An action to raise awareness among the Roma community in the social districts of Cruz da Parteira and Cardosas/Mira Cabo, in the municipality of Portimão, was launched yesterday by the Câmara de Portimão.
The aim is to alert people in the Roma community to "the importance of adopting new social behaviors and good practices to contain the spread" of Covid-19.
The action, which will last for the next few days, is mediated by technicians from the social and community intervention project (Re)viver no Meu Bairro, underway in the social neighborhoods of the municipality of Portimão. Visits are supported by PSP.
Informative contents developed by the municipality are being used, taking into account the level of literacy of the target community, with advice on behaviors to adopt in favor of common health in these times of pandemic.
The message goes through the reinforcement of the Health Directorate's recommendations in terms of hygiene, home arrival procedures and others.
But the mediators are still alerting and sensitizing the Roma community to "the risks associated with some common practices in their daily lives, not recommending group trips, whether in trips to the supermarket or hospital, or in the case of those lives in tents and has the habit of using public bathhouses simultaneously with several people from the same household».
The campaign is not only aimed at the gypsy community that lives in the social neighbourhoods, as it is also taking place in the clusters of tents that still exist in various parts of the municipality.
The goal is always the same: to make residents aware of the measures aimed at curbing contagion by Covid-19.
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