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About 200 elderly in the municipality held yesterday to course book clubs social centers for the elderly, in an emotional ceremony held in the auditorium of the Regional Archive.
Participants included members of the Reading Club and Board of Directors, as well as various volunteers along the course of performing a task to encourage reading in the Social Centres for the Elderly.
Presided over the ceremony the Deputy Mayor for Social Welfare and Health, Maruja Pelegrin and the Director General of Cultural and Artistic Education, Carmen Batres, president of the Cultural Association of Teachers of Murcia (Acdomur).
Ms. Ana Morenilla and president of the Friends Foundation Reading, María Encarnación García Álvarez.
The Spaniard Francisco Rabadán writer spoke about his work and the value of writing in general, and after this intervention audiovisual music and fragments of poems and reflections by prominent writers projected.
Another part of the ceremony was the reading of various fragments of literary works, performed by the participants of the reading clubs.
Each attendee also received a gift book provided by the Regional Library.
The number of clubs currently reading is twelve, with a progressive increase since its inception and demand to start new clubs in other Senior Centers.
The number of people involved in all the clubs Reading is about 150 more volunteers to coordinate and streamline the approximately 18 others.
Reading Clubs Social Centres for the Elderly in the municipality of Murcia have been operating since 1998 through a collaboration agreement between the city of Murcia and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Autonomous Community, which also involved voluntary organizations.
The objectives of this activity are to promote the reading habit among people over, so that it affects the social and individual improvement of older people, through the promotion of this cultural and educational activity.
To meet these objectives, participants have collective loan book performs various Regional Library Club.
Reading Clubs usually meet one day a week with the participation of older members of the CSM that are part of this activity, coordinated by a volunteer who performs tasks encourage reading, reading a preselected work and provided by the Regional Library through collective license.
Currently the volunteers who are providing such services fall into three Associations.
Clubs are grouped into two associations:
-ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEER CENTER ACDOMUR: Fleet, Vistalegre, S. Anton, S. Andres S. Antolin, Garres, La Cueva (Monteagudo), S. Miguel, Santiago and Zaraíche and Fame.
-FRIENDS FOUNDATION READING: Bacons Bridge and La Alberca.
Voluntary member of the Senior Center Cabeza de Torres.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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