Algarve Situation Report 16th May 2020 – from our colleague reporting on the Algarve
Loulé City Council and the Regional Tourism Algarve promote Treasury Support Lines
The Loulé City Council and the Regional Tourism Algarve will promote next Monday, May 18, at 4:30 pm, a session on Treasury Support Lines.
According to the Municipality, the initiative is aimed at micro-companies (up to 9 workers) and individual entrepreneurs linked to the Tourism sector, in areas such as accommodation, restaurants and drinks, car rental, travel agencies, tourist entertainment activities and others.
The intention is essentially to clarify the interested parties about this measure created by Turismo de Portugal to ensure the increased working capital needs of tourism micro-enterprises and, thus, to mitigate the economic impact caused by the pandemic.
The layoff, IEFP measures, the “Clean & Safe” seal or the new scholarship for lost funds to support the reopening of establishments will be some of the themes addressed in this clarification session.
In the Algarve region, in particular in the municipality of Loulé, where tourist activity has a greater weight, clarifications to businessmen about this initiative become “of special importance to face the economic problems caused by COVID-19”.
The session, which can be followed through the digital platform ZOOM, will count on the interventions of the presidents of the Algarve Tourism Region, João Fernandes, and the Municipality of Loulé, Vítor Aleixo.
Registration is free but has a limited number of participants and can be made through the email gae@cm-loule.pt, with the name of the participant, email and company.
It will also be possible to watch the session on the Facebook page of the Municipality of Loulé https://www.facebook.com/municipiodeloule/
Silves Rural Fire Prevention
The Forest Sappers in the Municipality of Silves will start the usual rural fire surveillance work, as planned.
This intervention will focus mainly on the parishes of São Bartolomeu de Messines and São Marcos da Serra, defined as priorities in the scope of the Defence of the Forest against Fires (DECEIR), the municipality announced in a statement, also highlighting the role of Sapadores in the decontamination of public roads, in view of the contingencies created by COVID-19.
According to the same document, the Municipality says that a team of Forest Sappers from the Parish Council of São Bartolomeu de Messines is in training, participating in the surveillance of rural fires, “increasing the number of teams with this type in the municipality to three”.
Phased re-opening of Library services
After the state of emergency is over, the various sectors of society are resuming their activities. Libraries are no exception. BIBAL – Inter-municipal Network of Libraries in the Algarve is now starting to reopen their libraries in a phased manner.
According to a statement from AMAL, Algarve Inter-municipal Community, for the definition of procedures to be followed in libraries, the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries produced a document with recommendations, based on the legislation in force, on the directives of the Directorate-General Health and specialized bibliography.
In the course of the state of emergency, some libraries in the Algarve created the take-away service for loaning documents that now, gradually, has been adopted by others. Depending on local constraints, this service will be resumed in all libraries, but always subject to the use of a mask and hygiene measures. Subsequently, and always considering the conditions of evolution of the pandemic, the services of the Libraries will, in stages, be extended, always respecting all the safety measures that guarantee the health of those who work and those who go to this equipment.
The Network, which integrates 25 municipal libraries, 3 itinerant libraries and 3 university libraries, aims at cooperation between different entities, aiming at the development of network services.
MOJU gives life to community garden project from home
In the context of an application to the Generation Z program of the Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth is running the project “Plant 1 Donate + 1″which aims to bring together young volunteers from the municipality of Olhão and the surrounding area to host mini community gardens at home.
The project starts on June 1 and ends on July 21, mostly in an online format, which is one of the priorities of the IPDJ, together with the promotion of civic participation.
The registration for the “Plant 1 +1 Donate” is open on the site: https://programas.juventude.gov.pt/geracaoz/acoes/detalhe for young people from 14 to 30 years until May 22.