A party at the Ermita de Sanz will raise funds this Saturday to collaborate with solidarity projects in Chimbote

The Hermitage of Sanz will show the most supportive side of Benidorm this Saturday to celebrate a charity party organized by the priest Jaume Benaloy that will serve to raise funds with which to develop different projects in Chimbote, Peru, where this priest from Benidorm has been a missionary for a long time, fifteen years old.

Likewise, in this event there will also be the presentation of the City Medal that the City Council awarded to the priest last December, coinciding with the institutional ceremony of Constitution Day, in recognition of his dedication to others and his fight to improve the quality of life of people and the environment.

Mayor Toni Pérez participated this Thursday in the presentation of the event along with Benaloy himself and the rest of its organizers: Luis Vañó, president of the Benidorm-Chimbote Solidarity Association (ASBECH); Rosa Picó, from Manos Unidas Benidorm; Pepita Orozco, from Cáritas Parish of San Jaime and Santa Ana; Juan Ángel Ferrer, president of the Rotary Club Benidorm; Juanjo Galiana, from the Lions Club; and Paquita Benaloy, from Anémona-Marina Baixa; with whom the Missions Group of the Virgen del Carmen parish also collaborates.

During this event, the first mayor highlighted “Father Benaloy's effort” to “bring together so many people and so many representations” and make this solidarity party “a unique opportunity to contribute to generate a benefit to collaborate with the Asilo San José de Casma and the Cáritas Juvenil project in the parish of Santo Toribio de Chimbote, in Peru.”

Specifically, Jaume Benaloy has announced that the funds raised will be for two different projects. Regarding the Casma Asylum, the priest explained that it is an institution that provides shelter to a hundred abandoned and homeless elderly people, with which ASBECH has since its foundation "the commitment to guarantee milk and bread of these people throughout the year.” Other projects promoted by Benidorm are also added to this commitment, such as the one recently developed by the Rotary Club of Benidorm to improve some of its facilities. “Our collaboration will help these elderly people live and die with dignity because those who enter there normally end up dying there,” added the priest.

For his part, the president of ASBECH, was a few days ago in Chimbote working on the land, and delved into this idea, explaining that many elderly people who reside in this senior home “are people in poor condition, without memory, who are abandoned” by their families in the next town because they do not have enough to feed them, and take them to San José de Casma so that they can spend their last years of life there in the best possible way.”

The second program to which the funds raised will be allocated will be Cáritas Juvenil of the parish of Santo Toribio, the parish of Chimbote directed by Jaume Benaloy, where a school reinforcement and nutrition project for children and adolescents will be developed. “This year we have recovered a soup kitchen that was in the parish but that was not being used and now, in addition, we are going to build a library that will be called the Virgen del Sufragio Library so that the imprint of Benidorm and our patron saint remains there”, the priest has related.

The solidarity party will begin at 12:45 p.m., with a thanksgiving mass in the Plaza de la Ermita de Sanz. Subsequently, the Corporate Medal presentation ceremony will take place and, finally, a meal will be offered to all attendees, the entrance fee is 25 euros. You can also collaborate through 'row 0' for people who cannot physically attend but want to contribute their grain of sand to both projects.

The mayor has invited all citizens to “participate in one way or another in this initiative, which is food for the heart and soul” and thanked all the promoters of this solidarity festival, especially Jaume Benaloy and ASBECH, for their work, “for helping those who have nothing more than our solidarity.”