Thousands of volunteers come to the Valencia coordination center to help those affected by DANA

Some 100,000 volunteers gathered this Saturday around the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia to leave, in different buses, for the municipalities most affected by DANA, a catastrophe that, for the moment, has left 202 fatalities. in autonomy.

The Generalitat Valenciana yesterday launched an official call for all those people who wanted to collaborate from the city to come to the Ciutat de les Arts at 7 a.m. to be organized and distributed by areas.

As commented by the president of the Volunteer Platform of the Valencian Community, The number of registered volunteers amounts to 100,000 and many of them left this morning in 50 buses to travel to different towns.

The avalanche of volunteers has forced another 50 buses to be enabled. Thus, the first ones who have left for the affected areas will return to the starting point at 2:00 p.m., while the following will leave at 2:00 p.m. and return around 5:00 p.m.

In the Ciutat de les Arts de València, bibs are being handed out to identify the volunteers and some material with food and water.