Thousands of people have helped out since the middle of last week. to help affected areas for DANA to recover. The large number of volunteers led the Generalitat to launch a “volunteer center”, intended to “receive volunteers, organize them into teams and transport them by bus”. The first day of work was this Saturday from 7:00 a.m.
They located it at the Príncipe Felipe Museum in the City of Arts and Sciences. Until then there were 20,000 people. However, not all were able to help and some of them reported chaos in management, taking two hours to travel or even not being able to reach their destination . The next day, Sunday, the influx from there decreased, also due to mobility restrictions imposed by the government. Although dozens of volunteers decided to ignore them and go to Ground Zero anyway.
To avoid disorganization and help classify aid, applications to locate the people concerned let them ask for them. Two of them are “Ayuda Terreta” or “SOS Valencia”.
“We need help to remove the mud from the garage, we are a farm with few inhabitants and there are not enough hands. “We would really appreciate it.” This is a message on the “Ayuda Terreta” platform. Visually, the application is a map with pins of different colors: blue, red, yellow and green, depending on the status of the request or the role that each person will play.
“Contact by WhatsApp, we need machines to remove mud from the roads, there are many areas without access, we don’t know if there are people left, we know there are animals, a breeding of Machaconses, with cows and bulls without food or water, houses dying, destroyed, There is no water, there is no way to remove the mud, thank you very much!! “Help is needed to clear a completely collapsed house in an area inaccessible to volunteers and emergency services. So far you can access from Valencia via the Saler-Perelló-Sueca highway,” read two other messages. They all have one thing in common, They have a red pin, they are waiting for help.
At a glance, the app is a map with the various relevant points marked. If the bedbug is in blue, the location is of those who are willing to help. “We are 4 volunteers with a large bilge pump. We carry cleaning equipment, shovels and a wheelbarrow. We can buy everything we need there. Feel free to contact us for anything you need,” one of the messages read.
In each, in addition to the exact addressvolunteers and affected people contribute a phone numberto facilitate contact. “Thank you all very much, we have a temporary solution until Monday,” says the message from one green bug, already solvedwho was previously red and needed help from a veterinarian. “A grasshopper came into our house and we think it hurt a cat on the 1st in the evening, his mouth is swollen and he can’t eat, please if you can come with an anti-inflammatory or at least prescribe it and if not, let us know. Tell me what we can do, the vets here are closed and we don’t have a car to get around. Thank you!!,” was the initial request.
The process To register and be part of “Ayuda Terreta”, whether to help or receive help, it’s simple. The user simply needs to register and from there add their location and other details, about what is required, for example. Once the process is completed, affected individuals must update the status of their application by changing the color of the pin. From this moment, the already completed processes will end.
“It is important to use it responsibly, now is not the time to do anything else”, asks a message from the site itself, in which we recall that its only objective is “to help people or specific groups in a more specific way. they add, to remind us later that there are still “many collection points” for aid, which can be consulted in the official lists.
While in Valencia and its surrounding areas most markers are red, in the rest of Spain blue dominates, except in parts of Andalusia and Catalonia.
A similar operation has “SOS Valencia”. This is an interactive map in which users mark the points where they are and explain what is happening there. “They are looking for a family who will take care of an elderly woman. A couple (Danay and Otero) and two teenage girls. There has been no contact for more than 24 hours,” says one of the notices. “Two women and a small child trapped. “They are incommunicado.” “70-year-old woman stuck in the back of the house in an apartment in Paiporta Last news on October 29 at 7:40 p.m.”, specify two others.
The application is a Google map in which all reviews are in the Valencian Community. “Put the full address in writing, please!” Delete when the problem is resolved,” they ask the page organization.
