Dori Peñas, councilor of the municipal group of IU-Green has shown its support to the charity group Caritas, which is doing important work to care for families without resources to meet basic needs for food and clothing, among others.
Peñas ensures that, although the welfare work of NGOs, S play an important social role among the neediest people, the truth is that this should not become an excuse for the local regional administration and relax and not meeting their local obligations.
The mayor has referred to the responsibility of municipal social services to meet the growing number of people requiring social assistance to survive, as far down the number of people facing serious difficulties to meet their most basic needs such as food , they are increasing.
"Once you cross the threshold of social exclusion is very difficult to leave without a planned and resourced intervention by the competent bodies" said the council, which has said that his political education in the request that is expand the budget line for aid to basic needs that include the municipal social services in the light of the growing demand, so that all families residing in Lorca in need are met and not overloaded excessively NGOs, S, assuming the council its legal and institutional responsibility.
Similarly, Peñas wanted to banish the false belief that immigrants account for social aid, since 98% of families seeking aid for basic foods are Spanish.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca