By Tara Rippin • Published: 13 Apr 2020 • 9:22
WORKSHOP: Volunteers make 800 protective gowns a day for hospitals across Spain. CREDIT: Ayuntamiento de Alfaz del Pi
Alfaz del Pi Town Council has made available the Casa de Culture cafeteria to the group, ‘Business Meetings,’ whose members have turned it into a factory to do their bit in the fight against Covid-19.
Group member Silvio Monroy, a shopkeeper from Alfaz, has been in charge of recruiting volunteers from his own town as well as Callosa d’en Sarria, Calpe, Altea and Benidorm.
He said: “The only reason there are no more people working in this process is because at this time we do not have capacity for more.”
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Tara Rippin is a reporter for Spain’s largest English-speaking newspaper, Euro Weekly News, and is responsible for the Costa Blanca region. She has been in journalism for more than 20 years, having worked for local newspapers in the Midlands, UK, before relocating to Spain in 1990. Since arriving, the mother-of-one has made her home on the Costa Blanca, while spending 18 months at the EWN head office in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. She loves being part of a community that has a wonderful expat and Spanish mix, and strives to bring the latest and most relevant news to EWN’s loyal and valued readers.
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