Councilwoman Lorca IU-Green, Worship Peñas, presented this morning to the media motion that will take the next plenary session of January to fight poverty in Lorca, ranked as the third poorest city of Spain according to a recent study.
According Peñas, "We must take a radical turn to the approach of municipal social policy, linked to greater budgetary claim to the regional government to allow a wider margin of maneuver to carry out not only assistential performances, but also other based on the basic principles of social action activities, which are, promotion, rehabilitation and reintegration. "
The council has stressed that his municipal group has met in recent weeks with virtually all tissue NGO of the municipality to publicize their work, their needs, problems and limitations, finding a common problem in almost all of them: the funding and lack of material and human resources to carry out its activities means.
To Peñas, "this issue shows once more the unwillingness of the various councilors of Social Services who have gone through this council, since despite being covering these social institutions specific functions that relieve the government's responsibility, not receive exchange timely consideration, economically asphyxiated living in most cases without opportunities to implement new projects of great social interest. "
In another vein, it has also announced it will present a plea in that city requesting that the building housing the offices of the Municipal School of Music and the headquarters of the Municipal Band, which has not yet been opened, he put the name the illustrious musician Lorca Bartolome Perez Casas.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca