UPDATE: 12/04/2021; 11:06:26 AM
As you know this volcanic disaster began on September 19, 2021. So, for 70 days the helpless victims who lost their homes, their vehicles, their jobs and everything else they owned have been forced to find a way to survive. With the winter rainy season settling in and no sign of relief from the onslaught of the volcano and it’s accompanying earthquakes, landslides, poisonous gases and ash, they are at the end of their rope.
For months now they have been crying out for relief that does not come. It seems their government has all kinds of money for scientific investigation of the events and for accommodating and promoting tourism as well as planning for restructuring and building a NEW La Palma. However, they seem to have no concern what so ever for the folks who have been victimized, traumatized and even terrorized throughout the life of this volcanic disaster.
There has been a concerted effort to cover up the truth regarding the destructive properties of this volcanic activity. They have lied about the number of earthquakes and their magnitude, they have lied about the number of people evacuated, they have lied about the number buildings destroyed, the number of jobs lost, then number of people receiving assistance, the kind of assistance they are receiving and where the millions of dollars allocated by the government and donated by the public have gone.
I hope you have learned by now that governments and organized charities CANNOT BE TRUSTED. DO NOT SEND YOUR MONEY TO THEM. Be very sure when you do make donations that the money does not end up in the hands of the RED Cross or government entities or any Organized Charity. Give your money where you KNOW it will go directly to the people in need.
I am sure that everyone who sent money or donated material goods did so believing that it would go immediately to those who were suffering and iUPDATEn great need. NOT!!! The people of La Palma are still waiting for the bureaucracy to decide if any of the individuals who lost EVERYTHING to this Volcanic Disaster are worthy to receive any pitence they might be willing to release out of all the millions collected. Meanwhile these poor folks have nothing and no way to change their situation.
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UPDATE: 12/04/2021; 2:27:14 AM
UPDATE: 12/02/2021; 2:24:57 PM
UPDATE: 11/30/2021; 8:05:19 AM
The residents of #LaPalma receive aid with a dropper and we keep the squatters-delinquents with everyone’s taxes.
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don’t have the balls to help your citizens, send eggs
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Los Llanos begins to distribute funds from donations among its neighbors
The amount of aid ranges between 1,000 and 4,000 euros, depending on the members of the family unit
The Los Llanos de Aridane City Council has begun to pay the aid received through donations to the families affected by the volcano, whose amounts range between 1,000 and 4,000 euros, depending on the number of members that comprise them.
In total, there are 1,786,445.80 euros collected in this way, which will allow these families to cover their basic needs. The first transfers have already been made and on Monday they will be in the accounts of the victims, detail sources from the Los Llanos City Council.
To facilitate the processing for citizens and that they did not have to submit documentation again, it was decided to use the data from the single registry, which has been provided by the Government of the Canary Islands this Wednesday and the first aid has already been decreed and paid, continuing the week next the next remittances.
From the City Council it is reported that even if they are donations, the administration has the obligation to distribute the aid with “a transparent procedure”, where all affected residents have the same opportunities to access the donated funds, and that the entire money collected goes directly to the accounts of the victims.
Finally, the local corporation appreciates, once again, “the wave of solidarity” received during these months since the volcanic crisis began.
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all my love for families who have lost everything
More images of the eruption from Tacande this afternoon / More images of the
eruption this afternoon
Más imágenes de la erupción desde Tacande esta tarde / More images of the eruption this afternoon pic.twitter.com/TPxXCN94Nn
— INVOLCAN (@involcan) November 27, 2021
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Below is a look at the barracks where the first evacuees were taken in September. I thought you would like to see what it looks like. These are old photos, the barracks is on a cliff near the airport and away from access to restaurants, shops or groceries.
The Cabildo de La Palma and the General Directorate of the General State Administration on the Island celebrate this Tuesday, April 17, at 12:00 hours, an act of recognition of the El Fuerte barracks as a token of “gratitude and affection for the continuous collaboration with La Palma ”, they point out from the Cabildo.
The event will be attended by the president of the Cabildo, Anselmo Pestan; the mayor of Santa Cruz de La Palma, Sergio Matos ,; the insular director of the General State Administration in La Palma, Miguel Ángel Morcuende; the military commander of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and head of the 5th general sub-inspection of the Army, José Antonio Jarne San Martín, and the captain of the El Fuerte barracks , Fernando Hernández Oliva.
