The Benalmádena Town Hall has held the event 'How to Strengthen Your Association' with the social entities of the municipality. Councillor Áurea Peralta highlighted that associations reach where the administration cannot always go.
The Social Welfare and Families department of the Benalmádena Town Hall organised the participation day 'How to Strengthen Your Association', a meeting with the social entities of the municipality to exchange experiences, analyse the challenges they face, and develop joint proposals.
The Councillor for Social Welfare and Families, Áurea Peralta, and the Councillor for Citizen Participation, María Luisa Robles, attended the meeting along with the technical team from the department. Peralta thanked the representatives of the associations for dedicating the morning to sharing their experiences, raising difficulties, and contributing ideas.
“Benalmádena has an extraordinarily important associative fabric. Our associations are close to people every day, they know many of their needs firsthand, and they often reach places where the administrations cannot always go,” Peralta highlighted.
The councillor explained that the aim of the initiative is for the entities themselves to be the protagonists of the meeting. “We do not want to limit ourselves to telling what we think or do from the Town Hall. We want to listen to the associations, understand the problems and difficulties they share, debate them, and identify together how we can advance to strengthen them,” she stated.
During the event, emphasis was placed on dialogue and reflection to identify common challenges and seek points of agreement. Peralta argued that “a city also progresses when it is capable of generating spaces to listen to each other and share different opinions.”
The contributions gathered will be translated into conclusions, proposals, and recommendations built from the knowledge and daily experience of the social entities in the municipality.
“Strengthening our associations also means strengthening Benalmádena, improving our social cohesion, and increasing our capacity to care for and support people,” concluded Áurea Peralta.
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