Accompanying this important reunion of the elderly, was the mayor Fernando Cotillo together with the secretary of General Coordination Juan Carlos Gómez, the secretaries of Social Development Elizabeth Pintos and of Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Sandra Díaz, and the councilor Paola Álvarez.
In this context, the municipal mayor highlighted the implementation of these initiatives that after a long period allow the reunion of the elderly and valued the task of the area in order to address the needs of this sector of the population with programs to accompany them, take them to different places, attend them and promote meetings to share their life experiences and learn from them.
“This is an area where we dedicate ourselves more to relaxation with leisure spaces where they can have these reunions, that is the fundamental mission,” he said.
Likewise, the supervisor of Social Equity Miriam del Hoyo, pointed out that the objective was that all those who attend from the area could participate on the occasion of remembering the International Day of the Elderly that took place on October 1 and announced that These proposals will continue now that the health situation allows it.
“They are all very happy from the first moment that we began to call them, they were locked up for a long time by the pandemic and this is a way that they can recreate and begin to leave,” he said.
For her part, the head of the Social Development portfolio Elizabeth Pintos highlighted the accompaniment of the elderly, both in pandemic where they have been a priority, and now, through this proposal to bring them together and celebrate life.
“It is the idea of this area that is the Elderly and that we prioritize and assist, whether in a pandemic when we have had to assist them by phone, take them to be treated in the hospital, take a shift, many times psychologists have worked by phone because we know that they had been depressed, and now our priority was to see how we entertained them who are so important to the community ”.
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