Cabildo de Tenerife and the Red Cross promote a project to serve 80 Ukrainian families from the north of the island

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Dec. 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The CEO of Citizen Participation and Diversity of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Nauzet Gugliotta, held a meeting with representatives of the Red Cross in charge of executing the ‘Attention to Ukrainian Families’ project on the island, which has just started to assist the women, girls, boys, young people and their families who have arrived in Tenerife after the start of the war.

The meeting took place at the offices of the Red Cross in Puerto de la Cruz, offices from which the different care services will be channeled.

The meeting was also attended by the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Marco González, together with the provincial vice president of the Red Cross, Heliodoro González, the regional technical director, Dácil Hernández, and the provincial coordinator, Rubén González, as well as the technical staff and project 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 “This is the first action of these characteristics carried out by the Red Cross on the islands through a public administration.”

The CEO clarified that the Cabildo has financed the execution of 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 favoring their social integration in the local life”.

In its development, he commented in a note, “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 aid , among other resources, so that they do not lose the dynamics of their studies”.

“We are talking about families that have not left their country by their own decision, but because of the war, whose sons and daughters find themselves with the absence of their usual networks of friends, classmates and family ties and require a specific attention”, indicated Gugliotta, who added that “at the same time, interventions are made with adults, through orientation services, accompaniment, mediation and training in basic personal skills, among other actions”.

The project has just started in the northern region with some 80 Ukrainian families, “although it covers the entire island and there is an adapted transport service to pick up children and young people from the southern region as well.”