The Cabildo of Lanzarote has approved in an extraordinary Plenary held this Friday, September 2, the incorporation of 14,199,571 million euros of remnants, which will be allocated to subsidies of a marked social nature, with the aim of alleviating the delicate situation that is currently being experienced.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, highlighted "the effort made by the Government group to incorporate these funds into the budgets and try to respond to the demands and needs of the most vulnerable groups on the island".
“A sum like this has been necessary to cover a large part of the sectors that are suffering the consequences of the crisis and, through collaboration with entities, associations and local public administrations, we will be able to articulate mechanisms that help these groups”, Corujo pointed out.
For her part, the Minister of Finance of the Island Council, Rosa Callero, detailed that “the subsidies that are approved range from collaboration with the town councils to provide their social emergency funds to subsidies for associations dedicated to preventing and combating social exclusion”. "There is also aid aimed at promoting employment or promoting entrepreneurship, in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce and employers' organizations, and subsidies aimed at the primary sector, transport, leisure and sports, sustainability and the environment", she adds.
From the Cabildo they add that they also support "entities related to diseases that generate a high incidence in family and social life to improve their quality of life beyond health treatments." Likewise, subsidies are also included "to support migrant associations that work in integration and guidance to working life," and subsidies "to support the dependency and disability sector in terms of the development of complementary rehabilitation and integration activities."
“We are taking this measure at a time when the intervention of the island government is, if possible, more essential due to the need to add our effort to that of other administrations to try to alleviate the effects of the blow that the war in Ukraine has caused, arriving when we had not yet fully recovered from the economic effects of the pandemic”, concluded the councilor.