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The Queen and King did a publicity visit to the barracks where the evacuees were supposedly to find safe shelter. However, there was only room enough for 1,000 people to be housed there. Where are the other 5,000? Take a look at the photos, do you even see 1,000 people?
Queen Letizia and King Felipe of Spain fly to La Palma to meet evacuees sheltering at a military barracks after their homes were swallowed by lava
- The Spanish royals met residents at the El Fuerte building in Brena Baja village
- La Palma volcano continues to spew lava after Mount Cumbre Vieja erupted
- Some 6,000 have been evacuated from homes on La Palma since Sunday
Queen Letizia and King Felipe of Spain flew to La Palma to meet locals who were evacuated after a volcanic eruption swallowed hundreds of homes.
The Spanish royals chatted with some of the 6,000 people who were evacuated from hotels and houses on the island and have since been placed at the El Fuerte military barracks in Brena Baja village.
Letizia, 49, was shocked as she discussed the trauma with the residents and visitors.
The El Fuerte barracks are being used by Spanish authorities to support their response to the volcanic eruption and later the royals will visit the La Palma council headquarters.
Letizia was seen waving to royal fans ahead of the visit, where she was seen deep in conversation with victims and viewed photographs of the destruction caused by the volcanic eruption.
Queen Letizia and King Felipe were swarmed by reporters as they offered statements during their visit to the area
Queen Letizia could be seen leaning in to comfort a woman affected by the eruption of the Cumbre Vieja volcano
King Felipe placed his hand on the arm of one woman as she cried to him after the volcano eruption
Letizia and Felipe, 53, met with some of the Guardia Civil involved in the operation and thanked members of the Spanish emergency rescue service for their work in the evacuation.
Today, locals have been warned to wash their vegetables and clothes to avoid ingesting the ash, as the eruption shows no sign of slowing down five days after it started.
A river of lava spewed from the crater is still inching its way towards the ocean, burning up homes and farms in its path.
Meanwhile effects are also being felt further afield, with a large plume of sulphur dioxide gas due to blow into Europe today, possibly falling as acid rain.
The Spanish royals chatted with some of the 6,000 people who were evacuated from hotels and houses on the island
Letizia was seen waving to royal fans upon their arrival to Santa Cruz de La Palma ahead of the visit today
The Spanish royals were seen deep in conversation with victims and viewed photographs of the destruction caused by the volcanic eruption
The same cloud will reach the UK by Sunday, though observers say by that point the chances of it affecting the weather will be ‘very small.’
Some 350 buildings and 410 acres have already been swallowed up by the lava in La Palma, with officials warning 1,000 homes and 1,000 acres are still at risk.
Angel Víctor Torres, the president of La Palma island, warned the final bill for damages is likely to exceed £340million.
Scientists monitoring the lava flow on land warned it might never reach the sea – having previously forecast it to do so on Tuesday – and may instead pool on land, destroying more homes and farmland.
Spanish King Felipe and Queen Letizia met with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez who flew in from New York for the visit
Letizia and Felipe chatted with victims of the volcanic eruption, which began on Sunday, about their experiences
The Spanish royals are pictured speaking to a man who was evacuated from his home from window at the El Fuerte barracks
Sunday’s eruption took place on a ridge known as Cumbre Vieja, which is notorious as an area of high volcanic activity and has played host to every eruption on the island since the 1600s.
It began around 3pm when a cluster of earthquakes split the ground in an area known as Cabeza de Vaca on the western slope of the volcanic ridge as it descends to the coast, with three fissures spewing out lava.
As of yesterday, 6,000 of the island’s 80,000 inhabitants have so-far been evacuated from their homes, with 35,000 under emergency warning orders.
The lava stream is also threatening vast areas of farmland that crews can do little to save, with La Vanguardia reporting that some 1,000 acres could be destroyed by the time the eruption finishes – which volcanologists say may not happen for several weeks or months.
