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Chamber yesterday attended awareness-raising event organized business with the slogan "do not close your eyes, Caritas needs you

The Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, yesterday offered his support and the Municipality of Murcia to the project promoted by Caritas for obtaining and distributing food to needy people, who, by reason of present crisis have increased the demand for aid received this NGO.

The act of raising business, organized under the slogan "Do not close your eyes, Caritas Needs You", was attended also the director of Caritas in the region, José Luis Leante, the Minister of Social Policy, Women and Migration, Joaquín Bascuñana The Deputy Mayor of Social Welfare Policy and Equality, María del Carmen Pelegrin, and the President of CROEM, Miguel del Toro.

In his brief speech, House expressed concern about the new pockets of exclusion that is causing the severe economic crisis and "the steady increase in unemployment in all its harshness."

The Mayor expressed his confidence that "we can fight poverty and build a more just and fraternal."

Caritas has more than 200 donors in the region, but the increasing rates of poverty and inequality has made last January to serve more than 10,000 families who received food from the warehouses of the NGOs.

As explained in the act Pedro Adrian Jimenez, a volunteer behind the project "Do not close your eyes, Caritas needs you, the most urgent in Murcia is precisely the donation of food products.

From this need came the campaign aimed primarily at companies in Murcia, but also open to citizens and institutions.

In this regard, the City Council, through the Board of Governors last month approved spending 30,000 euros for the purchase of food for distribution to needy people through Caritas.

The NGO has a presence in the region since 1954 and has 155 working groups, about 1,200 volunteers and 37 social welfare centers to address situations of severe poverty.

According to the National Institute of Statistics, last year filed for bankruptcy in the region a total of 94 families and businesses.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia