The neighborhood association Charco de la Condesa de Órzola has expressed “total rejection of the installation” of the Center for Immigrant Minors in the Pardelas Park, and have decided that a document will be presented “to the Ministry of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands, and to the Deputy of the Common”. The Association made these decisions at a meeting last Sunday, November 20, which they assure was attended by “the vast majority of the town's residents”,
In said document, the neighborhood association will request the Government of the Canaries “to explain to the population the objective criteria for which they have chosen Órzola as a suitable place for the installation of a minor's center”.
On the other hand, they add that “the lack that this town presents in terms of essential services, leisure and free time activities, capacity to respond to emergency situations and integration capacity, schooling possibilities, and essential public services, among which public transport or emergency health services stand out” will be presented to the Government of the Canary Islands and the Deputy of the Common.
The neighborhood association points out that we must not forget “that near the Pardelas Park facilities is the Cantería Beach, classified as a dangerous beach in which there have been many drowning deaths”. They also add that the type of land where the facilities are intended to be located “is land for agricultural protection”.
In this way, the neighborhood association wants to request the Government of the Canary Islands through said document “to assess the possibility of changing the location of the aforementioned minor's center”, and that otherwise, “the best interests of the minor will be harmed, by not having possibilities of integration into the host society”. In addition, they add that “the life of some of the minors housed in the center may be at risk at any given time”, since they maintain that an ambulance “takes approximately one hour to arrive”.