SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Sep 22 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife has launched a campaign to channel citizen support and solidarity with the population of the island of La Palma, affected by the effects of the severe volcanic phenomenon that was unleashed last Sunday.
To this end, the entity has enabled the current account ES02 2100 6722 6122 0073 3169 to channel emergency aid to people affected by this natural disaster. Similarly, contributions can also be made through code 03762 of the Bizum system.
Among those affected who have had to be evacuated and who have lost their homes are different Caritas agents from the parish communities of the municipalities of El Paso and Los Llanos de Aridane. In addition, several religious temples, including the parish of San Pío X in Todoque, have been destroyed by lava flows.
Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife articulates its work in two arciprestazgos on the island of La Palma, in Santa Cruz de La Palma and Los Llanos de Aridane. In addition to welcoming and accompanying the most vulnerable families, the Mila project is being developed, for the employability of people in a situation of social exclusion or at risk of suffering from it; and the Mobile Street Care Units project for homeless people. In total, last year 1,300 people were served on the island through the parishes and the different projects and programs developed by the diocesan entity.
In order to closely monitor the evolution of this emergency, Cáritas Tenerife has set up a crisis cabinet in order to identify the most urgent needs of the affected population and to define the most appropriate responses to the evolution in the short and medium term. Of the same.
Likewise, Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife positively values the speed of public administrations when it comes to ensuring the safety of all affected people and guaranteeing the care of those in a situation of greater vulnerability, those who are the center of our action.
In the same way, the organization has wanted to offer its collaboration and total disposition to the social effects caused by this emergency. “We add our efforts and resources to those of the social agents and institutions present in the affected areas and throughout the island, sharing with them the commitment and solidarity that moves us as a Church,” they point out from Caritas.
At the same time, it expresses all its closeness to the victims and sends a message of encouragement to the palm tree population in general and, especially, to the people and families who are being affected by this historical situation of volcanic risk. “Every gesture counts”
