The presentation of the future Comprehensive Care Center for homeless people has focused the institutional visit made to the Bethany facilities in the Line of Conception. The project, which will be developed annexed to the main building of this entity, has been promoted thanks to the request of the City Council to a line of aid for public resources of residential care, and will have a financing of 1.2 million euros of the recovery, transformation and resilience plan, financed by the European Union.
During the visit, the Minister of Social Inclusion, youth, Families and Equality of the Junta de Andalucía, Loles López, was accompanied by the mayor of the Line of La Concepción, Juan Franco. Both were received by the director of Bethany, Begoña Arana, and knew the technical details of the project prepared by the Municipal Infrastructure Department. The new construction will include six units of domestic nuclei with total capacity for 54 places. Each unit will have five bedrooms (two individuals, two doubles and one triple), two bathrooms, living room and kitchen.
The design also contemplates two social intervention workshops and acquisition of daily life skills, four offices and toilets on the ground floor. The infrastructure will have photovoltaic plates and a passable vegetable cover for small urban orchards.
The Minister Loles López stressed that “Andalusia leads the change towards a more human and efficient model for homeless people,” focused on comprehensive care. He stressed that this approach also distributes the resources in enclaves with specific needs, beyond the big cities. He thanked Bethany’s team for his work with the most vulnerable groups, “always working with heart and humanity.”
-Mayor Juan Franco valued the role of third sector entities and pointed out that the new center will mark “a before and after in the development of New Bethany Hogar”, highlighting the need for networking to face growing social realities.
Begoña Arana emphasized the importance of developing projects of this magnitude in contexts such as the line of conception, defending its usefulness to “face new social realities, to build a more fair and egalitarian world.”
The visit also attended the sub -delegate of the Board in the region, Javier Ros; the General Director of Social Protection and Preferential Care Barries, Antonio Ismael Huertas; the territorial delegate of social inclusion, youth, families and equality in the province of Cádiz, Alfonso Candón; the Parliamentary and Councilor Linense, Susana González; and the Councilor for Subsidies, Yolanda Fernández Bort.
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