The demarcation of Lleida will have at the beginning of June a network of 11 municipal and citizen reception accommodations with 712 places for temporary workers for the fruit campaign. The main facility will be activated this week by the Paeria de Lleida in pavilion 3 of Fira de Lleida.
The deployment comes with part of the campaign already underway and with a resource that even opened before the rest. The Seròs hostel has been operational since May, while Lleida is now putting its central facility into service at a time when temporary workers are arriving in the capital and in the municipalities of Segrià.
The Paeria opens pavilion 3 of Fira de Lleida this week
Pavilion 3 of Fira de Lleida will concentrate the core of the municipal facility planned for the coming weeks. The opening coincides with the start of June, when the activity related to fruit harvesting intensifies in the demarcation.
Alongside that space, the reception network adds 11 accommodations between municipal resources and facilities promoted with citizen support. In total, the capacity reaches 712 places for temporary workers.
In addition, a new facility has been incorporated this year in the Caparrella area. The CATemporers 1 offers 32 places with showers, laundry, dining room, storage, and labor support to assist people arriving in Lleida for the campaign.
Seròs advanced the opening and Unió de Pagesos emphasizes intermediation
Seròs was one of the first municipalities to activate its accommodation resource. Its hostel has been operating since May, before the main facility in the capital of Segrià was put into operation.
The network is not conceived solely as a place to stay overnight. Carol Aixut, from Unió de Pagesos, highlighted the intermediation function that these accommodations fulfill in the contact between workers and agricultural holdings.
This linking role is added to the basic services incorporated in the new center in Caparrella and to the deployment of places distributed in different points of the demarcation. The operational objective is to organize reception during the weeks of greatest movement of temporary workers between Lleida and municipalities such as Seròs.
The most recent data on this year's deployment is the opening of CATemporers 1 in the Caparrella area of Lleida, with 32 places and services of showers, laundry, dining room, storage, and labor support.