The candidate of Nueva Canarias Román Rodríguez, made effective last Thursday, May 25 in the afternoon at the Hotel Lancelot in Arrecife his signing of the manifesto of commitment in defense of the Third Sector of the Canary Islands, a signature that has been carried out during a massive meeting in which the representatives of no less than 32 different NGOs from Lanzarote and the rest of the Islands dedicated to care and dependency have participated, who have
applauded the commitment publicly acquired by the Canarians after the celebration of the elections this Sunday. Rodríguez has warned of the importance, in addition, of holding this type of events in non-capital islands as this Thursday has been the case of Lanzarote.
"We must get you used to the fact that all the islands have the same weight and the same prominence," said the vice president and Minister of Finance in office of the Government of the Canary Islands. According to this so-called "Manifesto of Interest for the Third Sector of the Canary Islands. In defense of the policy of care, diversity and full inclusion of vulnerable people", the candidate of the Canarians to the Presidency of the Government certifies his work in the next legislature, like the rest of his political formation, in defense of the following commitments:
They demand dialogue and coordination, timely subsidies and "real" voice and vote. Among the demands of the associations from all the islands, some of their representatives have intervened to "question the delivery times of subsidies by public administrations", they collect. "It cannot be that the economic aid is given to us at the end of the year, since in this way our social work, with which we make up for the shortcomings of the Administration itself, is ultimately being financed by the banking entities," they explained.
Similarly, he has placed "special emphasis" on the need to expedite the procedures to justify these subsidies and to convene competitive concurrence subsidies with more anticipation, as is the case of "aid for the disability and dependency sector". Likewise, directors, technicians and volunteers of the NGOs present at the meeting have emphasized their desire to be "more active" and to have "voice and vote", so that, as highlighted in his speech the Canarian candidate for the Mayor of Teguise, "their contributions are, as they already do in municipalities such as Yaiza, binding when it comes to preparing budgets or conditions for the granting of aid." In this regard, the candidate has assured that "the requests can be channeled and can have a solution."
"It is unacceptable that those who perform this irreplaceable task have to beg for aid and public subsidies," he adds.
"The social concert is possible to stabilize their income, so that they do not have to wait until the end of the year and in the meantime seek bank financing," he said. "After this emotional and heartfelt meeting, which has been worthwhile, we are in a position to guarantee in the Canary Islands a fair treatment to non-governmental organizations because they reach where the public sector does not reach, neither city councils, nor councils nor the Government of the Canary Islands, they do so with a high professionalism, with a very high level of specialization and with an exquisite sensitivity, so they play a strategic function," said Román Rodríguez. At the end of the meeting, he declared that "Canarian society must face in the next decade the aging of an important part of the population."
Therefore, he indicated, "the policies of care and the development of an autonomous and dignified life for our elders must be a fundamental axis of the work of the institutions, together with the protection of other vulnerable sectors, such as children, and the fight against poverty and social exclusion." Rodríguez, like the candidate for Parliament for Lanzarote and La Graciosa, Yoné Carballo, and the candidate for the Presidency of the Cabildo, Óscar Noda, have insisted that "the management of the many economic resources that the Canary Islands has must be "professionalized".
"It cannot be that budgets for a hospital of up to 600 million euros are managed by the handyman on duty," Román Rodríguez concluded in this regard. Nueva Canarias conceives the exercise of politics as a citizen right and duty "that goes beyond the deposit of a ballot in an urn every four years and that must be configured as a continuous public conversation that allows to detect the needs of society, in the first place, and offer answers in favor of the general interest, in the last instance," claimed the national president of the Canarians. "Nueva Canarias understands that public commitments with representative organizations of the country is the best way not only to reinforce and make visible the approaches reflected in the electoral program, but to facilitate its subsequent compliance from the Canarian Government, the councils and the city councils," said the candidate.
Óscar Noda, the current national secretary of Health and Social Rights of Nueva Canarias, Daisy Villalba, who was also in charge of reading the manifesto in defense of the Third Sector, the candidate for Lanzarote and La Graciosa to the Parliament of the Canary Islands, Yoné Caraballo, and the leader of NC in Tenerife Carmen, Nieves Gaspar, also attended the signing of this important manifesto.
In addition, the heads of the seven candidacies with which Nueva Canarias competes in the respective City Councils of the island of Lanzarote and La Graciosa were also present at the event. These were the participants of the Third Sector meeting of the Canary Islands in Arrecife:
- GRAN CANARIA:
1) Adepsi - Natascha García
2) Down Las Palmas - Angel Sosa
3) Association of Disabled People of the South (Adissur)- Francisco Concepción
4) Volunteer Entities- Mónica Santana
5) Association of Deaf People of Las Palmas - Javier Pérez Falcón (+1)
- TENERIFE:
6) Abrigos y Sonrisas - Yone Febles
7) Amate (Breast Cancer) - María Carmen Bonafonte
8) Dispacint - José Luis Concepción (+2)
9) Activoz - Almudena Díaz Cruz
- FUERTEVENTURA:
10) Metastatic Breast Cancer Association - Ana Pérez
11) Association for Diabetes Fuerteventura (Amadi) - Juana Delia Francés
- LANZAROTE:
12) Arena y Laurisilva - (representative in Lanzarote)
13) Km. Por Sonrisa - (representative in Lanzarote)
14) AECC - (representative in Lanzarote)
15) Association of Visual and Hearing Impaired (Adivia) - representative in
16) Asomamen - (representative in Lanzarote)
17) Seniors of La Destila (Mónica Salvatierra)
18) Alanem (Adrián García)
19) Adislan (Mónica Hdez)
20) El Cribo (Rosa María Glez)
21) AFA (Agustina García)
22) Lanzarote TEA (Attenery Rodríguez)
23) APSAL (Antonio Mesa)
24) Flora Acoge (María Dolores Villalba)
25) Adasa Wheelchair Hockey Club (Berta Santana)
26) Gamas (Marta Señal)
27) AFOL (Carmen Arrocha)
28) APUSAS (Fidel Ascensión)
29) Más Familia (Daura Hdez)
30) Creciendo Yaiza (Ligia Molnar)
31) Pequeño Valiente (José Juan Jerez)
32) Lanzabasket – (Oriol Viñol Perdomo)
Román Rodríguez has also held a subsequent meeting with members of the Senior Society of Altavista, in Arrecife, a visit with which the route of the candidate of Nueva Canarias to the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands through Lanzarote concluded last Thursday, May 25, concludes the party.
