The Generalitat wants to open in May, in Serós, a shelter for stoths that arrive in the province of Lleida without accommodation to work in the fruit campaign. It intends to be open a month before the special host device for passengers in the agricultural campaign of the City of Lleida, in Fira de Lleida, and also served in September, a month after the closing of the capital, which will have a capacity for one hundred people. The new shelter has capacity for forty people and belongs to the mayor of Serós, Josep Antoni Romia (Junts), as explained to La Vanguardia the mayor himself. The proposal is not yet closed. “There is nothing signed, we can reach an agreement. I have spoken with the Generalitat and with the Regional Consell, they were looking for a temporary place for stoths and I had availability one month before the Lleida shelter opened and in September,” Romia explained. Between June and August it is busy with temporary from a fruit company by Josep Antoni Romia. The Minister of Agriculture, Òscar Ordeig, and the delegate of the Government in Lleida, Núria Gil, have announced today at a press conference the opening of a new accommodation on May 1 with 40 places without specifying in which town would be located. They insisted that they had been preparing the fruit campaign since last October, when it ended the previous season. Read also Rosa Matas “you have to put order in the agrarian campaign of Lleida, there are things that cannot continue to function the same and you cannot repeat images of previous years,” said the Minister, in reference to the settlements of vulnerable people. “The challenge and responsibility is of the public administration in general, but also of the different social, economic sectors involved and the whole of citizenship and society,” said Ordeig. In this regard, he said that “material, human, logistics resources will be increased at all levels so that this campaign works as well as possible” and there will also be more labor controls. According to the Minister, the fruit campaign needs in Lleida of 160,000 working days, of which one third is covered with people arrived outside. For its part, the delegate of the Government stressed that the population in the regions of Lleida, and especially in the Segrià, “practically doubles during the months of the agricultural campaign, with the arrival of people in vulnerable situations.“ For the first time – explained – we incorporate 77 dynamizers through the public servei d’O occupació de Catalunya to attend and advise all these people before these people before Campaign. ”The opening of the Mossos d’Esquadra police office will also be advanced in Aitona and the patrol of agents will intensify. The Generalitat has announced the call for aid for investments for the accommodation of temporary workers with an endowment of 1.4 million euros. In the call last year, 200 new positions of accommodation were created in Catalonia.
