Quite confusing situation among the thousands of volunteers who attended this Saturday the point set up by the Generalitat Valenciana to collaborate in the towns affected by DANA. Impatience and lack of information have taken over some attendees, who have decided to leave on their own: “After two hours waiting, we got off the bus,” says one of the displaced people, who was heading to the town of Llombai. . “I was on a bus that left the City of Arts and we asked the driver to stop near Castellar, after 30 minutes of driving around. “Some of us who were going have gotten off and are walking to Alfafar,” says Alberto, one of the volunteers.
The Generalitat Valenciana has communicated that for this Saturday the help shifts of the volunteers who have presented themselves to collaborate in the towns affected by the dana have already been organized and requests that the rest of the volunteers who want to help come in the coming days.
From seven in the morning the regional Executive manages the arrival of thousands of people in the City of Arts and Sciences. Each group of volunteers goes with a coordinator and receives civil protection instructions to know where and how to help. During the early hours of the morning, a confusion with the displacement has provoked the anger of dozens of volunteers, who were heading to the Bonaire shopping center to relocate from there to other municipalities. In a moment of confusion due to some confusing order, they thought they were going to clean the stores in the shopping center.
Dozens of waiting volunteers have gone to the towns of l’Horta Sud, the closest to the city, to work on their own after the wait. Citizen self-organization is proving essential in the most remote locations, although municipalities ask for caution. It is recommended to wear a mask, gloves and waterproof clothing due to the substances that the mud may contain, and not to pour it into the sewers.
Five buses with more than 200 people have been sent from Valencia to Requena in the volunteer action launched by the Generalitat. The coordinators of each bus are volunteers who were also waiting in line, says one of the attendees. When we arrived at the municipality they expected there to be a Civil Protection contact to coordinate us, “but here they didn’t know anything.” The Local Police, says this assistant, has said that there was work for the volunteers because the machines had already acted on Friday and order had been restored. In Chiva, the situation is similar. The agents, some volunteers say, did not know they were volunteers.
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