The foreign residents of the town continue doing solidary actions and during the last weekend were held two events of this group related with the support to needy people and to the welfare of the community of Mazarrón. In both events attended the Mayor of  Mazarrón, Ginés Campillo, accompanied, in the first of them, by the councilor for Foreign Residents, Jose Gómez, the councilor Mª Celeste Soria and the district Mayor of El Saladillo, José Andrés Navarro; and by the councilor for Celebrations, Isidro Coy, in the second one.

In the first  place, the last Friday were given  1.400 euros to a family of Mazarrón whose son suffers a disease qualified as ‘rare’ that impedes him to move with normality. Of the total of the help given, the ‘Iglesia Ecuménica San Nicolás’ has contributed 1.000 euros, while that ‘Protection and Life Saving’ (PALS) has provided the 400 euros remaining. The deacon of this church, Bill Coyle, who was present in the event stated after it that “our work is to support and serve to the community and we feel very glad  to be able to have helped in this cause”. With the money, the family could to cope to the purchase of a special walker frame for the child, and they showed “eternally grateful”.

Also, on Saturday afternoon the radio station ‘Costa Cálida International Radio’ organized with ‘PALS’ a party to collect benefits, to cover the economic contribution that this association has realized with the purchase of a new ambulance for the town. The party was held next to the promenade of the Castellar in Puerto de Mazarrón and had the collaboration of the Town Hall of Mazarrón, through the councils of Celebrations and Services and Logistic, and ‘Playa Grande’ hotel.

During the party, The Mayor thanked to the foreign residents “their implication and inestimable help to improve the health services in the town” which have not been reduced thanks to the purchase of the new ambulance of which the town hall disposes who has ceded it to  ‘Red Cross Mazarrón’. Ginés Campillo has highlighted “the important solidary work that this group develops in the town, joining to the solidarity that are showing the rest of citizens who are actively participating in other initiatives directed to support to organizations like  ‘Caritas’ de Mazarrón and Puerto”.