MRIDA, 25 (EUROPA PRESS)
74 percent of the people who have requested help from the Red Cross in Extremadura in the post-pandemic period within the framework of the React Plan are women.
At the end of 2022, the Red Cross launched this urgent response plan to the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and the conflict in Ukraine and, since then, the institution in the region has helped a total of 119 people. , most of them, 88, women.
In this period, more than 100 aids have been delivered, mainly related to the payment of basic supplies such as gas, diesel, electricity and water, but food and hygiene packages have also been provided, as well as medicines and aid for the purchase of educational material.
Throughout Spain, the Red Cross has delivered a total of 21,566 aids to nearly 13,600 people, mainly financial and food and hygiene products. Women have also been the ones who have requested the most help, 70 percent of the total.
In the year 2022, the Red Cross has noticed a “general increase” in demands, since it has gone from having 346,000 to more than 447,000 in the past year, coming from more than 340,000 people, which represents an increase of more than 30 percent. hundred.
PLAN REACTS
The institution recalled that the crisis situation has caused many Spanish households to experience difficulties in meeting their most basic needs, especially housing, gas, electricity, food and transport.
Currently, 27.8 percent of the population is at risk of poverty or exclusion in Spain, according to the Arope index, a percentage that rises to 77.8 percent among the population served by the Red Cross.
Faced with this situation, the institution launched an emergency appeal within the framework of the React Plan. The actions of the Red Cross in it are divided between the different needs that people require and the needy with inflation, which, in the case of housing, water and electricity exceeds 900 euros.
Thus, together with food and transport, they constitute the main expenses that groups of people in vulnerable situations have difficulties facing, the Red Cross highlighted in a press release.
In the face of urgent basic needs, the Red Cross Plan Reacts helps provide immediate coverage with the delivery of goods and financial aid, promotes awareness of measures that reduce the level of need or expand the resources of each person to improve their situation.
In addition, it promotes the autonomy of people, so that they lead their own process of change and seeks to be an immediate response with a vocation for lasting transformation, implementing actions that consolidate the changes.
