SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Feb. 17 (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Cabildo de Tenerife will allocate this year more than 255 million euros to the Area of Social Action, Citizen Participation and Diversity, which represents almost a third of the budget of the Island Corporation and an increase of more than 24% of the items allocated to the social area in these three years.
The budget was presented today Thursday at a press conference by the president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín; the Minister of Social Action, Citizen Participation and Diversity, Marian Franquet; the CEO of Equality and Prevention of Gender Violence, Priscila de León, and the CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity, Nauzet Gugliotta.
In his speech, Pedro Martín affirmed that the social field requires “intense” work and financing because without either of these two things “there is no social policy that is worth”. In this sense, he highlighted the effort that the Cabildo is making in social action, one of the areas in which it is intervening “with greater decision” and that constitutes “a fundamental backbone” of the island government’s action.
Pedro Martín detailed the global budget of the social area for this year, 231 million are destined for Social Action; 2.2 million to Citizen Participation and Diversity; 10.1 million to Sinpromi, and 11 million to equality policies. Likewise, he valued the financial increase in the social area, at a time when the income of the Cabildo has decreased.
According to the president, this has allowed, directly, in any of the Cabildo programs to reach a figure that could be around 100,000 people in multiple areas (elderly disabled, minors, women, equality, citizen participation, etc.) .
