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The Department of Fiestas, the Department of Gender Policies and LGTBIQ+ and the "Torrevieja Diversa" association present the events on the occasion of the celebration of Pride 2023, which will take place from June 28 to July 9 in Torrevieja.

The Councilor for Public Works, Employment and Local Development of the Torrevieja City Council, Domingo Paredes, reports that once the established deadline for admission of applications for a line of aid to SMEs, micro-SMEs and the self-employed has expired, in order to minimize the economic impact and social that this energy crisis is assuming for these groups, a total of 409 applications from Torrevieja companies have submitted the required documentation and meet the established requirements of the call carried out by the Provincial Council of Alicante.

"Participation structures are spaces for debate with a vocation for continuity that need two elements: on the one hand, channels or bodies capable of attracting citizens with the intention of contributing their proposals in favor of the improvement or implementation of projects On the other, the existence of structures or figures in the Administration that favor this participation. For this, it is also necessary to create points of intersection that allow connecting public organizations with citizen participation."

The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers of the Torrevieja City Council, Concha Sala, informs of the start of the “Healthy Smiles” campaign, which is being launched by the Association of Families to Help Saharawi Children (FANS) in collaboration with this council. The objective of the campaign is to send dental hygiene products, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, to the Saharawi refugee camps.

The Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja, Tomás Ballester, accompanied by the director of the social consulting firm EQUÀLITAT, participació i Igualtat, José Luis Sahuquillo, have presented the campaign to raise awareness and prevent chemical submission among the youth population that is It will take place on August 26 and 27, and on September 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17 and 23, at night from 00:00 to 03:00.

After the letter sent to the City Council of Torrevieja by the president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), Abel Caballero, in which an agreement was reached in the National Commission of Local Administration (CNAL) for the creation of a group of work to analyze how to compensate for the drop in income from the capital gains tax, the mayor, Eduardo Dolón, has formally requested their participation, since the municipality of Torrevieja has been one of the most affected by these jurisprudential and legislative fluctuations.

AGAMED launched an initiative at the end of last year to help the most vulnerable groups and promote sustainability among citizens. Thus, it promised to donate 1 euro for each customer who requested the digital invoice. This month has concluded this campaign in which more than €2,000 have been raised that will go to the local NGO Solidarity Food.

In a meeting held this Thursday morning at the Torrevieja Town Hall, chaired by the mayor of the city, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare and Equality, Tomás Ballester, the last two winners, Encarnación Rebollo and María Teresa Sáez, the journalist Melania Sala on behalf of the local media, as well as Josefina Nieto as a representative of the cultural field and Antonia Albentosa, a housewife, acting as secretary María Isabel García, proceeded to the election of the MUJER awards 2022 on the occasion of the celebration next Sunday, March 8, of "International Women's Day". After reading all the proposals received by the Department of Social Welfare and Equality, it has been decided unanimously:

Representatives of 22 local NGOs have participated in a meeting convened by the Torrevieja City Council to coordinate the reception of humanitarian aid that is going to be sent to the Ukrainian people, who are suffering from the current armed conflict. The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, together with the councilors of International Residents, Gitte Lund; of Citizen Participation, Inmaculada Montesinos and Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, has announced that the City Council is going to provide a place in which the arrival of all the material that is delivered for this purpose will be centralized and that it will be attended by volunteers from the different NGOs ´s of Torrevieja.

The Department of Equality of the City Council of Torrevieja has made available to the educational centers of the town a co-educational project using the traditional game of the goose, but updated and versioned in a gender perspective. It is an interactive teaching material to work on equality between women and men in relation to professions, activities, co-responsibility..., aimed at primary school students.

The Urban Cleanliness councilor of the Torrevieja City Council, Carmen Gómez, reports the removal of 260 tons of rubble and garbage in the openings located in the vicinity of the Torrevieja International Auditorium during this last week.

SYNOPSIS Since she was a child, Nora (Isabel Pardines) has always been subject to the will of the men who have surrounded her. For this reason, for her, being the doll her husband Héctor (José Vicente Soriano) plays with is the most normal thing in the world. But the unexpected visit of her friend Cristina (Lucía Iñesta / Lucía Espinosa), the illness of the best friend of the family, Dr. Ramos (Paco Pando) and the revelation of something secret, known only to Nora and Mr. Pardo ( José Manuel Vidal), will cause Nora to finally realize that her life must change and that she cannot continue living in a dollhouse.

The online questionnaire will be available until Tuesday, November 30, 2021, and will also have a campaign at street level

The Councilor for Infrastructure, Sandra Sánchez, and the Councilor for Mobility, Federico Alarcón, attended a new edition of Trafic last Tuesday, November 2, under the slogan "Connect to urban mobility", in which the focus on the Strategy for Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility 2030, according to the objectives set by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, MITMA, and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, MITERD.

The Torrevieja City Council has already acquired the autonomous coffin lifting platform, which was awarded to the Zaragoza company MARCO TALLER CERRAJERÍA SL, for a global amount of 27,588 euros (VAT included).