Public Story
Igniting Dignity
It is easy to say, but it is hard to bear. When on 2 October 2020 the lights went out in a large sector of the Cañada Real Galiana, nobody thought that so much time would pass without a response from the administration. Some look the other way because it is not within their competence, others casting over the shadows of a precarious neighborhood the eye of those who only see land for future brick-and-mortar businesses.
The winter holidays - never so winter - and a Christmas party of dull trees and uncooled cider have gone. Filomena seemed to awaken a Madrid population that was more willing to point its criminalizing finger than to empathize with the dramatic situation of the 4,500 people living in sectors 5 and 6 of the Cañada. Especially with those 1,812 minors that not even the intervention of United Nations agencies have been able to protect.
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