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Bay radio Bay radio I'm pleased to be
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joined Now by Pablo and Sarah from the
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Red Cross who are on the line with us
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today good afternoon Pablo and Sarah uh
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how are you doing today hi thank you for
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giving this space to Red Cross you're
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very welcome indeed um perhaps you can
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outline just a little bit about what
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you've been dealing with over the last
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few days how have the jaier Red Cross
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been involved oh yeah all the
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devastating floods in the Southeast
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Spain are living a tragic balance of
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people dead thousands of families
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affected and um Red Cross has been
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responding for the first minute
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mobilizing uh specialist volunteers from
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the emergency unit these are people
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especially trained along the whole year
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to have a a response capacity of less
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than five hours in case of these cases
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of disasters this is one of the
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strengths of uh Red Cross so thanks to
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these specialist volunteers we've been
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mobilizing all available and necessary
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resources temporary accommodation um
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psychological assistance and
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distribution of Aid it is a very
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difficult situation on the ground we've
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all seen the pictures on the TV like a
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tsunami or like a hurricane the floods
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of water just devastating those areas
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how difficult is it to actually help
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people we can see that a number of areas
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are very hard to get to well definitely
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is is a very difficult task but we are
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well coordinated with the rest of
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agencies and agents that are um working
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in this emergency so uh thanks to this
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coordination uh the work is well
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organized and uh every day we kind we we
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try to address more and more necessities
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ground you said there are good
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Communications there the the relief
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effort then is is certainly kicked in
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and going well that obviously it's taken
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a little bit of time for uh everything
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to get off and running and I know that
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it's the immediate people that you're
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dealing with Communications are great
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but across the area I guess you're
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working in isolation a lot of the time
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on exactly your situation and and not
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really getting an idea of the bigger
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picture although I suppose that you can
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imagine the devastation is the same
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pretty much everywhere else where other
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people are working well there are more
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affected areas and less affected areas
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at this moment Red Cross is focusing on
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the most affected areas where access is
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very difficult and where um people are
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um have the most um compelling needs uh
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these places are for instance torent or
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um alas um so we are focusing
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specifically in these areas but as soon
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as these um um the the events will
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unfold we will eventually what sort of
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numbers of people are you having to get
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into shelter bigger efforts in in other
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areas how many people are we talking
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about we have a one shelter more or less
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1,000 people okay that's quite a lot of
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of people to deal with we've been seeing
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some collections going on in various
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different parts of Spain and uh people
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trying to help in various different ways
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we we understand that um there are a
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coordinated uh uh effort of people who
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are actually being able to uh come in
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and start to help with the cleanup of
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the operation but what is it that the
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Red Cross uh in Javier need right now
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how can people help you directly oh
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thank you for asking yes definitely Red
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Cross uh needs a lot of help in this and
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the most effective thing is uh Financial
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uh support for the organization so in
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each mement we can transform money into
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uh um uh food or um tools or anything
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that is needed in each moment of uh of
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the evacuation and post disaster um
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assessment and and dealing so uh we have
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uh different channels for people to help
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a Red Cross in this effort one is
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through the telephone calling
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971 or even through b Zoom uh to uh
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33512 and there is also an SMS um a
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channel uh that you can send an SMS with
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the word Auda to the number
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3892 these are all channels that can
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really help Red Cross to transform uh
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their support in uh anything that is
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need and I'm hoping then that um that
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effort or that Aid will get to you
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immedi medely in help with the uh
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situation you're in right now uh it must
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be very tiring for the Red Cross and the
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people that are helping you how how
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difficult is it to get breaks and to to
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find a little bit of time to relax well
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definitely uh there are uh turns for the
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volunteers so they are they can uh work
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and uh they stay in uh in the ground 2
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24 hours and then they have uh change
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for other volunteers fortunately there
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are a lot of these people trained and
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prepared to uh collaborate with the CR
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Ross um Red Cross so uh definitely it is
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difficult but uh it's not in insinuating
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well we really appreciate all the work
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that the Red Cross and all of the other
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volunteers and emergency services are
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giving to the community and uh thank you
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very much indeed for finding the time to
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talk to us today uh and our best wishes
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go to all the team Sarah and Pablo I
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thank you very much for your time thank
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you very much and thanks for helping us
