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Benidorm sends nearly 20,000 litres of water and 10,000 litres of milk to the province of Valencia in the first hours of collection

 

• Thousands of citizens have come to the Palau d'Esports to donate products and collaborate in the collection of basic necessities for those affected by the DANA.

• The collection point will be open until 7pm yoday, Sunday, also from 9am to 7pm.

Benidorm City Council has already sent a dozen trucks loaded with food, cleaning supplies and basic necessities donated by citizens and businesses in the city to the province of Valencia to help those affected by the DANA. This was conveyed by Mayor Toni Pérez, who said that "until 2 p.m., in just five hours since the opening of this collection point at the Palau d'Esports l'Illa de Benidorm, we have been able to gather here and send to the affected area nearly 20,000 liters of water, 10,000 liters of milk, one hundred thousand masks and hundreds of kilos of food, cleaning supplies, personal hygiene supplies, footwear and rain boots", which have been delivered to the Emergency Coordinator for distribution among the population affected by this catastrophe. 

The mayor stressed that “we already knew that Benidorm is a caring city and, as such, it has responded massively to the invitation we launched yesterday to collaborate, to help, as far as possible, to alleviate the most urgent needs of the population.” A collaboration to which “thousands of people have responded who have come here to contribute articles and products, and also several hundred more who since this morning, as they will do this afternoon and tomorrow, have come as volunteers to receive, pack, select and load trucks to take to Valencia,” he added. 

Among the vehicles that have already been sent to the area, five trucks and several vans have been loaded exclusively with jugs and bottles of drinking water to cover the most urgent needs of the population while the situation of lack of supply in the most affected towns is resolved. In addition, milk, masks, diapers and baby food products, hygiene products, bleach bottles, brooms, buckets, garbage bags, gloves, pet food and non-perishable foods have also been added to the load, along with footwear, socks and other cleaning products, thus responding to "the most pressing needs that have been reported to us by the Emergency Coordinator," said Pérez. 

In addition to the help received from the population, there have also been various contributions made by local companies, as well as by public service concessionaires such as Hidraqua, FCC or Actua, which have provided vehicles and personnel to move a large part of the material collected in the Palau. The mayor explained that the first two trucks sent to the site "have taken the merchandise to the IKEA media reception center and to the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències de València, while the remaining vehicles have gone to Ford in Almussafes, from where the distribution to the needy populations is coordinated."

Likewise, Toni Pérez has pointed out that “we are going to continue with the same dynamic until seven in the evening today, when the first day of collection is scheduled to end”, which will be repeated again today, Sunday, also at the Palau d'Esports, between 9 and 19 hours.

He also stressed that this help is also joined by that which Benidorm “has been providing since practically the first minute with Local Police officers, dogs trained to search and locate people, with police vehicles or with tanker trucks” and he has pointed out that, also in the coming days, “we will continue to be at the side of the affected populations, providing all the support they need”. 

Finally, Toni Pérez has thanked all the people who are coming to the Palau d'Esports to make donations for their collaboration, as well as all the volunteers and companies that have joined this collection.