The Cabildo and the town councils of the seven municipalities of the Island signed an agreement by which they will subsidize with just over 268,000 euros to the Association of Oncohematological Families (AFOL) and the Group for the Defense of the Psychic Patient El Cribo. These aids will allow the two NGOs to develop various social programs in each of the areas to which they are dedicated.
The Association of Oncohematological Families will receive more than 40,000 euros, of which just over 26,500 will be contributed by the First Institution and the rest by the town councils. In this sense, the most outstanding aspect is that this year the Arrecife City Council has joined the agreement with a direct investment of 9,000 euros for AFOL.
Aid for citizensThe duration of the agreement is one year, although, as long as the parties agree, it will be extended until 2009. The agreement will allow the Association to develop a program of psychosocial integration to support patients and families suffering from this disease. The money will be used to pay the social worker and the psychologist that AFOL has hired in order to help citizens who suffer from this disease and their families. A job that, according to the president of AFOL, Carmen Arrocha, serves to contribute to increasing the life expectancy of these patients with decent levels for both them and their families.
Mental patients
In the case of the Group for the Defense of the Psychic Patient El Cribo, the subsidy is more than 228,000 euros. In this case, the economic budget is divided between several entities. The Cabildo makes the largest contribution with just over 100,000 euros. In this case, it pays about 45,000 euros with the signing of the agreement while the rest will be invested in the last quarter of the previous year's justification exercise.
For this, El Cribo will have to present the invoice that specifies the amount of items covered by the agreement as well as the payrolls or contracts of its workers. The other entities that contribute to this agreement are the General Directorate of Health with more than 72,000 euros, the General Directorate of Social Services with about 34,000 euros, the Arrecife City Council that will invest just over 9,600 euros and the Spanish Confederation of Family Groups and People with Mental Illness that intervenes with about 6,000 euros.
Finally, the General Directorate of Social Services contributes more than 60,500 euros for the hiring of monitors who will carry out their work in the different workshops of the program and in the socio-health plan in the area of disability.
With this aid, El Cribo will carry out a mental health program in Lanzarote. In this way, it is about ensuring that psychiatric patients have a coherent activity within a plan that is adjusted to each of them individually.
