2024-05-22 11:41:18
The social and spa tourism program addressed to the beneficiaries of the Rural Residence Account (LAE), yr 2024 and applied by the Ministry of Social Cohesion and Household, by means of OPECA, can be expanded.
On the similar time, based on the ministry, 5 extra packages can be run, kids’s camps, distribution of theater tickets, provision of free books and grant of an quantity from 1,000 to 700 euros to peasant moms with 3 or extra kids.
125,000 beneficiaries
The entire variety of beneficiaries exceeds 125,000 and the price range of all packages quantities to fifteen million euros.
These within the packages of the Rural Middle will be capable to submit the related purposes for participation within the KEPs of the entire nation and on the Group’s web site www.opeka.gr
What adjustments within the packages
For the primary time, all of the beneficiaries are included within the Spa Tourism program, i.e. the insured farmers. Till not too long ago, solely pensioners had been beneficiaries.
Following the requirements of this system adopted in North Evia and the islands of the North and South Aegean, the social and thermal tourism program will function within the Regional Unit of Evros.
Extra days, zero participation for beneficiaries to help the area.
Specifically, those that select the realm of Evros may have the choice of an extended trip, as much as 11 days (10 nights).
For Evros there can be a subsidy of the total value of lodging with zero participation of the beneficiaries as was the case final yr for the islands of the North and South Aegean.
The packages for 2024
Social Tourism – 50,000 Beneficiaries
This system gives 6-day (5-night) holidays to 50,000 beneficiaries. The interval of validity is from July 10, 2024 to Could 30, 2025. For the primary time, this system considerations all beneficiaries and never solely pensioners.
Specifically, for the Regional Unit of Evros, North Evia and the islands of the North and South Aegean Areas, the next apply intimately:
Beneficiaries of the social and spa tourism packages who select to make use of their vouchers in vacationer lodging contracted with LAE/OPEKA of the Municipalities of Istiaea – Edipsos and Mantoudi – Limni – Agia Anna, the Regional Unit of Evia and the Regional Unit of Evros are entitled to holidays as much as eleven (11) days, i.e. for ten (10) nights.
Beneficiaries of the social and spa tourism packages who will select locations within the Evros Regional Unit and the islands of the North and South Aegean Areas, will spend their holidays with none extra monetary burden of lodging.
4-day journeys for 12,500 beneficiaries
It considerations 4 (4) day journeys for 12,500 beneficiaries and all the time with contracted vacationer businesses. These will be capable to make use of this program from July 10, 2024 to Could 30, 2025.
Youngsters’s camps 16 days of holidays for 1500 kids
It considerations a 16-day program for 1,500 kids who’re beneficiaries of the Rural Residence.
Within the backed camp program and within the occasion {that a} lottery is held if a bigger variety of beneficiaries emerges, kids with a incapacity of greater than 50% are excluded from the lottery and take part as a matter of precedence.
The kids’s camp program is legitimate from: 22-6-2024 to: a) 31-08-2024 (ultimate date of departure from the camp) for kids of typical growth and b) 10-9-2024 (ultimate date of departure from the camp) for kids with disabilities with a share of fifty% or extra.
Is adressed to:
kids aged 6 to 16, who’re kids of pensioners or insured individuals of e-EFKA (OGA) who’re insured on 31 December 2023,
kids aged 6 to 16, so long as they obtain a pension as a result of demise of their mum or dad or a paraplegia – quadriplegia profit from the e-EFKA (OGA).
Because the day of completion of the sixteenth yr of age, December 31 of the yr 2024 is taken into account, whatever the month of delivery.
Monetary help from 1,000 to 700 euros to five,000 feminine farmers with three or extra kids.
This system is geared toward 1,000 moms with many kids who will obtain an assist of 1,000 euros and 4,000 moms with three kids who will obtain an assist of 700 euros.
Specifically, this system considerations moms with 3 or 4 kids with single and unemployed kids who haven’t exceeded 18 years of age, or 19 if they’re persevering with in secondary schooling or 24 if they’re learning at a Larger or Larger Schooling Establishment in Greece or overseas or attend the “Submit-high college yr – Apprenticeship Class” of Vocational Lyceums (EPA.L.) or Vocational Coaching Institutes (I.EK), or be individuals with a incapacity price of fifty% or extra.
Free books to 130 thousand beneficiaries
Books of their selection are supplied with a complete worth of 20 euros for every beneficiary and 30 euros for every little one of the beneficiary, from contracted bookstores and publishing homes all through the nation.
The validity of this program is from July 10, 2024 to Could 30, 2025.
Free tickets for theater performances to 32,500 beneficiaries
This system considerations 32,500 beneficiaries for theatrical performances in all main cities of Greece. The interval of validity is from July 10, 2024 to Could 30, 2025. For every ticket, the corporate is backed with an quantity of as much as 15 euros for the Principal Stage and with an quantity of as much as 12 euros for the Youngsters’s Stage.
After the purposes have been processed and if their quantity exceeds the variety of purposes supplied for within the LAE / OPECA Packages, a lottery will observe with an digital process. The distribution of beneficiaries is completed proportionally in all prefectures, with precedence to people who haven’t been drawn within the final three years. Beneficiaries are knowledgeable about the results of the lottery by means of the OPECA web site (www.opeka.gr) or by means of the KEP.
S. Zaharakis: Particular care, past the help of Northern Evia, and for the help of Evros
The Minister of Social Cohesion and Household, Sofia Zaharakis, acknowledged that “we basically stand by the facet of the agricultural household, recognizing the difficulties it faces but additionally its contribution to holding the Greek area alive and thriving. For yet one more yr, we’re due to this fact implementing by means of OPECA the packages of the Rural Family Account with a complete annual price range of 15 million euros, that are addressed to hundreds of farmers and members of their households. Particularly for this yr, we’ve got taken particular care, along with the help of Northern Evia, and for the help of Evros, rising to 10 in a single day stays for the beneficiaries of social and spa tourism, on the similar time absolutely overlaying the price of their keep, in order that there isn’t a no burden for the beneficiaries”.