The Delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has inaugurated the photographic exhibition "Carers, the invisible heart", which is installed in the North Station of Valencia. This photographic exhibition, promoted by the Gmp Foundation with the support of MIARCO, Brain Damage Valencia and ADIF, pays tribute to the role of caregivers and gives voice and face to 40 real stories.
In that event, the delegate recalled that 88% of non-professional caregivers in Spain are women, “therefore, the exhibition has a female name, because there is and has been a historical debt with all of them. That is the face and the gaze of the women who are fundamentally the protagonists of care in our country and in our society.”
Caregivers, Bernabé said, “require responsible governments.” In this regard, he stressed that “the Government of Spain is committed to dignifying and professionalizing the work of caregivers”.
According to Bernabé, the Government of Spain has approved the preliminary draft reform of the Dependency Law “which updates the previous rule of 2006, eliminates barriers and recognizes new rights”. In addition, “it puts at the center the autonomy, dignity and decision of the person himself, strengthens the coordination of services and also has a view of gender and social justice”. The delegate pointed out that the Central Executive has increased the financing of the system of the unit by 150% since 2020, which already exceeds 783 million euros. The right to contribute non-professional carers and carers “which was eliminated by the PP” has also been recovered. And a State Strategy of Deinstitutionalization has been approved, which “bets on care at home, in the community, in the environment that each person chooses.”
“Caregivers and caregivers sustain the present. They make life possible. And the Government of Spain will continue to be committed to making it visible”, concluded the delegate.