Councilor for Social Welfare, Pepa Sivera, He confirmed that the Department of Social Welfare will undertake the construction of a day center for people with physical and intellectual disabilities in the region next to the current Occupational Center La Xara.
These currently being developed technical project to make the specifications of the tender for the construction of the building and is scheduled to commence in the spring of next year.
Sivera has advanced that the facilities will occupy approximately 400 square meters of the total plot, located in the Benimaquia de La Xara, and will share the kitchen with the Occupational Center managed by the Aprosdeco association. The day center will have capacity for about forty users.
Councilwoman appreciates "very positively" the news "because it is a much needed service for people with disabilities and their families", Although he has remarked that"our main priority is to continue working so that the project of the health-related area of La Pedrera". This project involves the construction of a Specific Center for the Mentally Ill (CEES), a home for mentally handicapped severely affected and a day center.
The construction project for this respite center in La Xara was presented a few weeks ago by the regional secretary for Dependency, Manuel Escolano, and the general director of Persons with Disabilities, Pilar Collado, to the Platform in Defense of the Dependency Law for the Marina Alta and to the associations for the disabled in the region.
