the most disadvantaged people. This is the case of Red Cross and the Spanish Federation of Food Banks as associated distribution organizations, as stated in the bases of the call.
Next to the so-called Line 1, another item of two million for entities associated with the Tenerife Solidarity Island Program that attends to the population in a situation of vulnerability, within Line 2, with a budget of two million. In both cases, the execution period is from May 31, 2021 to May 31, 2023.
The aid provided by the Social Action area will be distributed through twenty charitable entities that meet the requirements established through the direct delivery of food or other essential products, as well as food prepared for consumption, in the case of soup kitchens.
The possibility is also contemplated that help be sent through prepaid social cards, with their corresponding top-ups and economic replenishments depending on demand.
Among the requirements established to qualify for the subsidies definitively approved on January 3, the entities must be attached to the Tenerife Solidarity Island Program.
The two million allocated within Line 2, to which twenty associations have accepted, regulates that 400,000 euros are distributed equally among the entities that can choose to the grant and apply for it. It sets a second criterion by population served between January and May 2021 to distribute 1.2 million of the total allocationproportionally and based on the number of people served, according to data from Sinpromi. By lastanother 400,000 euros are distributed among the entities based on their territorial implementationly if they distribute aid in more than 19 municipalities on the Island.
The regulatory bases establish that twenty entities benefited from these grants –for a value of three million that were distributed on Line 1 and Line 2– must justify the aid from June 1 to June 31 of next year, after the next local elections, although the bases make it clear that the associations that receive this aid from the Cabildo will have the obligation to submit to the actions of control of the General Intervention of the Cabildo.
The regulation establishes that entities will have to repay the full amount of the grant if they have falsified the conditions, hide or do not justify the expense; too You will have to partially repay the money. when it is proven that you have fewer beneficiaries than declared, do not spend at least half or do not state in your actions that you have the collaboration of the Cabildo de Tenerife.
Two million for 20 entities
Twenty-two charitable organizations applied for the call for direct grants for entities associated with the Tenerife Solidarity Island Program. One of them, the Canary Islands Association for the Defense of Human Rights resigned to opt for the cast on November 22, 2021, while se dismissed the petition directed by the Asociación Solidaria de Corazón. Although this entity is part of the Tenerife Island Solidarity Program of the Cabildo, it fails to meet the specific requirement of the call, which sets as a condition that it distribute food and other essential products.
The two million in direct grants are distributed among twenty charitable entities that, between January and May 2021, attended a total of 39,863 users, according to Sinpromi.
Only Diocesan Caritas of Tenerife and the NGO Anaga Canary Smiles AAVV XXI Century of Valleseco they prove to have insular implantation; that is, serving vulnerable people in more than 19 municipalities. For this reason, Cáritas is the entity that receives the most money, 460,824.83 euros –with 8,000 beneficiaries–, followed by Sonrisas Canarias, with 370,515.52 euros, with 5,000 users.
The Kairos Associationwhich proves to be the one that attends the most people of the twenty entities, with 8,178 users, is the third by volume of subsidy, with 246,183 euros, since it does not opt for the distribution of 400,000 euros for working throughout the Island.
The rest of the beneficiary entities are made up of Jose Luis Montesinos Foundation (131,381 euros), NGO Smiles of the Southwest (130,448.29), The Miraculous Soup Kitchen (112,235.91), Tenerife South Rotary Club (79,634.25), Good Samaritan Foundationof Father Pepe de Añaza (44,082.48), AAVV Garcia Escámez (42,477.33), The rock (40,831.35), AC include me (39,687.58), Candelaria Solidarity (38,061.86), My Neighborhood El Carmen Moves (38,061.86), Space 3.16 (33,847.43), NGO Coats and Smile (32,041), life with health (29,030.93), Sign of Life Tenerife (28,669.69), Gypsy Karipen (28,519.18), Venezuelan Canary Friends Forgers of Freedoms (26,773.20) and Atlantic Social Intervention (26,592.58).
