The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote proposes that the services of “La RED” be resumed and reactivated, an island system of centers and services for leisure and free time “aimed at minors to avoid marginalization.”
“It is a project that is completely abandoned today by the government group of Dolores Corujo, and that it extends to all the neighborhoods of the capital," explain the nationalists.
Among the objectives of this RED, according to CC, was “to promote coexistence and a sense of belonging, encourage intergenerational solidarity and deploy processes of creation and cultural learning through the development of integrated programs of leisure and free time activities, the implementation of accessibility and accompaniment programs for minors and families”.
“We started in Argana because it is the neighborhood with the highest rates of marginalization risk, but that project was intended to be the embryo of something much more ambitious,” recalls the deputy spokesperson for the nationalists, Pedro San Ginés, emphasizing that “this project to integrate minors at risk of social exclusion was 100% financed by the Cabildo of Lanzarote.”
In fact, the nationalists point out that both 'La RED' itself, which had its headquarters in a modern building acquired for this purpose in Argana Alta, “today closed”, as well as the rest of the Argana projects, “in 2019 a total of 300 families from the neighborhood benefited.”
From CC they point out that in that building it was precisely where the integration program was carried out, by a pedagogue, through leisure activities, free time and accompaniment of minors and families, of which about 50 minors were users. “But today it has disappeared, just as other actions included in the project and which had great acceptance during the CC stage in the government have completely disappeared,” they add.
Thus, as San Ginés explains, the current government group “has dispensed with the community development work carried out by a sociologist at the CEO Argana, from which 36 minors benefited; just as the 'Arrecife Camina' dynamization work, developed by two technicians at the Argana Sociocultural center and in which 25 minors participated, has also been dispensed with.”
“In other words, of everything that was already fully operational, the current government of the Cabildo only maintained 'Barrios Orquestados' (a purely citizen initiative that arises from a group of music teachers in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and which has been the subject of even international recognition) and gave continuity to the prevention program for social exclusion of 'La Vida es Zuaina', “which already existed for years and of which we do not claim more merit than supporting it”, explains San Ginés.
Faced with this situation, the nationalists consider it “lamentable” that “neither Corujo nor her government are aware of the social fabric that the project served in Argana”, and assure that “we are not worried about them hanging the medal of Barrios Orquestados or the RED itself.
“What's more, we are glad that the former continues, but we are concerned that they do not resume the latter, giving continuity and promoting all the social projects that were functioning during the previous term, now more necessary than ever,” concludes San Ginés.
