Calvià Daily

Calvià receives about 82,000 euros from the IMAS for economic aids to families in risk of situation of social risk. The signing of this agreement means to triple the amount that the Town Hall received in 2015.

The Mayor of Calvià, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal, has signed an agreement with the President of the Institut Mallorquí d'Afers Socials (IMAS), Margalida Puigserver, for the granting of economic aids to families with children in situation of social risk and to people in situation of serious and urgent need.

The signing of this agreement means that Calvià will receive 81,899.07 euros in 2016, tripling the item received in 2015 which was of 26,110.73 euros.

The agreement signed today has as a main objective, the coordination in the management of the economic aids to:

- Families with minors in situation of social risk residents in the municipality of Calvià, these aids are understood as specific primary care to prevent the separation of the minors from their families and avoid their defencelessness,

- people in situation of urgent and serious need, with special attention to situations of eviction or supervening poverty,

- people who are in need of a priority attention, contained in the Article 6 of the Law 4/09 of 11th June of Social Services of IB.

The Mayor has stressed that with the signing of this agreement, the Calvià Town Hall reinforces the social policies, which is one of the main axes of the policies of the government team and the Consell de Mallorca. "The attention to people who have difficulties, the attention to social basic emergencies, all this requires resources -has pointed out-and this agreement with the Consell Insular which triples the amounts offered last year will allow us to reach many more people of Calvià and in better conditions".

In 2015, the aid reached 144 families.