The DANA that will affect the south-east of the peninsula – with a special impact on the Valencian Country – at the end of October has impacted incalculably: human losses, constant fields devastated, cases flooded, infrastructures and cotxes destroyed and hundreds of records destroyed under the mud. According to the AEMET, it is an “extraordinary” episode of precipitation, but it would not be strange and could predict similar incidents with greater frequency and virulence due to climate change.
He managed the global policy of the situation at hand, and there are two groups that are even more likely to suffer the dire consequences of a temporary nature of these characteristics: this is the talk of the people sense llar i of them most vulnerable familieswho normally live in more humble areas, in more precarious cases, or, ultimately, in situations of infrahabitatge. You see silences that, beyond going through daily difficulties, are faced with a complete lack of protection in emergencies with DANA.
“Insufficient” resources for sensellarisme, according to Arrels
The director ofArrels Foundation, Beatriz Fernandezexplains to Public which, when it is produced by extreme meteorological phenomena or in times of extreme weather, the Barcelona City Council, in coordination with Civil Protection, activates a list of places to sleep for people who “voluntarily want to point out”. With the arrival of plugs to Catalonia on November 4, the Barcelona City Council will send an opening communication of 100 litres, 80 for households and 20 for gifts, to the Center d’Acollida d’Emergències (CAE)a facility located in Poblenou, next to the Center d’Urgències i Emergències Socials de Barcelona (CUESB).
This facility is intended to serve people who have lost their homes due to an exceptional situation such as a fire, a flood or a disaster. According to the City Council, there was also a “cabdal” paper on more extensive social emergencies, but according to Fernández, “It is a temporary molt resource“which is so good point Civil Protection warns that the crisis has ended. “Extreme climatic phenomena are increasingly more common and Solutions for vulnerable people are insufficient“, afegeix.
According to the darrer recompte d’Arrels, a total of 1,384 people live on the street to Barcelona the desembre passat, 12% more than 2022. A name that, according to the director of the foundation, only needs to be “increased.” De fet, it is tracta of the highest figure since 2008 They are going to start registering.
in the darrera Operation Fred in alert phase ―the temperatures go cold until they are zero graus― that the City Council will activate between the January 21, 2023they will be available 266 places in total. 75 CAE places; 93 additional places to mateix equipment thanks to the installation of llits in multipurpose salts; 18 places exclusively for donations to the Center d’Estades Breus (CEB), to the upper floor of the CUESB mateix, and 80 places to the facilities of the Dos de Maig passatge. According to the consistori, during the five nights that this phase will last “It is not going to dismiss anyone because they lack places“.
Find “stable” solutions, do not respond “on a whim”
One of the reasons why not all people who want to come to this equipment are because, directly, they do not want to. “Some people who sleep on the street and have already visited their space, know that they can sleep there every day and have a minimum daily schedule. Haver de marxar few dies no els serveix, poden haverdut el seu refugi quan tornin“, argues Fernández. Furthermore, “sometimes all of the company’s belongings and animals are not accepted by the CAE,” he stated.
Tot i això, the director of Arrels points out that these temporary equipment cannot be the “solution to sensellarisme” and that the administration cannot act “according to climatic phenomena”but rather that “stable” resources are available. From his point of view, the valid answer is the right to habitation: “As for the rest, we cannot build 1,300 apartments, but in coordination with the City Council and the Generalitat we can work on the line of thousands of stable allotjaments”.
The most vulnerable families require more attention
Along with the people sense llar, families with men and economic resources They also face more the effects of climate change. If only a few people can take refuge from the cold – as some have difficulty paying the heating bill – it is more likely that they will continue to be victims of the inclemency of the weather because their buildings and buildings are less cared for and protected.
To present just an example, according to the map of the flood zones of Catalonia, Sant Adrià del Besòs It is one of the most risky municipalities, with 86% of its 37,283 inhabitants being potentially affected. Si ens fixem en les Latest information from l’Idescat 2021the gross disposable family income (RFDB) per inhabitant in this location is 15,885 euros. In Barcelona, the figure finally increases to 21,847 euros. It is evident that there are also flood zones in richer municipalities, but they are better able to protect or restore a cop that has finalized the emergency.
Segons Alexandra GabarroHead of International Cooperation, Human Rights, DIH and Medi Ambient of the Creu Roja, “les economic, work, family or health circumstances can condition the possibilities to face a flooda heat wave or a drought episode.” According to her, “more attention should be paid to the collectives that bear the effects of the intersection between the various types of vulnerability, such as the gender, immigration status, age or social class“These people suffer “in a distressed manner” from the impact of the climate which, if it affects the entire population, “will have a special impact, both in the long term and in the short term, making their personal recovery process more difficult.”
Asked about the first effects of an incident with DANA, Gabarró explains to Public that “are related to the difficulty of coverage of basic needs“: access to food, water, sanitation, health care, psychosocial support, allotment… So, the consequences are limited to the materials produced in their habitats, “generally the most precarious.”
Per la seva part, the coordinator of the Creu Roja a Catalunya, Anna Sabateasserts that “the most visible part of the emergency is the recovery and Reconstruction of communities after the disaster“. To return to normality minimally, it is estimated that there will be months or ends and all work in some areas.
In this sense, he points out, after a disaster they always prepare “a response plan” to identify and temporalize the needs, along with “a portfolio of projects to be developed at the end in the post-emergence.” The main objective during the crisis is “save vines”, but the subsequent effort focuses on “continuing to care for the people affected, both in the material and emotional aspects, in theajut support the col·lectius that are already vulnerable before the disaster (great people, migrants, infants), in the promotion of social well-being and community reactivation and, finally, in the empowerment of citizens to respond to future emergencies”.
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