A total of 19,899 people are identified in Miranda state by the Brigades for Comprehensive Care for Grandparents and Grandmothers of the Homeland, Mayerling Oropeza, the entity's coordinating secretary for Good Living and Social Protection, said Monday.

During a deployment in Campo Rico, Sucre municipality of the Mirandina entity, he specified that so far some 432 brigade members have been incorporated from the different social missions, ministries, government offices, mayors and other entities, who will help with this initiative announced by the president in charge Delcy Rodríguez on April 30, and which seeks to optimize health, food and social protection services for older adults, especially those who are in a situation of vulnerability.

“It's a very nice job that we've been doing, to take care of our grandparents and grandmothers in the country who need that helping hand to meet their needs,” said Oropeza.

For her part, Georgeana Páez, Secretary for Older Adults of Miranda State, reiterated that since last weekend these brigades have been deployed in the territory to guarantee comprehensive care for grandparents and grandmothers, in areas such as health, food, recreation and social support, in a process that “contemplates the characterization of those who are in a situation of greater vulnerability, to offer progressive responses from each community space”.

“We want to broaden our horizons so that all the grandparents and grandmothers in our territory are on this national registry, without a doubt, a mission that allows us as soldiers to continue to advance in the social care of those who need us most,” he remarked.

He recalled that in Miranda there are 3,981 Grandparents' Circles, spaces that provide permanent food, health, cultural and recreational activities, training, among others.

During the closing of the Great National Pilgrimage United for a Venezuela without Sanctions and in Peace, last Thursday in Caracas, the president in charge Delcy Rodríguez explained that these brigades will go house to house to assist older adults, “the most affected by sanctions.”

“As we did with COVID, we go house to house to seek the most felt needs of our grandparents and grandmothers,” Rodríguez stressed, while announcing the strengthening of existing social care policies in several areas.

The Comprehensive Care Brigades for Grandparents and Grandmothers of the Homeland are made up of representatives of the Somos Venezuela Movement, the National Institute of Nutrition (INN), doctors from the Barrio Adentro Mission, the José Gregorio Hernández Mission and the innovative volunteer Grandchildren and Granddaughters of the Homeland, belonging to the Great Venezuela Youth Mission.

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