The Tías City Council is executing the project called Unwanted Loneliness in Tías through an integral approach that allows to detect, accompany and empower people, especially the elderly. For this purpose, two technicians have been hired full-time in physical sports amination and two female animators sociocultural.
The Department of Social Welfare and Family, directed by Nicolás Saavedra, consolidates this project and works to promote the creation of spaces for meeting and participation, involving all citizens in the actions to be developed.
Examples of this are the maintenance classes aimed at seniors, which reach about 450 people, the provision of workshops or the recreational activity carried out during the Carnival celebration, with the involvement of a dozen people.
Unwanted loneliness in Tías has an execution period from January 15 to June 30 of this year thanks to a subsidy of 60,000 euros granted by the Ministry of Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Childhood and Families of the Government of the Canary Islands.
Additionally, the Tías City Council is executing, until June 30, 2026, another project which has a nominated grant of 52,126 euros, on this occasion granted by the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
This initiative, called Economic Aid for Social Emergency situations, benefits 30 family units, around 93 people, and focuses on quickly alleviating social emergency cases by streamlining intervention to prevent processes of marginalization and exclusion.