He has been living in a prefabricated home in La Palma for three years and sends a “difficult” message after what happened in Valencia

It seems like a lie, but More than a thousand days have passed since we were able to see how the lava from the Cumbre Vieja volcano devastated homesfarmland and dreams and memories of thousands of inhabitants of The Palm. Today, December 13, Three years have passed since the eruption of the La Palma volcano ended. The consequences were terrible: nearly 7,000 people were evicted and about 1,300 homes destroyed. It also devastated about 370 hectares of crops, most of them dedicated to bananas, taking away the business of businessmen.

For this reason, in La Linterna they have spoken with neighbors who still, three years later, They have to notice the effects of this volcano that left devastating consequences. Not only about that eruption, but about the promises that were made… and those that have not yet been fulfilled. Many that were done to help the thousands affected by this eruption They remain just that, promises and empty words.

In fact, before summer, around 200 people from 96 companies still had temporary employment regulation files due to the volcano. Although little by little the situation and the economy are improving, there are many residents who have seen how their lives have been turned upside down, with no option yet to return to normal. To the point of living in prefabricated homes. Although it sounds incredible, Naira is one of themand explains to Angel Expositodirector of The Lanternthe drama that continues to live.

NAIRA EXPLAINS THE TRAUMA OF BEING HOMELESS: “WE WANT NORMALITY”

Although both Naira and her family are well and, most importantly, they are healthythe housing issue was never the same again. Above all, after the very hard first year after the tragedy they experienced. “We're ok. Four people live here: my husband, my two children and me.. We live well, when we arrived here we felt a relief after having spent a whole year wandering around small houses, caravans. It's small, there are four of us, and after two years we are a little tired.”he explains.

Above all, because They can't even get close to where their home was.in the south of the island: “We cannot return to the affected area, because our house is in the red zone, a protected zone. They haven't told us why. He had a piece of land on the coast, which he grew bananas, and on that land we wanted to build a new home. And that's where we are.”

But The trauma was not only experienced by them, but by their children. In some cases, some children have not even been able to return to their usual school. “The children are champions, they have a capacity to adapt and improve that many of us would like. But it has been difficult. They didn't understand what was happening and there were children who needed a lot of help, a lot of talking to them.. Something that they tell us now that we did very wrong but that we did not know at that time, at the moment the volcano erupted, We told them to run, shouting, and that has generated trauma in them“, he explained.

Naira's message to the administrations after what happened in Valencia

Naira refuses to make comparisons with another drama that, unfortunately, Spain has experienced recently: the DANA of Valencia, which has left 200 dead. But there is something that can be talked about, and well: the absence of those promised aid that, in theory, should also reach the Valencians. “I don't like to compare Valencia with this. At the aid level, yes, because three years have passed, and although we believe that this was too big for everyone, administrations are slow. We are tired, we need to return to normality. “Everything is very slow,” he says.

Naira is another of the many inhabitants of La Palma who were robbed of normality. They hope that it will arrive completely one day, although the ravages of this volcano, three years later, they are still very, very hard.