The first buses with volunteers who thousands of volunteers They were waiting at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia to leave Participate in cleanup efforts in affected areas Thanks to DANA, they have already started to leave.
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.
Decked out with shovels, brushes, buckets and gallons of waterthey had been queuing since 7 a.m. to travel to affected towns to provide aid.
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 Volunteer Platform of the Valencian Community, Miguel Salvador, informed EFE that the 50 buses initially planned, 50 more will be added and it is estimated that There will be “5,000 people leaving here.”
In the City of Arts and Sciences There are approximately 10,000 people waiting to become volunteers. to clean and they won’t all fit 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.”
They distribute masks and gloves to the volunteers who are leaving and who must go to three areas of L’Horta Sud and to the municipalities of La Ribera Llombai and Catadau and They ruled out reaching out to others because “we can’t do everything.”
