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tals and schools in Andalucía so that this material can
be re-used in collaboration projects in Guinea Bissau.
• 144 persons who are cared for at three centres for the
disabled in Madrid receive notification of their transfer
to another centre with 48 hours’ advance notice.
The reason given is safety concerns. Those affected,
however, suspect that the authorities want to privatize
these centres and decide to lock themselves in protest.
• Over 300 dogs have been living tied up for years in a
dog pound in Cantabria.The lack of food and water has
left them severely underweight and they are infested
with parasites.The conditions in which they subsist are
squalid.
• The town of Lorca, 5 months after the ear thquake, is
a desolate place.There are 11 thousand residents who
have lost their homes. They are living with relatives or
paying rent, and at the same time a mor tgage on a
home which no longer exists, having received no help
of any kind from the Town Council.
• Gender-based violence: the experiences of 4 women
who have been the victims of domestic violence.
• Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Geli, a sufferer of Multiple
Chemical Sensitivity, invites the programme to visit
the bubble in which she has lived - completely cut off
from her husband and daughter - for the last five years.
The aim is to get this treatable condition recognized in
Spain, as it has been in other countries.
• The workers at the Las Barranquillas safe-injecting
facility in Madrid fear that the cut-backs will lead to the
closure of this centre for drug addicts, and two rehabili-
tated former heroin addicts describe the dangers that
would result from such action.
• The closure of an old people’s home in Benalmádena,
Malaga, by Unicaja, which decided to close down this
facility without consulting the par ties affected. 4 elderly
people aged over 80 have decided to resist the move
because they regard this place as their home and fear
being moved fur ther away from their families, who visit
them daily.
• “Diario de…” accompanies the “Stop desahucios” anti-
eviction association and witnesses first-hand the state
of anxiety in which the families affected are living.