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This coming Sunday, April 2, marks World Autism Awareness Day. For this reason, different activities will take place in Torrevieja organized by the Association of Parents of Students with Special Educational Needs (APANEE), with support, for the third consecutive year, from the Torrevieja City Council.

The Department of International Residents of the City Council of Torrevieja, directed by Gitte Lund, organizes the III edition of Spanish courses for international residents registered in our city.

The Councilor for International Residents of the Torrevieja City Council, Gitte Lund, will attend the event to be held in the center of Torrevieja next Saturday, June 25, on the occasion of the United Kingdom Armed Forces Day.

The Councilor for International Residents, Cooperation and Immigration, Gitte Lund Thomsen, has delivered this morning at the Palacio de la Música, the diplomas to the 130 Ukrainian men and women who have taken the Spanish courses organized by the City Council of Torrevieja, and that began on March 30.

The mayor has reported that at the moment there are more than 3,500 citizens from Ukraine who are already registered in the Association of Ukrainians of Torrevieja since the beginning of the Russian invasion

The Councilor for International Residents, Cooperation and Immigration of the Torrevieja City Council, Gitte Lund Thomsen, has welcomed all of them and encouraged them to integrate into Torrevieja society and learn our language to facilitate their full integration into the city. It should be noted that these Spanish classes are aimed at people of all ages, with women predominating more than men.

The AGAMED Board of Directors, held yesterday morning, reported on the application of the Social Fund executed as of December 31, 2021.

Around 400 Ukrainian children and young people teach their studies in two educational centers set up for them, such as the center of the Association of Ukrainians in Torrevieja and, now, the Salvador Ruso public school, which has been opened to serve the large number of children who They have arrived since the beginning of the Russian invasion.

This morning a work meeting was held at the Torrevieja City Council to finalize the Reception Plan for people arriving from Ukraine and the details of the administrative processes and available services.

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.

Yesterday morning, Tuesday, a meeting was organized with the residents of Torresur, an area of the Rocajuna urbanization, with a majority of British residents, with the presence of the deputy mayor of the Torrevieja City Council, Rosario Martínez, the Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Federico Alarcón, and the mayor of International Residents, Gitte Lund Thomsen, and in which members of the Civil Guard and the Torrevieja Local Police were also present.

The Councilor for Education of the Torrevieja City Council, Ricardo Recuero, the president of Rotary Club Torrevieja, Luis Andreu; The representative of the Humanitarian Foundation of Spanish Rotarians, Ricardo Molina, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz, have presented this morning the second call for the Comedor Scholarships for children in the city who have not been able to have access to scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education of the Generalitat.

The Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, has presented the aid of the "Child Bonus". It is about financial aid for students enrolled in the first cycle of nursery school.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, have visited, together with the ASAFAN delegate in Torrevieja, Óscar Urtasun, this information point which offers all the information on the aid and benefits with the that have, in addition to managing and processing scholarships, FN degrees, etc. The hours of attention to the public are in August: Tuesday and Thursday in the morning, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from the month of September. Among the advantages for large families are discounts on the urban contribution, electricity and water bills, sports activities, all kinds of transport, museums, ..., as well as discounts on school fees and university fees, on the Social Security fee by home caregivers, etc. To contact ASAFAN Torrevieja you can call: 686 083 054 or 661 348 048. Also by email: torrevieja@asafan.org.

The Department of Education of the Torrevieja City Council, in collaboration with ROTARY CLUB, AGAMED, LA CAIXA FOUNDATION, ASIVEGA, CAJA RURAL CENTRAL and different individuals, launched a project in November 2020 to grant Dining Scholarships to boys and girls from the city that did not have access to them in the normalized process of the Ministry of Education.