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The City Council is reinforcing security and healthcare services in response to the high influx of visitors.

The works to be carried out on the 6 buildings included in this area, in addition to addressing the structural damage to these housing blocks, aim for an energy improvement of between 45% and 60%.

The Torrevieja City Council, through the Department of Equality and Women headed by Inmaculada Montesinos, joins the events of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is commemorated on November 25.

It has received an investment of 1,350,000 euros, in a collaboration between the Valencian Regional Government, the Torrevieja City Council and the ADIEM Foundation. The mayor has announced that in 2026, alongside these new facilities, construction will begin on a residence for people with extreme support needs.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, reports that the Torrevieja City Council, through the Department of NGOs and Volunteering, and once the bidding process has concluded, has provisionally awarded the contract to the company Francisco M. Juárez Pozuelo for the drafting of the basic and execution project, the health and safety plan and the waste management plan for the construction of the new Day Centre for people with Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases "Tomás Ballester Herrera".

This extension of the deadline is due to the fact that it has been detected that there is a planning plan of the Partial Plan "La Hoya" that allows the maximum height of buildings for the VPP plots owned by the City Council in 5 heights (Ground Floor + 4 floors)

TM Grupo Inmobiliario will provide a donation of 20,000 euros for the payment of the rent, in whole or in part, of the selected family units, which will be managed by the Red Cross in coordination with the social services 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 future building will also have training classrooms, a university study room and multipurpose rooms, as well as the Office of the Department of Commerce, the Office of the Open Urban Shopping Center, the premises of the Local Development Agency (ADL) and its classrooms. specific for training and spaces to promote employment, in addition to creating multipurpose spaces for young people on the third floor (concert halls, rehearsals and/or meetings of youth associations)

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.

Presented the business meeting "Gastronomy, tourism and agriculture of the Vega Baja: business opportunities and challenges", which is part of the "Focus SMEs and Entrepreneurship Vega Baja 22" program, and aims to promote the socioeconomic development of the Vega Baja of Safe through gastronomy and agriculture linked to tourist activity. The presentation of the meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, November 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in the Torrevieja CdT, has been given by Domingo Paredes, Councilor for Development and Employment of the Torrevieja City Council; Joaquín Alcázar, Director of the European Center for Business and Innovation in Elche (CEEI); Rosa Fernández, manager of CONVEGA; and the Vice Mayor and Councilor for Tourism, Rosario Martínez. ATTACHED PROGRAM OF THE MEETING.

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 Urban Cleanliness councilor of the Torrevieja City Council, Carmen Gómez, reports the removal of 260 tons of rubble and garbage in the openings located in the vicinity of the Torrevieja International Auditorium during this last week.

The Councilor for Infrastructure, Sandra Sánchez, and the Councilor for Mobility, Federico Alarcón, attended a new edition of Trafic last Tuesday, November 2, under the slogan "Connect to urban mobility", in which the focus on the Strategy for Safe, Sustainable and Connected Mobility 2030, according to the objectives set by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, MITMA, and the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, MITERD.

The Torrevieja City Council has already acquired the autonomous coffin lifting platform, which was awarded to the Zaragoza company MARCO TALLER CERRAJERÍA SL, for a global amount of 27,588 euros (VAT included).