The campaign calls for donations of essential goods, prioritising non-perishable food, hygiene products, and other basic support items, including rice, pasta, olive oil, cooking oil, canned goods, milk, baby food, biscuits, and cereals.

Soap, shampoo, shower gel, diapers, wipes, oral and feminine hygiene products, as well as first-aid supplies, tarpaulins, and blankets, are also needed, adds the OE press office.

Donations can be delivered until February 5th to the National Headquarters of the Nurses Association in Lisbon, as well as to the regional sections in the north, centre, and south of the OE, and to the Dr José Maria Grande Hospital in Portalegre.

“In addition to their service as healthcare professionals, nurses have mobilised to support populations during this vulnerable time, with an organised response to urgent needs,” explained the president of the Portuguese Nurses Association (OE), Luís Filipe Barreira.

The initiative is part of the “Solidarity Nurses” project, promoted by the OE, and aims to address the immediate needs resulting from the social and material impacts of this meteorological phenomenon. It is being developed in coordination with the municipality of Leiria.