The first buses with volunteers waiting by the thousands in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia to leave Participate in cleanup efforts in areas affected by DANA They have already started dating. In a huge queue, thousands of people waited patiently for the organization, managed by the Valencian government, to tell them which bus to board and which destination to go to.
Armed with shovels, brushes, buckets and liters of water, they had been queuing since 7 a.m. to go to help the stricken towns. Ana Pascual is one of them, she has been with her partner since seven in the morning. This is the first day he will help and he hopes that today, now guided by the Generalitat, he will be more operational. “There are many of us and it is better that we organize ourselves”he told EFE while waiting in line.
For Pascual, it’s “better” this way and even if he still doesn’t know where he will go or when he will return to Valencia, he hopes that his help will be useful to his neighbors. The president of the Platform of Volunteers of the Valencian Community, Miguel Salvador, informed EFE that to the 50 buses initially planned, 50 more will be added and that they estimate that they will be “5,000 people are leaving here”.
In the City of Arts and Sciences, around 10,000 people are waiting to volunteer to clean up and not all of them will be able to get on the buses. He explained that those who left now should return at 2 p.m. “and those who were able to leave today will be able to leave after 2 p.m.”
Are distribution of masks and gloves to volunteers who leave and have to go to three areas of L’Horta Sud and the municipalities of La Ribera Llombai and Catadau and have ruled out going to others because “they don’t get to everything”.