Letizia and Felipe, 53, thanked members of the Spanish emergency rescue service for their work in the evacuation
The Spanish royals are seen chatting with the emergency services members who helped in the evacuation due to the volcanic eruption
The Spanish royals also met with some of the Guardia Civil involved in the operation this afternoon
La Palma is said to be at potential risk of undergoing a large landslide which could cause a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The El Fuerte barracks on La Palma: from hosting 20 soldiers to receiving more than a thousand people
10/11/2021, 8:26:09 AM
The El Fuerte barracks, perched on one of the many cliffs on La Palma, is usually very empty.
Volcano The areas devastated by the Cumbre Vieja already exceed those of the eruption of 1949
The El Fuerte barracks , perched on one of the many cliffs on La Palma , is usually very empty. So much so that only 20 soldiers live in it continuously , and considering that they take three shifts for surveillance and maintenance, it must be difficult to find more than 12 people at the same time.
That was the situation of this immense Army complex since 2014, when it was decided that it would not continue to be a training center for some 700 soldiers.
However, like the magma underground, The Fort was only asleep, waiting.
In fact, that is your role: to be prepared in case you need to host large numbers of people.
Brigadier General Fernando Morón, who is the Deputy Inspector General of the Army in the Canary Islands, recounts how in just a couple of days this barracks of buildings and white walls became the first place to take evacuees from Cumbre Vieja.
Now, despite the fact that the evacuees who have not found another solution are already in the Princess hotel in Fuencaliente , the barracks continues to be used, because it welcomes all members of the UME (Unidad Militar de Emergencia).
The rest of the Army components that have come to reinforce the personnel on La Palma and some of the emergency services from other areas are also staying there.
«The role of this barracks continues to be very important because the UME and the rest of the people who work in the emergency and are here can forget about food, refueling vehicles, having a place to sleep or washing clothes stained with ash. . it is very important for them to focus only on the work they have been doing, “Morón said.
Brigadier General Fernando Morón, in command of the barracks. ALBERTO DI LOLLI
“The Fort had the capacity to accommodate a thousand people, so the week before the eruption, during the seismic swarm, the Canarian Government asked the Ministry of Defense to use the barracks for evacuees,” continues the general.
They began to look for all the resources to make the barracks work at full capacity, because it was not known how many evacuees would arrive.
In addition to beds and food, a kind of “hospital extension” had to be set up so that dependent people were well cared for, Morón says.
From the beginning, the barracks was proposed as the last solution for those who had no other alternative, because the experts thought that people would always be better off in the homes of relatives or friends.
In the first moment we had 46 dependents and more than 200 who had no other alternative.
Some slept one night while looking for something else, others stayed for a week … », he adds.
Between the Red Cross and the Canarian Health Service, a protocol was activated for all those who entered: take the affiliation data of those who arrived and give them a bracelet with their name;
PCR test and medical triage for status.
“We got to set up 1,000 beds,” says Morón, “and at the peak of occupancy we had just over 400 people housed, coinciding with the arrival of the UME.
Shortly after, the Canarian authorities immediately referred the evacuees to hotels ”.
It is logical to think that in the rooms of a hotel like the Princess one lives more comfortably than within the walls of this barracks near the airport.
But even if it was only during the first week of the eruption, the general and his companions are convinced that everyone who passed through there was good to be together to overcome the shock.
Do not forget that many people lost everything in a very short time, and that living with neighbors, acquaintances or relatives gave them some psychological help.
Some pavilions where you sleep came to have 100 beds, but despite everything it was possible to keep distances and maintain a little privacy.
When it was seen that the eruption did not stop immediately, the barracks continued to be reinforced with other more Spartan materials, such as folding beds in the gym or a camp in what is now the firing range.
All of this was not needed: “We simply assembled it in anticipation of it being necessary.
When we began to deploy the tents, many people were scared believing that many more evacuees were arriving, but it was not like that.
We just wanted to be prepared, and also in case more arrived, we would have slept in the tents, not the evacuees, ”explains Morón.
The tents lasted a week, because ash began to rain on the capital and the airport and they were dismantled in trucks to prevent their deterioration and to be able to deploy them as Red Cross aid posts if necessary, says the general: «It may seem strange But for us this operation was a success even though the tents were not used, because we already know that in one day we can set them up and in another we can take them apart if necessary.
This Operation Cumbre Vieja, as they have called it, is not yet known how long it will last, but what is certain is that at least 1,000 people have a place to stay if necessary.
