Africa-Press – Cape verde. With strong mobilization of the population, a group of citizens, managed to collect a large part of food to offer to firefighters, national police and ordinary citizens who have been fighting the fire in Serra da Malagueta, since the 1st of April.
A group of citizens delivered to the municipal fire station of Tarrafal de Santiago, a set of food kits that will be offered to all agents and volunteers who are fighting the fire on several fronts in Serra Malagueta.
Heard by this newspaper, Olavo Cabral, one of the mentors of the initiative, advances that he and “the friend Adalberto Varela and Dário Varela, an emigrant who is in America, took the initiative to look for food kits to take to Serra Malagueta”.
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Also, as he explains, they had the strong collaboration of teachers and ordinary people who came together to help them.
The initiative also relied on strong mobilization on social networks and, as it reveals, had a “positive effect”, because, in addition to taking food kits, they were there to monitor and inform people about the real situation. experienced situation
It is recalled that due to the fire 9 people lost their lives. Eight soldiers and a technician from the Serra Malagueta perimeter.
Cape Verde begins two days of national mourning today.
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