A helping hand

ONDARA Town Hall has renewed the col‐laboration agreement with the Red Cross to carry out a number of social support projects this year.

The agreement, signed by Ondara mayor José Ramiro, will enable the local commit‐tee of the charity to continue offering the numerous services already under way and to launch new ones aimed at helping crisis‐hit residents, elderly citizens and other sec‐tors of society facing conditions of extreme vulnerability.

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Another new car park for Benidorm

FOLLOWING the success of the new public car parks in Benidorm over the Easter holiday period, the local council has an‐nounced the creation of a new one in the Rincón de Loix with 700 spaces and an access roundabout.

Work on the new car park is already under way and is expected to be completed in two months ready for the summer.

mittee meeting, which also featured representatives of all local political parties present in the council.

In a related development, the religious order that pro‐vides a service at the home, the Salesianas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, last week announced their departure af‐ter 103 years due to “a lack of new vocations and the ad‐vanced age” of the four nuns who work at the centre.

All members of the council expressed their wish to work together to find solutions for the sisters to stay.

The 16,560 square‐me‐tre plot is located on the Avinguda Bernat de Sarrià and will increase the num‐ber of free parking spaces around the town to more than 8,000.

“It is possible to walk to almost anywhere in Benidorm in 10 or 15 min‐utes,” declared Mobility councillor José Ramón González de Zárate, adding, “thanks to the thousands of free parking spaces in the town we had no traffic problems over Easter.”

These include financial grants, advice on domestic economy and energy efficiency, help with filling out online applications for government aid, employment guidance, promotion of active ageing, integration of migrants through cultural and social activi‐ties, Spanish language courses for foreign‐ers, and educational support for students aged eight to 14 at risk of exclusion, among others.

Ondara Red Cross can be found at Aveni‐da de Alicante, 8.