Today, 24th March 2022, the Mijas Town Council has been recognised with the first Local Governance Award of the Andalusian Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FAMP), for its management during the pandemic with the Orea Plan. A direct aid package that benefited more than 3,500 family businesses and self-employed people in the municipality. The Mayor of Mijas, Josele González, has celebrated this recognition “which supports a project that has been a reference not only at provincial but also at the Andalusian level. These aids were born exclusively to reach out to our self-employed and family businesses when they were having the hardest time. The state of alarm and the pandemic paralysed our economy and it was the duty of this local government to put all the resources we had at our disposal on the table so as not to leave them behind”. Thus was born the Rescue Office for Entrepreneurs and the Self-Employed, the Orea Plan. A direct aid to the business fabric that benefited more than 3,500 family businesses and the self-employed in the town “and which allowed them to survive in a truly complicated year. Thanks to this aid, many businesses did not close their doors, indirectly benefiting more than 6,000 workers in the municipality”, recalled González, who stressed that an “unprecedented commitment was made in our town council, making 12 million euros available to our entrepreneurs, and the self-employed in record time, a goal that very few local corporations could match”. In total, 12 million euros grants of between 3,000 and 6,000 euros that have made the consistory mijeño win the first prize in the category “Local Public Initiative” during the pandemic caused by the COVID-19, of the Local Governance Awards 2021, that is driven by the FAMP and that will have annual character.   These FAMP Local Governance awards will be presented on 20th April at a ceremony to be held in the Caixaforum Auditorium in Seville.

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