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for people ready to help, either dedicating their time and knowledge to people affected by cancer or donating money to help them. For more information call (+34) 659 887 455. To watch the short film head over to the website www.cancersupportmal lorca.com.
CSG: Was founded to offer help to people and their families.
ed film created by Philip Rogan and Aline Win dolphNahar explains how residents from
ALLERGY sufferers will know how debilitating severe aller gies can be. Those who suffer will welcome the first public al lergy clinic in Mallorca which has been planned for 2023. The International Symposium of the Spanish Society of Aller gology and Clinical Immunology (SEAIC), was held at the end of October at the Palma Congress Centre, and gathered more than 1,500 specialists together. Under the motto ‘Person alised Allergology: Im munotherapy and Drug Aller gy’, the scientific event aimed to address the new advances and challenges in these two highly relevant areas. The president of the SEAIC, Doctor Antonio Valero, pointed
Funky furniture WHILST wandering around Placa Orson Welles you may have noticed the furniture has been upgraded. A group of pupils from Son Gotleu Primary School were given the project to paint the urban furniture. The mayor of Palma, Jose Hila, stated that “this artistic initiative builds community and promotes dia logue and participation among young people. “One of the most remarkable aspects of the project was the participation of the pupils. The pupils met in October in Placa Orson Welles and carried out an analysis of the state of the area. At the beginning of the programme, dynamic and participative activities were organised, with meetings between the pupils, which served to bring the young people of the neigh bourhood face to face with the themes and aesthetics of artistic creations related to urban furniture.” The councillor for Culture, Miquel Angel Contreras, added “the project wants the young people of Son Gotleu to bring their creativity to the reality of the neighbourhood, and to improve the selfperception they have of the place where they live.”
abroad can get economic and bureaucratic support on the island. CSG is always looking
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WHAT happens if you live on the island, and you are told you have cancer, but you do not speak or un derstand Spanish well? Apart from the distress caused by the news, you could struggle to deal with treatment options, social security, and insur ances, making funeral plans, sorting out legal papers and so on. The Cancer Support Group Mallorca (CSG) was founded in order to offer help to those people and their families. The Group has now launched a short video to present its Bridging Fund to help expatriates affect ed by cancer. The animat
Image: Cancer Support fundraisers.
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out, “the public health system needs to have allergy services in all the country. For this rea son, we’re happy that the Balearic government will cre ate the first public allergology service on the islands next year.” This year, the SEAIC will also carry out an environmental im pact initiative, which will con sist of planting a tree for each congress attendee in an area of Galicia deforested by recent fires and which also pursues the objective of improving air quality , thereby contributing to better respiratory health.
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Urban furniture painted.