Igniting Dignity

It all started at the end of 2020 when the electricity company Naturgy decided to cut the electricity supply to more than 4,500 people living in sectors VI and V of the Cañada Real.

It is easy to say, but it is hard to bear. When on 2 October 2020 the lights went out in a large sector of the Cañada Real Galiana, nobody thought that so much time would pass without a response from the administration. Some look the other way because it is not within their competence, others casting over the shadows of a precarious neighborhood the eye of those who only see land for future brick-and-mortar businesses.

The winter holidays - never so winter - and a Christmas party of dull trees and uncooled cider have gone. Filomena seemed to awaken a Madrid population that was more willing to point its criminalizing finger than to empathize with the dramatic situation of the 4,500 people living in sectors 5 and 6 of the Cañada. Especially with those 1,812 minors that not even the intervention of United Nations agencies have been able to protect.