SO, at most there were only 400 evacuees housed at the Barracks. 200 of those had absolutely no where else to go, but all were told to leave to make room for the military and emergency workers after only a week!
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There have been repeated visits from Politicians, multiple meetings to discuss aid, ongoing fund raising and yet the people have not seen any kind of relief. All they get is PROMISES.
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As Spain pledges more La Palma aid, some islanders ask: where’s the cash?
LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) – Spain will provide whatever is necessary for La Palma to recover from the destruction wrought by weeks of volcanic eruptions, its prime minster said on Thursday, as some residents said financial aid had been slow to arrive.
Visiting on Thursday, Pedro Sanchez said financial assistance for housing would be tax-exempt and that taxes on air travel to and from the island, part of the Canaries archipelo off northwest Africa, would be subsidised for a year.
“We are not going to spare any resource, energy or personnel to tackle the reconstruction tasks,” he said. “The Spanish government is providing all possible resources to ensure the wellbeing, serenity and safety of La Palma residents.”
Lava has destroyed more than 2,000 properties on the island since the Cumbre Vieja volcano began erupting in mid-September and thousands more have fled their homes as a precaution, prompting the government last month to pledge 225 million euros ($260 million) in aid.
Some 21 million euros of that has been disbursed and Sanchez said his administration would this week transfer a further 18.8 million euros for the agriculture and fishing industries and 5 million euros to tackle the “social aspect” of the crisis.
But in Los Llanos de Aridane, the closest town to the lava flow, some expressed frustration that they had yet to receive any of the promised cash.
“I want to believe (the aid is coming) but time is passing by and we see nothing,” said Oscar San Luis outside the local notary’s office, where he was waiting to file paperwork to apply for compensation.
“I remain hopeful. If you don’t have hope what are you doing with your life?” said the 57-year old, who lost several holiday properties and his avocado plantation to the eruption.
The Canarian regional government said it had hired 30 people to verify claims lodged in a register for compensation.
Speaking shortly after Sanchez’s address, Carlos Cordero Gonzalez, who runs a clothes shop in Los Llanos, said it was time for action as well as words.
“Now (the Prime Minister) just needs to say that the money is going to be sent directly to businesses and residents... I hope next week we have the funds in our accounts.”
($1 = 0.8678 euros)
(Writing by Nathan Allen; editing by John Stonestreet)
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La Palma volcano: No sign of government aid for families beset by ‘terrible depression’ as ash buries villages
Families on the Spanish island are still waiting for financial support more than six weeks after the volcano erupted and destroyed more than 2,200 buildings
Nikki Batley and her family have not received any government aid since losing their home in La Palma following the volcanic eruption six weeks ago (Photo: Nikki Batley)
More than a month since a volcanic eruption uprooted the lives of islanders in La Palma, thousands of families are still waiting for financial aid after losing jobs, homes and possessions.
The Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma, one of Spain’s Canary Islands off northwest Africa and home to around 85,000 people, has been spewing lava, ash and gases for more than six weeks.
Since then, some families out of work have been struggling to get by, while tremors, falling ash and poor air quality continues to disrupt their lives, causing schools to shut intermittently and flights to be cancelled.
A house covered by ash on the Canary island of La Palma (Photo: Emilio Morenatti/AP)
Speaking this week, she said: “Since then the lava took our house, and not just the house but everybody’s houses around us – our neighbour’s, the pharmacy, the school next door to us, the shops, the church, the plaza. It’s a lot of damage.
“It’s like a torture everyday, somebody else losing something. A home, a piece of land, a business. And after you’ve lost your own place, it’s so painful to go through and then you relive it again, and again, and again through all your family, your friends and your neighbours who are all living close by.”
Nikki Batley with her partner Pedro Castro Ramos and their son John Castro Batley, who have lost their home in La Palma following the volcanic eruption (Photo: Nikki Batley)
Ms Batley said falling ash has created “a black sandy beach outside”, adding: “It’s on every single road, park, tree and rooftop.
“The earthquakes are a worry, they have been quite strong. It shakes the buildings, and you don’t know if it’s going to be a bigger one than the last.”
She, her partner Pedro Castro Ramos and their 11-year-old son John Castro Batley are renting a small one-bedroom flat in Los Llanos de Aridane, taking turns sleeping on a mattress on the floor.
