María del Río, president of the Sí Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group and deputy for Lanzarote, defended and managed to include in the regional Budgets for 2022 a series of amendments specifically for Lanzarote worth 555,000 euros, thus managing to increase the investment initially planned for the Island.
The largest investment that María del Río has secured for next year on the Island is for the new project of El Jable Rural Park, as 250,000 euros will be allocated by the Vice-Ministry for the Fight against Climate Change and Ecological Transition to promote the inclusion of El Jable in the network of Protected Natural Spaces.
In this way, according to what the deputy for Lanzarote has conveyed to various officials and groups with whom she has met on the island to explain what has been achieved, the legislation that would be applied to the area would prevent a large part of the problems that threaten the environment, since mining and quarrying activity would be subject to the condition of "the conservation of biodiversity and the sustainable use of resources," which will prevent extractive activities from being authorized in the area given the large number of birds that need the ecosystem to nest.
Another important point is that it would be possible to prevent the sporting transit of motor vehicles, which seriously endangers bird nests, crops, small fauna and wild flora, as they would be expressly prohibited by law.
La Escuelita: Lanzarote Rural Entrepreneurship Center, located in Tías, has also obtained, thanks to the impulse of the deputy of Sí Podemos Canarias for Lanzarote, an allocation of 105,000 euros, which will be used to acquire a municipal property of about 300 square meters located near the roundabout at the entrance to the town of Mácher in order to turn it into "a rural entrepreneurship center where the different initiatives that arise within the framework of the REFLOTA cooperative, such as the elaboration of food products derived from the prickly pear, can be accommodated."
In addition to giving a new use to a currently abandoned building that was built in the late 40s of the last century as a school, Del Río recalls that "it is intended to recover its heritage values and that it will once again be the engine of revitalization that it was in the past."
Another amendment of 100,000 euros included by Del Río in the Canary Islands Budgets for next year, which were approved on Tuesday in Parliament, is aimed at the Lanzarote Agricultural Market, since the Sí Podemos Canarias group in Lanzarote considers it necessary to create and launch a space that allows "strengthening the primary sector, promoting our traditional and ecological agriculture and promoting the consumption of local products and food sovereignty."
"All this is part of our project for a change in the productive model, which bets on the primary sector, respect for the environment and the circular economy," says Del Río.
The deputy for Lanzarote also managed to include 50,000 euros, charged to the General Directorate of Social Rights and Immigration, for the Pilot Project of Social Participation and Community Strengthening of Tías, whose objective is to boost and strengthen neighborhood coexistence and social participation of the residents of the municipality.
This amount will also allow the creation of personal development processes based on neighborhood coexistence and education in fundamental values to form a respectful society, which from plurality and diversity, is committed to its environment, offering a stable structure of participation and neighborhood coordination that allows to effectively add the efforts of each and every one of the people around common and shared goals, thus increasing the capacity to respond to local socio-economic problems.
Finally, another 50,000 euros will be allocated to the Social Inclusion Promotion Program that analyzes the socio-economic reality of the most vulnerable population, to detect risk situations and to be able to attend to and prevent psychosocial needs of individuals, families and groups or collectives with greater difficulty within the municipality.
This project also seeks to promote inclusive actions that favor the social cohesion of the community, and to develop actions aimed at meeting the needs of the population, and especially people receiving basic benefits, unemployment subsidies such as the Minimum Basic Income (IMV) or the Canary Islands Insertion Benefit (PCI), the development of social networks and mutual support that contribute to the prevention and resolution of social problems.
