The Canary Foundation Flora Acoge has announced that its current economic situation "is not the most appropriate." "One more year we suffer and live months of uncertainty, this is because public subsidies do not arrive in the necessary times and forms," the association denounces.
In a statement signed by its president, María Dolores Villlaba, it is explained that Flora Acoge directs its work towards people in situations of social exclusion or likely to be so. "The different professionals offer their support, accompaniment and guidance, with the aim of establishing individualized work plans and monitoring them, with the aim that the people served achieve an improvement in their situation, not only in the short term, but also in the medium-long term, and thus favor the improvement of their quality of life, trying to ensure that they do not depend on institutions or entities," she details.
In this regard, she says that she has been "dialoguing and raising awareness among political agents for years, in order to find a viable option that favors the continuity of the projects and the quality of the services" they carry out", pointing out that "for this it is necessary and essential to have the economic resources, since without them the planned activities suffer limitations or cannot even be maintained".
"The fact of not receiving the subsidies requested and granted until the last quarter of the year makes the work to be carried out difficult, causing limitations when accessing products and food, pharmacy aid and pharmacological treatments (necessary for the health of the people served), delay in the payment of payrolls (generating job insecurity, insecurity, uncertainty and instability in professionals), impossibility of replacing jobs (vacations, sick leave), keeping up to date with the payment of supplies and repairs of spaces (breakdowns, maintenance of centers), etc.", she explains.
The president of Flora Acoge affirms that all this "constantly forces them to assess the needs and priorities in which to manage the economic resources" that they are generating "either by their own income (activities or external collaborations) or by requesting a loan from banking entities (which also generates interest), resulting in the services provided not maintaining the planned quality and continuity".
Thus, she considers that "putting in value the social work that the Foundation and many other entities carry out on the island of Lanzarote" is "fundamental in order to ensure that these situations are not maintained and repeated over the years; and that public institutions, through political agents, devise and agree on mechanisms that favor agility in administrative procedures". "Thus, the entities will be able to favor the continuity and quality in the execution and development of the projects," she concludes.
