The Mayor of Mijas, Josele González (PSOE), and the Councillor for Social Services, Hipólito Zapico (PSOE), this Monday, took stock of the work carried out by the Mijas Town Hall in social matters over the past year. Both stressed that aid valued at more than 4.7 million euros has been delivered and that these have reached almost 3,100 families in the municipality. "It must be clear that these aids are preceded by the necessary reports from social workers, and that all of them comply with criteria perfectly defined by the Department, with all the guarantees and with all the transparency", recalled González.

For his part, the Councillor for Social Services reported that, throughout 2021, nearly 12,000 people were attended to by the Town Council's social workers. As for the aid granted, Zapico pointed out that the programme with the greatest economic investment was the Home Help programme, aimed at people in a situation of dependency, "which had a budget of almost two million euros because it is a programme that continues to increase constantly and we do not want to leave any of these people with these needs behind".

During the year 2021, two calls for aid for people with functional diversity were also promoted. This is an issue, according to Zapico, "that had been dragging on for several years and which we have managed to catch up on, with an investment of more than one million euros".
Likewise, the Council allocated 100,000 euros to the so-called Mijas Cards, almost 470,000 euros to social emergency benefits and another 480,000 euros to aid for housing rental. Regarding the latter, the Councillor said that "there are many families with few economic resources who find it very difficult to access decent housing at a reasonable price, so these grants continue to grow and continue to reach more families because they are part of the commitment and social shield that we have been deploying from the City Council of Mijas over the years.

Food Bank

Another programme that continued during 2021 was the Municipal Food Bank, financed through the European Aid Fund, so it did not involve any cost for the Mijas Town Council. Since 2020, the number of families who have accessed this aid has gone from more than 1,200 to 200. "It is a figure that, fortunately, has been decreasing over the months and is due to the employment and economic improvement that has been generated in the municipality, especially since the summer," argued Zapico, while González added that "we hope that the year 2022 will be a year of recovery, that we manage to get out of this pandemic and that Mijas is placed in a more favourable position, from the employment and economic point of view, although from the Consistory we will continue to maintain this aid to not leave anyone behind in this unprecedented social crisis."

 
The attention provided by social workers

Finally, Social Services wanted to highlight the administrative and intermediation work that the area carried out in 2021 with reports on dependency, exclusion and vulnerability, roots and the processing of non-contributory pensions. In total, some 12,000 people were attended in the Department, generating 15% of the documentary records of Mijas Town Hall during 2021. "This would not have been possible without the tireless work of our social workers, who have worked against the clock to respond to the thousands of files that have been arriving in the last 12 months," they conclude.
 

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