A Wizard King, a guardian angel, a savior… there are not any adjectives to explain Agustín Rubiales, the ‘solidarity builder’ of Cádiz. A dozen households with financial issues go every day to his workplace, positioned at quantity 40 Calle Hospital de Mujeres, to ask for assist. “They are genuine dramas,” this man who has develop into the lifeline for a lot of admits to NIUS.
“Next week there are 5 evictions deliberate. Parents with babies in the midst of Christmas ”, he tells us, anxious. Family tragedies that he cannot get out of his head and that typically do not let him sleep. “I depart dizzy and with a headache. I’m going spherical and spherical to see how one can assist them, how one can cease it, how one can forestall them from ending up on the road, ”he says.
The lifetime of this 65-year-old builder is marked by solidarity. At 22 he was about to be evicted from the home of simply 14 sq. meters, alongside together with his spouse and his two babies. They owed 7,000 pesetas for 7 months’ lease. “We did not even have sufficient to eat,” he recollects. And though they have been different occasions, he is aware of the sensation of anguish, worry and uncertainty of seeing himself with one foot on the road. Thanks to the assistance of the parish, he was capable of make amends for his funds and get forward.
With loads of effort and sacrifice, this child who made a residing with what he obtained, managed to arrange his personal building firm and develop into, through the years, a profitable businessman. Since then, his skilled profession has been linked to the work in protection of those that don’t have any assets. “I’ll always remember the place I come from, nor what I went by way of,” he says.
Cede a farm to construct 14 properties
A couple of months in the past, Agustín supplied the town council of Cádiz and the municipal housing firm Procasa, a farm within the middle, from which as much as 14 one- and two-bedroom properties may be constructed. “You can save the lives of 14 households,” he says. “I give it up and the town council can be accountable for the work to construct the homes. In eight years, the funding would already be recovered with a good lease ”, he explains.
But, for the second, there was no response to the supply. For this purpose, it extends its supply to any native, provincial or regional administration that desires to hold out this undertaking that might assist present an honest roof for 14 households with out housing assets.
A Christmas story one year a 12 months
It is his final solidarity motion, however Agustín has spent half his life starring in a Christmas story one year a 12 months. He lately supplied a home to an octogenarian couple from Córdoba compelled to desert theirs after being deceived by the promoter from whom they purchased it.
Agustín has been the ‘guardian angel’ of greater than twenty households of their most troublesome moments. He carries all of them in his reminiscence. “You really feel immense peace and tranquility,” he says. Although there are circumstances which have marked him perpetually, akin to that of José Manuel, a homeless man from Cádiz affected by most cancers, who spent the final two months of his life “underneath an honest roof”, because of Agustín’s solidarity. “I promised him within the hospital and I saved it,” he says.
Or the grandmother, who’s now 93 years previous, evicted by her personal kids and from whom she is unable to gather something. “It is already unhappy that your kids throw you out on the road with nothing, what am I going to cost you for a room, for water, for electrical energy? Well no, I do not ”, she assures. Lives that Agustín helps and can proceed to take action, though typically not sufficient