The Bishopric of Mallorca has been the first institution to respond to the call for help made by the Consell de Mallorca, showing its willingness to collaborate with the cession of space.

This morning the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, and the councillor of Social Welfare, Guillermo Sánchez, met with the Bishop of Mallorca, Mons. Sebastià Taltavull, accompanied by the Vicar General, Mn. Josep Adrover, and the diocesan bursar, Miquel Noguera, to seek ways of cooperation to deal with the migratory crisis that Mallorca is suffering.

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President Galmés has met with the Bishop of Mallorca

This meeting comes after the appeal made by the president of IMAS, Guillermo Sánchez, to different institutions on the island following the latest arrivals of unaccompanied children and adolescents in Mallorca, which have aggravated the crisis on the island.

The president of the Consell thanked the bishopric for its quick response and its willingness to collaborate with the cession of spaces to house these minors. ‘Thanks to the willingness of the bishopric of Mallorca, IMAS is starting today to find spaces to help alleviate, in part, the emergency that has arisen,’ said President Galmés.

For his part, the president of IMAS has declared: ‘The Insular Direction of Centres and Programmes of Integral Attention to Children and Adolescents is already working with the Bishopric of Mallorca to evaluate the spaces that this institution can offer’. He also thanked the Bishopric for its quick response to his appeal.

Similarly, the Bishop of Mallorca has stated: ‘the total willingness of the Bishopric to collaborate with the Consell de Mallorca, not only in the transfer of certain spaces for the accommodation of minors who have arrived, but has also expressed its willingness to continue, beyond, working in coordination with the insular institution to, from church entities, follow up on the needs that these new arrivals may have’. He recalled that ‘one of the most important missions that our church asks of us about migrants is to welcome, protect, promote and integrate’.