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The UNESCO Centre and the municipalities of Murcia Region will launch a project to involve children, the elderly and women's centers
Paraguay's ambassador in Spain, Oscar Cabello, thanked the City of Murcia and other municipalities in the region its collaboration with the UNESCO Centre Murcia projects to build schools and improve education in indigenous peoples of the Chaco area of ​​Paraguay .
The UNESCO Centre Murcia, with the help of local councils, has built five schools, one with the name of the Councillor of the Municipality of Murcia Remigio Lopez, who died last year.
Councilwoman Policies Equality and Development Cooperation of the Municipality of Murcia, Alicia Barquero, stressed that with this project, which began in 2007, has made access to education thousand children and youth, and improving hygiene conditions health of students and their families.
Besides the construction of schools, has been the material container area, have donated two ambulances which have become two mobile health centers with the presence of a doctor one day a week-have installed bathrooms in schools using students and their families, and students are given one meal a day at school.
Also, teachers Murcia have developed textbooks for indigenous children in the area.
New Initiative
The UNESCO Centre and the municipalities of Murcia Region will implement the project "Intercultural and intergenerational coexistence 'to continue working in the area.
The new initiative will involve the Department of Social Services, Cooperation, Education, Culture and the area of ​​Women of the municipalities.
The director of this project is Jessica Lopez Nieto, coordinator Mari Carmen Hidalgo Baeza.
The initiative is that school facilities, Women and people from the Senior Center know a photo exhibition of the work being done with the indigenous peoples of Paraguay and from there made paintings and stories, the little-; and paintings, crafts and collecting recipes and traditional words, older.
Once these workshops, there will be a day of coexistence and sell the products resulting from its work with the aim of raising funds.
This new project will collaborate young volunteers, who will be responsible for leading the workshops.
The goal is to get it going this year.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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