The Government allocates 30 million euros to fight poverty in the Canary Islands
The Council of Ministers has approved this Tuesday a grant of 30 million euros aimed at fighting poverty and financing the basic benefits of social services in the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
As reported by the Ministry of Social Rights and the 2030 Agenda, since 2021, and with this new amount, the department headed by Minister Ione Belarra has allocated a total of 95 million euros to the island region for this purpose..
Specifically, Social Rights specifies that one of the actions that the Government of the Canary Islands must develop will be to implement policies to alleviate poverty, particularly child poverty, with the reinforcement of benefits, including information and guidance for access to resources and benefits economic.
At the same time, it adds that it must co-finance the regional minimum income and the citizen income; improve training and job placement opportunities for the young population through the development of second-chance schools and facilitate access to economic benefits, particularly the regional minimum income and the IMV.
Likewise, the Ministry indicates that with these funds it will be possible to reinforce the economic aid and benefits destined to cover the basic needs of food, clothing, housing, education, culture, oral health and the income of those people who are beneficiaries of insufficient or below economic benefits. of the poverty line.
Likewise, they may be directed to: care programs for homelessness; Shared intergenerational housing projects, reinforcement of the dependency care system, care programs for single-parent families, women victims of gender violence, the Roma population or the LGTBI collective; soup kitchens and programs for the immigrant population, including unaccompanied foreign minors.
Regarding the basic benefits of Social Services, the Ministry highlights that those related to information and guidance, home help, accommodation and coexistence, prevention and social integration and social cooperation and promotion of solidarity can be reinforced..
In addition, it highlights that actions that involve the digitization of procedures and new forms of remote care may be financed. All these possible lines of work are framed in the Canary Islands Program to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion, linked to the National Strategy for the Prevention and Fight against Poverty and Social Exclusion 2019-2023.