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Starting tomorrow, Thursday, March 6, appointments will be made available to citizens for processing new registrations and changes of address, through the electronic headquarters of the Torrevieja City Council.

In this way, the center will be used as a family meeting point, a residence for people with functional diversity and a residence for functional diversity for children and adolescents.

The Councilor for the Environment of the Torrevieja City Council, Antonio Vidal, together with the Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, the director-conservator of the Lagunas de La Mata-Torrevieja Natural Park, Francisco Martínez, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz , have presented this morning the planting and regeneration activities that will be carried out on the occasion of the celebration of Tree Day 2024. Some actions that will take place on January 31 and February 1, for schoolchildren from all centers Torrevieja schools.

It should be noted that in just seven months, from January to July 2023, a total of 1,168 Ukrainians have been registered in the city, mainly due to the Russian invasion in this country, which began in February 2022.

It will include an economic feasibility study that serves as motivation for the decision to protect, rehabilitate and exploit the old facilities of the salt industry as tourist use with therapeutic-cultural-educational and recreational activities.

The Councilor for Innovation and Modernization of the Local Administration, Ricardo Recuero, and the Councilor for Census and Statistics, Inmaculada Montesinos, have announced this morning the start-up starting this week of the Automation of the Municipal Register.

After the two countries of the extinct USSR and the United Kingdom are Colombian residents (3,139), who for the second consecutive year are ahead of the stable and historic Moroccan population (2,262), followed by Romanians (1,481), Bulgarians (1,432), Swedes (1,402), Belgians (1,236), Italians (1,079) and Germans (1,031)

The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers of the Torrevieja City Council, Concha Sala, informs of the start of the “Healthy Smiles” campaign, which is being launched by the Association of Families to Help Saharawi Children (FANS) in collaboration with this council. The objective of the campaign is to send dental hygiene products, such as toothbrushes and toothpaste, to the Saharawi refugee camps.

AGAMED launched an initiative at the end of last year to help the most vulnerable groups and promote sustainability among citizens. Thus, it promised to donate 1 euro for each customer who requested the digital invoice. This month has concluded this campaign in which more than €2,000 have been raised that will go to the local NGO Solidarity Food.

Representatives of 22 local NGOs have participated in a meeting convened by the Torrevieja City Council to coordinate the reception of humanitarian aid that is going to be sent to the Ukrainian people, who are suffering from the current armed conflict. The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, together with the councilors of International Residents, Gitte Lund; of Citizen Participation, Inmaculada Montesinos and Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, has announced that the City Council is going to provide a place in which the arrival of all the material that is delivered for this purpose will be centralized and that it will be attended by volunteers from the different NGOs ´s of Torrevieja.

The team of researchers from the University of Alicante, led by Professor Rosa María Martínez Espinosa, is studying the use of halophilic microorganisms to clean contaminated water and brines before they are returned to the sea. Microorganisms consume these contaminants as food and make them disappear. At the same time, they create a biomass that can be used to make bioplastics. A raw material that can replace polluting plastics.

The Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE), with the support of NaturGreen and under the direction of the Department of the Environment of the City Council of Torrevieja, directed by Antonio Vidal, has been advancing in the recovery of the plant formations of the Municipal Natural Park Molino del Water in La Mata. During the 2022 campaign, the implantation of 500 seedlings of dune species is planned in order to improve the vegetation cover and recover threatened species or species that became extinct in the province of Alicante.