“While this Tuesday, at a press conference, Mariano Hernández and Nieves Hernández boasted of the Cabildo’s social policy, we knew the data from Cáritas on the existence of more than 400 families living in extreme poverty and 130 homeless people in La Palma. Precisely, the Caritas Mobile Street Care Unit (UMAC) project for homeless people is one of those that has been left without help from the Cabildo because the president and the councilor have taken away their direct subsidy, forcing them to compete with the rest of social entities to access aid “, says CC in a press release.
“The NGOs that pay attention on La Palma to people with disabilities, children with special needs and people in vulnerable situations still do not receive, to date, the money that the Cabildo contributed each year so that they could pay their workers and pay their services “, he assures.
“This Wednesday, President Mariano Hernández and Minister Nieves Hernández boasted of a historic agreement with the Canary Islands Government, but the reality is that the agreement has been operating since 2018. It was historic, but 3 years ago, when the Canary Islands Government Fernando Clavijo started it ”, points out the counselor of CC Ángeles Fernández.
“Here, the only historical thing in the Cabildo Social Services is the abandonment and economic asphyxia of social entities,” he adds.
“If the president and the counselor really bet on social policies and helping people, they would stop taking so many photos and would dedicate themselves to working to pay once the aid to the 28 groups that develop some thirty social projects in the island to care for children with special needs, people with hearing disabilities, families of Alzheimer’s patients, people with mental health problems, women with breast cancer, victims of gender violence, homeless people and different groups of people with disabilities or in a situation of vulnerability “, he emphasizes.
“If they really cared about people, they would not have charged something that was historical: the Cabildo’s social policy of 20 years of direct and firm support to these entities that, to this day, have not received their aid for Mariano Hernández and Nieves Hernández’s determination to end direct subsidies ”, claims Ángeles Fernández. “In addition, they have broken their word that the call for grants for competitive competition would be resolved in January and we are already in June,” he concludes.
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