After last year’s health constraints made it necessary to postpone the collecting of Christmas products in the centers, the schools of Sant Antoni and Sant Agust are once again collaborating with Caritas this year. A hundred families will once again receive chocolates, nougat, polvorones, or canned asparagus.
This collaboration, however, does not end there. The Sa Serra secondary school, which offers a food training course, created special biscuits for the social center a few days ago, to which it has now added lobster creams for Christmas. During these days, the soup kitchen has been able to provide “arroz de matanzas” from the Aspanob celebration, which was conducted on Sunday.
For evening, they have menus funded by Ibiza’s Bureau Against Social Exclusion. For lunch, however, people can rely on products given by restaurants or private individuals at the food bank. “We try to encourage the entire town to contribute since we don’t always have enough time,” says Silvia Iglesias, a social worker.
She is the lone employee of Cáritas in Sant Antoni, but she relies on the voluntary work of both the director, Antonio Mohedas, and approximately forty colleagues, each of whom has varying availability. The entity’s headquarters at ses Variades also provides a shower and laundry service (with two washing machines) three times per week “we would like to be more, but we have to pay for energy and water.”
Caritas: support with bureaucracy
Their duties range from assisting with official procedures such as renewing an NIE, DNI, or passport to accompanying patients to the medical center. Above all, their main purpose is that their assistance “assists people in becoming more and more independent, in looking for work, and in not becoming accustomed to this condition.” “Our work’s purpose is to disappear,” Iglesias ends.
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