The Accem, Atalaya Intercultural and Burgos Acoge organizations celebrated this Friday the “rectification” of the PP-Vox government team regarding the maintenance of agreements with these three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that work with migrants arriving in the city in the framework of the project. of the budgetary project for 2025. The spokesperson for these three entities, Nuria Revilla, shared yesterday’s remarks by Mayor Cristina Ayala referring to “mainstreaming” and “plurality” in the citizen response last Wednesday during the gathering convened in the Plaza Mayor, which is why, he said, “the necessary work that these entities carry out in the city of Burgos could be confirmed.”
“And in this gratitude we want to express, celebrate and also thank the decision to cancel these measures, not to abolish these agreements and to be able to extend them and thus be able to give continuity to our work that we have been doing for a long time and for which we can’t wait to get back to our daily lives,” he said.
In this sense, Revilla understood that this rectification was “an exercise of responsibility”. “I believe the city has spoken and it has been heard and, therefore, it is also an example in which the municipal team has rectified and it is also an example of this responsibility that it must assume, that we have asked it to assume from day one and that she finally assumed responsibility,” he underlined.
In this sense, the social worker from Burgos Acoge recalled that “they have always praised the work of these entities”. “From the first day, we believed that they had to go back, that they had to go backwards for the good of the city, for the good and for the enrichment that migrants make in this city, who come from Burgos and who must also be governed for them.
“This measure reflects the clamor of all these interests, regardless of ideologies and opinions,” he exclaimed, while emphasizing that “if something has also benefited from all this, it is the strengthening of the third sector, of social fabric, teamwork, networking He clarified at this point that these groups work “in close collaboration with municipal social services”, where – he said – “we have also received their. support from day one.
“We will continue to work for the benefit of the people we serve, for the benefit of the city and for the benefit of the fact that we really want to enrich the city of Burgos even more,” he stressed. “The city has spoken and rectifying is an example of responsibility.”
Likewise, he assured that The NGOs will “continue to work with the most vulnerable populations” and insisted that “we are not committing any illegality”. because, he recalled, “we work with the same objectives, the same principles and the same purpose as the law on social services at the regional level”.
Regarding the agreement control commission demanded by Vox, Revilla said he was “very calm” because “we are very used to the control that all financiers make of our work.” “We have always provided the data to justify every euro spent in the entities. We are very careful with public resourcesextremely careful and we will continue to do so. We are open to any monitoring commission, to any municipal report, as we have demonstrated in recent years,” he declared, reports Ical.
For this reason, he insisted that they do not work “with illegal people”, referring to what Vox reported. “We work with the people and we work for the benefit of those people as full citizens. and that they can access all services under the same conditions as those of us who live here,” he said.
“We all know that situations of irregularity are vulnerable situations and I think that no one wants to have a city where people suffer and where people cannot access certain services,” he added.
In this sense, he recalled that these groups work in collaboration with municipal social services, taking care of the same profile as that of the services and the CEAS. “We are working in close coordination to ensure that everyone can be in a regular situation,” he said.
