The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1842
22 - 28 October 2020
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IN the past week, the Marbella Council has committed to spend €170,000 to help a number of charities in the municipality to continue with their good work and this is just a fraction of the money spent each year to sup port local and national charities and NGOs. It announced that it is to con tinue funding three charities based in San Pedro Alcantara to the tune of €110,000 during the 2020 financial year bringing the total paid to charities in the city to more than €1 million this year. This was confirmed by Marbel la Mayor, Ángeles Muñoz as she signed three collaboration agree ments in the Office of the Mayor of San Pedro and said how pleased she was to be continuing to support these three worthy causes. The Fundatul Tutelar Founda tion will receive €86,000 per year to continue its work to promote employment and the training of people with disabilities, the Asso ciation of Rehabilitated Alcoholics will receive €14,000 and the Prin cipito Association which helps
families with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) will be granted €10,000 per an num. Shortly afterwards it was con firmed that several grants worth more than €60,000 to guarantee the maintenance of the work car ried out in the city by Marbella Volunteer, Crece and Fibromyal gia Marbella (AFIMAR). Mayor Muñoz, signed a num ber of collaboration agreements with these three entities and she explained that for the future, the Council plans to allocate more than €2 million per year to the work carried out by different charitable associations. She stressed the fact that al though income for the Council has shrunk due to the coron avirus pandemic, the city is going to make a budgetary effort, to find the funds to keep supporting these important organisations. Support is desperately needed by these different charities as their ability to raise funds was completely curtailed during the lockdown and even now it is costing them more than ever to
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MAYOR MUÑOZ: Signing the latest agreement.
maintain their facilities due to the new hygiene arrangements hav ing to be introduced due to the pandemic. There is such a diverse range of needs in the municipality that the call for funds will always be enormous. This does not take into ac count the money spent via Social Services in order to help those in danger of social exclusion due to lack of work and the need to feed their families. No council can help every body, but the relationship be tween Marbella and the various local volunteer organisations as well as larger national groups such as the Red Cross and Caritas is important and should not be undervalued.