Calpe Town Council has completed the administrative procedures to allocate €120,000 from the 2024 municipal budget to victims of the DANA flood in Valencia. These funds come from the Protocol and Advertising budget for the previous financial year.
To carry out this initiative, it was necessary to make a budgetary credit modification to allocate the amount of €120,000 to aid for the affected populations and to submit the modification file to the Local Government Board for processing.
The aid will be paid into the bank account of the Treasury of the Valencian Regional Government set up for this purpose. As established in Decree Law 11/2024 of 12 November of the Regional Council, these donations will generate credit in the Regional Government's budget, in accordance with the nature of the actions to which they are allocated.
The income from these donations will be used to cover expenses arising from the DANA flood, such as aid to private individuals or legal entities who have suffered damage to their property or rights, repair of damaged infrastructure, supplies, materials, and any other expenses that may contribute to strengthening recovery and a return to normality in the affected municipalities.
This financial aid is in addition to the solidarity campaign to collect products and food carried out by Calpe Town Council, thanks to which 40 trucks of urgent humanitarian aid were sent to Valencia. In addition, the Town Council sent personnel, vehicles, machinery and safety and emergency equipment to the affected areas.
Civil Protection personnel from Calpe, local police officers and municipal general services workers travelled to the municipalities affected by the DANA flood to help with the clean-up, along with vehicles and workers from Acciona, the local cleaning service contractor, and Aguas de Calpe.
In addition, various private initiatives have been organised in Calpe to help those affected by the DANA, such as the Calpe Music Festival for the DANA, which raised €6,620 for the Catarroja Music Union and La Unión Musical La Artesana de Catarroja, and the Solidarity Art Exhibition for the DANA.