A total of 330 families residing in the municipality of Arrecife have applied for school material aid called by the Arrecife City Council for the 2019/2020 academic year. The Social Services Area of the Arrecife City Council has allocated an item of 50,000 euros so that families can cope with the expenses of textbooks, school supplies and uniforms.
The Consortium recalls that, since 2016, these social aids have not been convened to collaborate with low-income families in their expenses for back to school.
With the new government group, which took office on June 15, the Arrecife City Council opened on August 26, with the publication in the BOP, a line of aid aimed at the acquisition of textbooks, school supplies, uniforms and sportswear for the current academic year.
All interested persons had until September 30 to register their application. Procedure that could be done in person at the Social Services offices or at the Town Hall headquarters.
A figure of applicants that has more than tripled compared to 2016
Families with children enrolled in the second cycle of Early Childhood Education, Primary, Secondary and related cycles, as well as Middle and Higher Grade cycles and Baccalaureate, in public centers located in the municipality of Arrecife, or students who, complying with the registration criteria, study in schools outside the municipality of Arrecife, as a result of the proposal of their school report.
The subsidy is processed in a competitive competition regime and the regulatory bases for granting it have been available to interested parties at the electronic headquarters of the Arrecife City Council.
A total of 330 families are eligible for these grants according to their applications, although the beneficiary children may be many more, since the Arrecife call was open to the children of families that met the minimum requirements. According to the Consortium, in 2016, the last edition in which Arrecife helped in this matter, a total of 97 families applied.