Mr Ramos works on waterproofing roofs while Ms Blatley teaches English at an educational centre, but both are temporarily out of work and have no other sources of income.
The only financial help they have received is a €400 voucher from the Red Cross charity and they are paying their rent through donations raised on a Go Fund Me crowdfunding page.
“If it wasn’t for that we’d be in a mess,” said Ms Batley. “We haven’t had any help yet (from authorities). There’s all these donations and money coming into the government to help the people but we are not seeing it yet.”
Despite millions being donated to the island to help with recovery, Ms Batley said she has to reregister for financial support from the government.
“We did it a month ago, and for some reason they messed it up, over a thousand people have to register again that they have been affected by the volcano,” she said.
“Everyone is up in arms about that, because we’re waiting for help and not getting help.”
More than 7,000 people have been evacuated from their homes due to the threat from the rivers of lava, as molten rock covered more than 2,400 acres of land and destroyed more than 2,200 homes and buildings.
The effects of the volcanic eruption is also being felt in other parts of the island.
Alison Jones, originally from Swansea, who runs a retreat in the west of the island, has been rescuing pets and farm animals that families were unable to take with them when they had to evacuate their homes with little notice.
The 57-year-old said people are unable to return to affected areas to retrieve belongings without a police escort, and journeys that would normally take around 40 minutes now take up to six hours as people have to drive around the lava flow.
“You’re driving through five centimetres of ash on the road and the car is jumping around and sliding, oh my goodness it’s really scary,” she said.
“Now the problem is we clean the ash away and the next day it could just all be back again.”
She and volunteers are rescuing animals and taking them to shelters. Ms Jones has more than 60 chickens, seven dogs, three cats and two guinea pigs staying at her retreat.
Ms Jones has set up a crowdfunding page to cover the costs of relocating the animals and to also help evacuees while they wait for government aid.
A tearful Ms Jones described how the island was going through “a terrible depression and mass grieving”, and some of the community spirit that pulled people together has slowly ebbed.
“The communities are broken. In the beginning everyone was really pulling together in solidarity and everybody got relatives and friends and squeezed into houses, we’re still squeezed,” she said.
“Apart from the physical loss there’s the emotional loss of not just their houses but their community, a lot of people lost work.”
However, she praised the efforts made by people to help one another. “The volcano exploded and has eaten a lot of houses but also made an explosion of solidarity and generosity from all over the world.”
Theresa Davis, an author from south London who now lives in the northern town of Franceses, told i that travel out of the island has been made more difficult due to the airport being closed intermittently.
Ms Davis has to go to hospital on the nearby island of Tenerife once or twice a year. A hospital visit now requires a ferry journey and overnight hotel stay, whereas before she would have flown over and back on the same day.
“This required me to take two days off work where normally it would have been only one,” she added.
“Ash is falling on almost the whole island due to the current weather patterns, some areas heavier than others.
“I was in Los Llanos – one of the worst affected areas – to do some shopping and the ashfall was quite drastic and it made breathing difficult.”
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Relief funds slow to arrive on La Palma
DW – The Spanish government had pledged over €250 million to help the island’s inhabitants and finance new houses, infrastructure and compensation payments for businesses. But the funds have been slow to arrive.
So far, the regional government has been able to invest only a fraction of the promised money, for example, in housing for evacuees or to provide them with psychological support. Some funds have also gone into setting up new irrigation systems for some banana plantations that are cut off from the water supply.
However, many of the island’s residents complain that they have received hardly any of the financial aid so far because its distribution has been excessively bureaucratic.
Meanwhile, Spain is still dragging its heels on seeking funds from the EU disaster management mechanism.
Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
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About 70 families of fishermen from the Nuestra Señora del Carmen Brotherhood begin to be on the edge while they wait for aid
The fishermen of Tazacorte have not been able to go out to fish for two months. A situation that will not improve in the short term after the new strip has forced to expand the exclusion perimeter.
From the Nuestra Señora del Carmen Brotherhood , they recognize that, even if they were allowed to leave, it would not compensate them either. The restaurants in the area do not buy and their main customers were in the areas affected by the volcanic eruption, such as the neighborhoods of Todoque or La Laguna.
