The Popular Party of Lanzarote commemorated this March 8 with an act of "homage" to the wives of the sailors, which was held in the Casa del Miedo of Arrecife. "Life testimonies, unforgettable memories, painful absences, many joys, poetry and music were some of the ingredients," the party said in a statement, in which it affirms that the event brought together twenty women and daughters of fishermen.
In the meeting, organized by the Secretariat of Sectoral Policy directed by Dácil Garcias, these women of fishermen from Lanzarote and La Graciosa shared their personal experiences with all the attendees.
"The common denominator of all of them, a life dedicated entirely to the family, to the care of the children, to the house, to the work in the canneries, to the mending of nets... tasks each of them that added hours, days, years until completing a lifetime of work and personal improvement", stressed the president of the Lanzarote Popular Party, Astrid Pérez, during her speech. "So many women of fishermen, with whom this island has an outstanding debt because they were an essential piece and silent protagonists of our recent history in which fishing was the sustenance and an opportunity for the development of the island", said Pérez.
"An example of overcoming for the new generations"
"All of them should be an example of overcoming for the new generations of women and men who today have to build a fully egalitarian future for all. Much progress has been made but we must continue fighting together, both men and women, from a common commitment and an education in equality above political ideas", said the president of the PP.
According to the PP in a statement, "the event was charged with emotion with the testimonies of the wives and daughters who lived in first person the hardships of an era or episodes as painful as the assault on the Cruz del Mar, of which next November marks 40 years". In addition, they explain that the former councilor of Arrecife Roberto Herbón read a poem "that drew the loneliness of the woman in each departure and the fear that their loved ones would not return".
