She can't take it anymore. She fears that her 3-month-old baby will be taken away due to lack of resources. She has been asking the Arrecife City Council for help for months, but it never arrives. Therefore, Ángeles Corbalán Díaz, a 26-year-old woman from Seville, has decided to "camp" in the City Council to demand that they speed up aid to pay the rent for the house.
The situation of this young woman is very complicated. She is a single mother with a newborn baby and claims that her husband has a restraining order. She takes care of her mother, who has no pension, and she is unemployed. She receives 426 euros in aid and allocates 305 to the rent of her home. "I am left with 120 euros a month and I can't take it anymore," she says desperately.
Her problems began when, according to her, she allegedly began to receive aggression from her ex-husband. "Pregnant, I had to sleep in a park and even in the Local Police station," she says.
Now she has no resources to feed her baby and fears that Social Services will take custody. "I can't leave my son, they can't take him away from me, but I'm scared," she says.
Without help
After several meetings that, she says, she has held with the mayor, Cándido Reguera, and with the councilor for Social Services, Emilia Perdomo, she still has not obtained the aid, consisting of 150 euros per month for six months to face the payment of half of the rent of the apartment. "Emilia tells me that she is going to give me the aid, that she is going to send a box of food to my house from March 1st and I have not received anything," she insists.
At the moment, Ángeles maintains that she has been forced to collect garbage from the containers to be able to eat. "The other day I found a bag full of cables and sold them for six euros in a scrap yard," she says.
"They are taking my life away. I am going to put myself with a blanket in the City Council so that they help me, because in the end I am going to have to become a prostitute and give my son away, poor thing, with only three months," she laments.
At 11:30 this Tuesday, Ángeles has entered the City Council and has assured that she will not leave there until they give her a solution. "If the police have to throw me out, let them throw me out", says this woman, who has left her baby with her mother to be able to carry out the protest alone. Ángeles has placed herself at the doors of the mayor's office to demand that the mayor help her to "survive".
However, hours later, around 2:30 p.m., a local police officer asked her to accompany him outside, since at that time the City Council closes its doors to the public.
"I'm going to stay here outside to sleep. Until the mayor gives me a solution, I intend to stay here. Cándido has told me to go to Social Services tomorrow, but if they don't solve anything for me later, what do I do? I'm staying here," says this woman, who is willing to lie down with her blanket at the doors of the capital's Consistory until she gets a solution.
