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The Councillor for Social Welfare and Health, Maria del Carmen Pelegrin, has said Murcia City Council has launched this year a protocol to work more and better in the field of child protection, in order to delve more in the field and reduce the incidence of vulnerability in the municipality (50 cases so far).
These statements have taken place this morning to visit the information stands of the Week on the Rights of the Child, installed in the Plaza de Santo Domingo, the day of commemoration.
The visit was also attended by the Minister of Health and Social Policy, Maria Angeles Palacios, and CEO of Social Policy, Leopoldo Navarro.
Events take place until 24 November, the day in which there will be the big party for children in the garden of La Seda.
The Councillor for Social Welfare and Health has emphasized that working with Children is a daily work, hence carried out major projects such as the following:
- Project Activities PAI childhood and adolescence in 34 neighborhoods and districts of the town, where you can receive up to a total of 1300 children in leisure activities and free time, four hours a week from October to May.
- Helps to support the school, cafeteria, this year, we awarded a total of 556 grants.
- Draft tutoring, this year 167 children participated, 43 neighborhoods and districts, which have been supported in their homework, with the help of 105 volunteers.
- 41 summer schools, where 1,852 children have participated during the month of July, and 127 spaces camps one week in July and first half of August.
- The City of Murcia partnership with Caixa for project development ciberaulas "stay after school".
These develop in Espinardo ciberaulas, Sorrows and St. Pius X, involved in this project 131 children.
- Grants to organizations and associations that have projects working with children and adolescents.
- Bonobus to support families in activities with children.
21,036 trips were provided to go to school, school support, leisure activities and free time for insertion and prevention, for additional training and for volunteering projects collaborating in childhood.
Activities planned for the week:
INFO POINT, installed in the Plaza de Santo Domingo from Tuesday 18 to Friday 22 November, in the afternoon, Saturday November 23 to 14 hours.
Next to the information point will be installed four panels explaining the most relevant articles of the Convention.
Recreational activities will be conducted in the evenings to engage children attending both groups of children we have projects in different neighborhoods and districts as other public associations or children in general.
To support the various activities carried out by the hot spot all week, we had the participation of 25 university volunteers.
CHILDREN'S THEATRE: Friday 22 at the pool, with the play The Cat and the Swallow.
Storytelling: five performances were held at: St. James the Greater, artillery headquarters auditorium in Progress, Santo Domingo, La Arboleja
CHILDREN'S PARTY:
The Silk Garden at 11 am on Sunday November 24.
Entertainment activities will be developed on stage, there will be a climbing wall and various workshops organized by 33 of the 39 associations that collaborate in Childhood week.
This activity will count with the participation of 10 undergraduate volunteers.
OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Throughout the week other activities were held in different municipalities, related to children's rights, such as collective murals, group games, craft workshops, intergenerational activities, gynkanas, plays performed by children, and choral concerts by the Choir concert Fernández Caballero instrumental Esparragal musical society.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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