Supermarket trolleys with packs of toilet paper, bags of rice, diapers, boxes with cartons of milk and liters of water, bleach, detergent, shower gel, mops, brooms… A countless list of essential products fills Madrid’s cleaning canton. Town Hall on Santa Engracia Street, in Chamberí. All of them, not only stored in this one, but in different donation collection points in the region, will head towards the zero point of the tragedy, with the intention of reaching the last person affected by DANA in Valencia, aged 27 years old. , she is Valencian. He tells this diary with anger at not being able to help his neighbors, despite his efforts. However, she and her group of friends found a way to lend a helping hand more than 300 kilometers away. They spend the day in this space set up by the capital’s town hall, loading all the donations into the trucks – during this weekend, it is estimated that more than 400 arrived at the Crystal Pavilion of the Casa de Campo in the canton of Neighbors and Chamberí. volunteers sort donations at the collection point set up by Madrid City Hall Tania Sieira A row of private cars wait, with their trunks open, for volunteers to collect everything they have brought. Young people, children with grandparents and couples approach the uniformed staff – staff of the capital’s town hall – to ask for what they need, they go to the nearest supermarket and return with bags containing everything they asked for. Others, who end up being infected by the wave of solidarity, decide to stay and help classify the products. Related news Director’s opinion Yes Chess chain Julián Quirós Volunteers have filled the gap left by officials “The packages are out that arrive to us, a first classification is carried out by the volunteers, they are separated by type of product, they are palletized, boxed, boxed and taken to the Crystal Palace in Casa de Campo. From there, it is transported to an Ifema pavilion, where the government delegation receives it, so that the army can transport it to Valencia”, says Borja Carabante, delegate for town planning, environment and mobility of the Madrid City Hall, present on site ABC is currently supporting the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, as well as the spokespersons of the different political groups of the city hall. Industrial warehouse in Alcalá de Henares where the donations will be collected. to send them to Valencia Tania SieiraThis is the path taken by the donations of thousands of Madrid residents who throughout the week went to all the activated points both in the capital and in the Community of Madrid wants to show solidarity with Valencia, which was the scene of one of the greatest natural disasters to hit the country in half a century and which so far deplores more than 200 deaths.First stopFrom the Palace of Cibeles, the 21 cleaning cantons from the capital and 22 municipal police stations, open from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. throughout the weekend, arrive at Casa de Campo 20 trucks per hour, according to Juan J. Giménez Mediavilla, head of the Municipal Logistics Center. There, members of the Environment, Volunteers for Madrid – with the support of Samur Social – and Civil Protection work tirelessly to prepare this aid, to which must be added the number of people willing to collaborate. by neighbors and volunteers from several municipalities in the region. The donations were transferred this weekend to an Ifema pavilion – which stores everything that arrives from the capital – and industrial warehouses located in Alcalá de Henares – which take care of what is collected in the rest of the region – where there are several thousand people. of pallets waiting to be sent to Valencia Fruit of generosity One of them, Garena, reached its capacity limit yesterday. Today, in the face of this unexpected wave of collaboration that we are experiencing both in Madrid and in the rest of Spain, a new warehouse will be opened in this same city to accommodate all these goods. “All this is possible thanks to volunteerism, contributions from public and private companies, citizens… We are even in a warehouse donated by a citizen to facilitate the work,” Francisco Martín, government delegate in Madrid, told the newspaper . a visit to the warehouse of an industrial area in Alcala, with a storage capacity of 2,200 square meters. “It’s a task that involves so many people that it leads us to have to increase the volume of warehouses,” he emphasizes, from donated products, pallets and moving boxes to packing tape. that surrounds donations. as well as the means of transport to transport the goods to its various stops, were born from the incessant helping intention of the Spanish company. The personnel located in these warehouses authorized by the government delegation come from various volunteers from the National Police, companies involved in this solidarity process and the government delegation itself. Yesterday was the first day they were able to launch the. first trucks bound for Valencia. Expeditions are carried out in coordination with the National Emergency Center and the Valencian Generalitat, with departures carried out in accordance with the requests required in the territory. All this with the intention that the goods arrive with the guarantee that the municipalities concerned will be able to assimilate this arrival, underlines the government delegation madrid_dia_0703Pilar, the young Valencian who spent the long weekend thinking of her friends and family. , admits who fears that the people concerned will fall into oblivion now that routine is returning. During the hours when she is not working, she will return to the cleaning canton of Chamberí or any other point in Madrid where she can feel close to the victims of DANA. What the Madrilenians showed this weekend is that they will also help.
