A total of 2519 people were the beneficiaries of Cáritas, during 2017, in the region of La Marina Alta. A figure that represents a decrease of 19% that the solidarity institution attributes to the chronification of the situations of poverty that affect the people served by the entity, which makes them get trapped in realities of exclusion that are becoming more and more complicated. leave, so the same families are served year after year. In this sense, they have explained that 79 percent of the beneficiaries of Cáritas in 2017 were known from previous years.
The beneficiaries of the aid have been mostly single women, young couples with children, and single people. In the region there is still a higher percentage of foreigners who request help, an 64% of the total, most of them women. In the annual report it stands out that an 32% of the applicants were minors.
Projects of Caritas in the Marina Alta
Currently, Cáritas Interparroquial has different projects in progress in the municipalities of the Marina Alta. In Dénia, they have training and employment projects in progress, and two solidarity gardens in Xàbia and Dénia; a commissary -in Benissa, and in Dénia- a solidarity wardrobe to cover the basic needs in food, hygiene and clothing of the families accompanied; as well as a music therapy project at the Pedreguer Hospital for the chronically ill.
Cáritas also has clothing containers located in the parish of San Miguel de Dénia, in Ondara and Gata de Gorgos and clothes collection also in the rest of the parishes of the Marina Alta where you can deposit clothes, footwear and accessories whatever your state. With the donation of clothes, work is generated for people at risk of exclusion through the insertion companies @rropa and Koopera Mediterránea.
Solidarity bank cards
Since this year, the beneficiaries of the aid of Cáritas in Dénia have received solidarity bank cards that allow them to make the purchase in the usual establishments anonymously, and avoid going to the commissary.
In this locality, the beneficiaries were 569, with percentages in terms of profiles, nationality and sex coinciding with the region of La Marina.
Volunteers
Volunteering is a fundamental part for the work of Caritas to be effective in all corners of the Marina Alta. In 2017, a total of 351 people collaborated with the institution. Of all of them, the majority were women.
In addition, he invested a total of 176 749 euros in primary care to cover basic needs of food, housing (supplies, rents, etc.) and medicines, among other aids, to the people he accompanies.
Likewise, the 78 for one hundred of the resources that the entity has come from its own funds through donations, collections and awareness actions. In Dénia 34.031 were the euros destined with an 80% of own funds.
Looking at the future
Cáritas has launched a new strategic plan for the next five years. With this motive, Caritas has announced the commitment of the institution for the accompaniment of people to make their rights effective. In the same way, they propose, for the next few years, to continue to denounce the causes that generate inequality and poverty and maintain their objective to improve processes and transparency.
