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The Minister of Family and Equality of Opportunities, Violante Tomás, the mayor of Las Torres de Cotillas, Isabel Maria Zapata, and the president of the Association of Families and Mental Illness of Murcia (AFES), María Teresa Martínez, opened today Friday 19 October the new housing supervised by this association in the Torreño municipality.
An accommodation where a small number of people with chronic mental illness coexist autonomously, with the support of qualified personnel that promotes the development of basic daily life skills.
"This program seeks to provide a resource for accommodation, coexistence and support as normalized as possible to facilitate, in the best conditions of comfort and quality of life, the insertion of users," explains Zapata, who recalls that AFES has in the municipality facilities in which they have a day and residence center.
"The people with mental illness who go through these sheltered homes of Las Torres de Cotillas are promoting with effort and in a very brave way their right to self-care," says Tomás, whose Ministry finances AFES with about 1,700,000 euros. to 159 places in residences, day centers and sheltered homes in Murcia and Las Torres de Cotillas.
"Our goal is to improve the quality of life of people with mental illness and reach a greater number of people, giving them the visibility and autonomy they deserve within our society," explains the counselor.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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