The Red Cross has made a national appeal to mobilize volunteers from the organization in different parts of the country, especially Andalusia, to address the migratory rebound that the Canary Islands are experiencing in recent months, as they have admitted that their muscle can no longer give more of itself in the islands.
According to the regional head of emergency first response of the Red Cross, José Antonio Rodríguez Verona, until now they were moving the volunteers from one island to another if necessary, "but now boats are arriving anywhere on the islands, so we have had to take from the central office muscle," he detailed in statements to Radio Nacional de España (RNE) this Sunday.
Rodríguez Verona has indicated that there is already a call to national volunteering, "especially from the area of Andalusia", since they also have experience in migratory care and "are quite capable of continuing to assist people as dignified as possible when they arrive at the beach".
In statements to the same station, the manager of the Emergency Consortium of Lanzarote, Enrique Espinosa, for his part, has urged the creation of a specific unit to assist migrants arriving on the coasts of the Canary Islands.
"What we cannot do is pull from volunteering when really what is needed are paid professionals to do that work," Espinosa defended.
This does not mean, he clarified, that volunteering is not counted on, but that it should be "on a punctual basis", not in a generalized way, as is happening at the moment.
