Logroño, (EFE).- Cáritas La Rioja directly attended 3,468 people last year and distributed 362,628 euros in financial aid, which was 32 percent more than in 2019, before the pandemic.
The director of Cáritas La Rioja, Fernando Beltrán, has presented the memory of the entity in an informative conference, accompanied by the person in charge of the Social Action area, Caridad Garijo, and the bishop of Calahorra and La Calzada-Logroño, Santos Montoya.
During 2022, Cáritas La Rioja registered 7,171 beneficiaries and computed 30,428 responses, which are the care provided to each of the accompanied people, Beltrán specified.
The profile of the people served is a single-parent family with a child or a foreigner in an irregular situation; who are looking for a stable job, or have a part-time job whose salary does not guarantee being out of poverty.
37% of the beneficiaries were Spanish, 56% non-EU and 7% EU; 59% were women and the age of the majority of those attended was between 25 and 64 years, with 89%.
In the 50 parish groups, 2,366 people were served, 32 less than in 2019, for which reason Beltrán has pointed out that the same structural poverty is maintained, although the economic needs are greater and require a greater effort from Cáritas.