A bittersweet experience. While some of the thousands of volunteers who boarded the buses organized by the Generalitat this morning did recount a gratifying experience upon returning to the City of Sciences, the majority got off the buses with a mixture of indignation and helplessness. “They have deceived us, they have dedicated themselves to giving us a tour, they have given us a macabre route,” denounced one of the young women who had left home at six in the morning and had seen how she wasted the day getting on the bus without being able to help nobody. The truth is that the first alarm signal already occurred at the time of departure, when none of the volunteers knew where the bus they were getting on was headed. A part of them, up to thirteen according to some sources, reached Chiva, a town 30 kilometers from Valencia, which makes it impossible to access on foot from the urban area. To their surprise, when they arrived they found that the local authorities did not know they were going there. “The mayor of Chiva said that they were already organized there and did not need help,” says the volunteer. Related News standard No About twenty volunteers, treated for poisoning in Chiva where they were bailing water TJThe surprise arrival has sown confusion in both the volunteers as well as those who organized aid in Chiva. Some of the buses have returned to the City of Sciences without the volunteers getting off. Others, after being stopped for another half hour, have returned and have left the volunteers free to help as much as possible, although it has also caused problems when it comes to locating them for the return and some of them have almost spent the night. in ChivaMutiny in BonaireThe other problem has occurred in the Bonaire shopping center, where ABC was doing a report on the rescue in the underground parking lot. The arrival of the buses has also surprised both the volunteers and those responsible for cleaning the shopping center. When the coordinators of each bus invited the volunteers to get off and clean the outdoor parking lot, several of them rioted and got off the bus to walk to Aldaia, the closest town, where the streets were completely flooded. Related News standard Yes The UME shrinks the parking lot of the Bonaire shopping center “without knowing what we are going to find” José Ramón Navarro-Pareja | Special envoy to Valencia Given the refusal of the majority of the volunteers to clean a place where there was no personal emergency and where there were already hired personnel carrying out debris removal tasks, the organizers proposed the impossibility of going to Aldaya, “since “They don’t need help there.” There have been tense moments, with the buses parked at the exit of the parking lot and with coordinators and volunteers getting out of them to meet and discuss with those next to them. The dispute has been settled with an apparent consensus solution: the volunteers would go to Aldaya walking (it is about three kilometers) and the buses would wait for them in Bonaire until four in the afternoon, when they would take them back to the City of Sciences. It was then that the inconsistency of having more than three hundred people walking three kilometers one way and another three kilometers back, with the buses stopped, was raised. And that is when several of the drivers have joined the riot, offering to take the volunteers to the town, assuming the consequences that will arise from failure to comply with the order received. A discussion that has caused the volunteers to come to 2 p.m. to Aldaya, when the return was scheduled for 4 p.m. “This is absurd, there is no one in control of this, or worse, it is led by monkeys with guns,” explained one of the ‘rebel’ volunteers to ABC. foot of bus. The truth is that the lack of coordination has been total and the insistence of those responsible that the volunteers clean the shopping center is not understood. Asked by ABC, the person in charge of the work in Bonaire explained that they did not expect this help and had not requested it either. “When they arrived we told them that we did not need help and that it was better for them to go somewhere else,” he explained.
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