- It will be held next Wednesday July 9, at 10am at El Puig Building, and it will try to provide useful tools such as the WhatsApp channel of the Council to keep informed about the resources of the municipality.
The Council of El Poble Nou de Benitatxell, through the Councillorship of the Elderly People, Health and Social Services, has organised an informative talk with a practical workshop addressed to international residents next Wednesday July 9th. The objective is to provide the foreign population with useful information about the municipality and the services to which they have access. It will take place at 10am at El Puig Building (Civil Protection headquarters, opposite Lady Elizabeth School).
Called ‘Conéctate en tu pueblo (‘Get connected to your town”), this is an activity especially designed for foreign residents and is born out of the need to tackle the digital division that especially affects elderly people who live outside the town centre.
Through information of interest and the Council’s WhatsApp channel, a tool that allows you to receive important information about the municipality – such as news from the medical centre and others, activities, alerts and much more – and which can be configured in Valencian, Spanish and English, the idea is to help break not only the digital division, but also the language barrier. WhatsApp currently has more than 1,500 users, 643 of them with the channel set up in Spanish, 233 in Valencian and 639 in English.
With the joint effort of the councillors, the technical staff of the Communication and IT departments, and volunteers from the different urbanisations such as Margaret Hales, this tool will reach many more people.
“We want to encourage people, if they know elderly people or foreign residents who do not yet know the WhatsApp channel of the Council, to invite them to come to the workshop next Wednesday. They will learn how this tool works, how they can set it up and how to be more connected with the town,” said the councillor of the area, Isa Garrido.