The Department of Social and Community Care, Childhood and Family adheres to the Basic Material Assistance Program of the European Social Fund
The new Basic Material Assistance Program aimed at people and families in situations of social exclusion or poverty in the Canary Islands has been launched in Santa Lucía de Tirajana and will replace food bags with wallet cards, which will be delivered this year by the Red Cross. The City Council has accepted this European program that has an investment of 166.689 euros for the municipality of Santa Lucía.
The Councilor for Social and Community Care, Childhood, Family and Subsidies, Saúl Goyes López, highlights that “Santa Lucía de Tirajana adheres to the Basic Material Assistance Program of the European Social Fund+, implying an improvement in the traditional distribution of food. Now the beneficiaries will be able to directly access fresh food and baby food, as well as basic hygiene items, all through a wallet card. In addition, the city council has its own budget item for economic benefits of special need or social emergency.”
The Basic Material Assistance Program is the continuation of the food program of the European Aid Fund for the Most Disadvantaged People (Fead), which in the period 2014-2020 financed the measures of the countries of the European Union by providing food or basic material assistance to the people who needed it most.
Families with dependent minors who live in households whose income per consumption unit is less than 40% of the national median income will be able to access these cards.
Regarding the form of distribution of the wallet cards, it is established that the autonomous communities, through the social services departments of the city councils, will identify the families with dependent minors in a situation of severe poverty, beneficiaries of this aid. , for subsequent referral to the Red Cross, the entity that will be in charge of contacting the families and proceeding to deliver the cards.
"In this way - adds the councilor - the people of the municipality of Santa Lucía de Tirajana receive dignified, personalized attention, and in general, the area's budget items are allocated to those who need them."
