Valido calls on the Canarian Government to inject financing to prevent these entities from "deting the resources they allocate to those who need it most" Canary Islands, on September 10, 2021Coalición Canaria-PNC claimed this Friday to the Government of the Canary Islands an injection of extraordinary resources to food banks and social entities so that they can face the rise in electricity.

The executive secretary of Social Rights of the nationalist organization, Cristina Valido, said that NGOs, associations and food banks in the Islands are "at the limit after a year of pandemic and the impact it has had on requests for help." For this reason, he insists that the Torres Executive "must act and must do so quickly to prevent "a decrease in the resources that these entities allocate to those who need it most." Valido recognized the work of food banks and NGOs and assured that "they are the true heroes of the economic and social crisis that Covid is leaving", however, "the Government of the Canary Islands has not been up to the task in the hardest months of the pandemic when thousands of canarian people and families were forced to demand help, not even now." In this sense, he recalled "the health crisis has not ended and when it does, its consequences will continue in thousands of households with their members in Erte, in which they have lost their small businesses and life projects or in which the pandemic took away their work and only source of income." The nationalist leader pointed out that to the increase of 60% of the applications for aid registered in the Islands since the pandemic began there is and to the efforts of food banks, NGOs and entities to meet the demand we must add the increase in fuel and basic supplies, such as electricity, which is "at an all-time high." It is one more effort, says Valido, than adding to the entities that need large cold rooms to store food." In this way, the executive secretary of Social Rights of CC assures that "the alarms of these organizations have already jumped that will have to choose between allocating resources for direct aid to families and risk having their electricity supply cut off or paying the electricity bill." For this reason, he reiterated the need for the Government of the Canary Islands to intervene and inject resources that allow food banks and Canarian NGOs to continue developing their activity and giving an immediate response to those who are going through it the worst and most need it in the Islands.