A situation that begins to put the 70 families that lived in this brotherhood to the limit . Meanwhile, they continue to wait for aid.
They assure that they have to continue paying Social Security and there are fishermen who are displaced and have to pay rents as well, so the situation is increasingly worrying.
This Tuesday, the new fajana, which has been formed closer to the Port of Tazacorte, has continued to expand with the contribution of a greater amount of lava that has fallen into the sea in the same area.
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caritastenerife.org/campana-de-eme #EveryGestureCcount #MasFuertesQueElVolcan
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 on Sunday, September 19.
To that end, the entity has enabled the current account ES02 2100 6722 6122 0073 3169 (SWIFT / BIC code: CAIXESBBXXX) to direct emergency aid to people affected by this natural catastrophe that our brothers and sisters in La Beautiful island.
Similarly, contributions can also be made through the code 03762 of the BIZUM system , the banking application that we can download on our mobile phones.
It should be noted that 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, Tazacorte and Los Llanos de Aridane.
315 hectares of crops affected
900 million euros in damages
7,000 people affected (There are at least 8,000 that have already been reported and surely many more since the events of the last few days.)
2,800 buildings affected 2651 HOUSES were destroyed!
77 kms. of affected roads
Three affected municipalities (El Paso, Los Llanos and Tazacorte)
Caritas Response
The Caritas network, through Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife, in addition to collaborating with local authorities to cover the basic needs of the emergency, is already working on the design and planning of actions that will be implemented in the medium and long term in the Island.
Temporary housing alternatives for evacuees until they can receive or acquire a new home
Coverage of basic needs (food, clothing, hygiene products, etc.) through solidarity bank cards and supermarket cards; delivery of masks and protective glasses
Conditioning of parish spaces for people who have lost their homes or who have had to be evicted; rental aid for victims of the volcano
Advice on employment matters for those people who have seen their traditional livelihoods destroyed or seriously affected, or who have been affected by the collateral economic crisis that affects the Island
Psychosocial and legal care for affected people by specialized technical personnel, in coordination with other municipal and island services
EVERY GESTURE COUNTS. Donate now
through these channels
Account: ES02 2100 6722 6122 0073 3169
BIZUM: 03762
Updated November 26, 2021
Press releases on the Emergency and Solidarity Island of La Palma
- Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife has already directly cared for some 120 people affected by the La Palma volcano
- Fran, technician of Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife in La Palma: “I had to put practically my whole life in two suitcases”
- “Thanks to Caritas and the Church I have regained the will to live and I can sleep more peacefully”
- “The immense solidarity generated makes me believe once again in God and in men”
- Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife offers basic care, logistical and housing support to families affected by the volcanic eruption on the island of La Palma
- Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife enables a telephone number for victims of the volcanic eruption in La Palma
- “I have no doubt that together we are going to make the island go forward”
- Emergency and Solidarity Campaign with La Palma
- Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife launches an emergency campaign to channel public solidarity with those affected by the volcanic phenomenon of La Palma
- Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife expresses its solidarity, affection and total support to the population of the island of La Palma
The number of families affected by the La Palma volcano, assisted directly by Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife, continues to increase
Rental aid
In this sense, among the main actions being carried out is responding to the specific needs of these people and families who were evicted from their homes and are currently relocated, such as mattresses, blankets, pillows, personal hygiene products. , as well as punctual support with basic food and clothing needs. Likewise, families have been given financial support to purchase these necessities, with the use of supermarket cards and the implementation of solidarity bank cards.
Also in the area of Housing, with the numerous solidarity contributions received, several parish facilities have been enabled and conditioned by the Diocese of Nivariense, with regard to masonry, painting, equipment, furniture, etc. Cáritas Diocesana de Tenerife, in the same way, has granted emergency aid and rental aid to some families affected by this serious natural tragedy, which directly affects more than 7,000 people and has caused the destruction of more than 1,500 buildings.
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The Island authorities have been keeping the truth hidden and encouraging tourists to come and visit the island regardless of the risks. They have not been adequately warning the tourists or the residents of the dangers of the ash, the CO2, the SO2, the hydrochloric acid, the minute particles of ash in the air and on the ground that can cause a number of medical issues that may not even show up for some time. TOURISM is what is important. Keep that money coming!