The director of the Institute of Youth in the Region of Murcia, Veronica Lopez, and CEO of Educational Development and Innovation, Carlos Romero, accompanied by the mayor of Archena, Marcos Manuel Sanchez and the councilman of Youth, Patricia Fernandez, have maintained Today a meeting with participants of the decentralization program information 'Youth Correspondents' Institute of Secondary Education (IES) IES Vicente Medina and Pedro Guillen, Archena.
A program that since its launching in September 2008, involving a total of 72 youths.
In each of these schools, three students 'exercise of Youth Correspondent', a figure that is intended to inform the resources and activities that may be useful to other youth.
Lopez said that the project's objectives are to disseminate information and resources on Youth of the Autonomous Community of Murcia and listen to the concerns of young people and deliver them to the Youth Institute.
Romero, meanwhile, stressed the support of the Ministry of Education, Training and Employment for this initiative, "because we understand that the information on leisure time has also come to the educational environment," noting that the Ministry has a line of support addressed to the federations and confederations of Student Associations to conduct training activities, participation in school councils and leisure.
A total of 72 young people engaged in 'Youth Correspondent' in different spheres of action of this program, such as schools, museums, libraries and the University of Murcia.
The first to join this project, promoted by the Institute of Youth and the General Educational Development, have been 22 secondary education institutes spread over the municipalities of Abanilla, Abarán, Alguazas, Alhama de Murcia, Archena, Beniel, Calasparra, Cehegín, Ceuta, Fortuna, Jumilla, Lorca Lorqui Mazarrón Moratalla, Mula, Puerto Lumbreras, San Pedro del Pinatar, Santomera, Torre Pacheco Totana.
Also involved, through an agreement with the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries, 13 municipal libraries, in addition to the Regional Library, which will involve 15 intercultural mediators to join their duties the young correspondent.
We have selected those libraries that are part of the project 'Multicultural Library' in the municipalities of Alhama de Murcia, Beniel, Cartagena, Fuente Alamo Jumilla, Lorca, Los Alcazares, Mazarrón, San Javier, San Pedro del Pinatar, Torre Pacheco Totana and Murcia, through the Municipal Library of El Palmar and the Regional Library.
Owned regional museums also joined this project, through the Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets.
Fifty youth correspondents exercised guides in eight museums Barranda (Caravaca de la Cruz), Mula, and the rest in the city of Murcia: Archaeological Museum, Fine Arts, Church of San Juan de Dios, Santa Clara, Salzillo, and the The Cathedral.
Murcia University participates with the Correspondents 'Youth' with four students who work in Information Services University of La Merced Campus and Campus Espinardo.
Photo: Deputy Director of Educational Development and Innovation, Yolanda Royo, Archena Mayor, Manuel Marcos, Juveniles'del Correspondents `IES Vicente Medina, director of the Institute for Youth, Veronica Lopez, CEO of Educational Development and Innovation , Carlos Romero, and the councilman of Youth, Patricia Fernandez.
Source: CARM