Thanks to the European Social Fund, the General Directorate for Women of the Autonomous Community subsidizes the cost for 60 children whose parents can not take care of them during the holiday period because they are working or training.
Another 30 students can participate by paying € 50.
The Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Agustín Llamas, and the Councilor for Equality, Eulalia Ibarra, presented the second edition of the Christmas Coeducational Schools for schoolchildren, who after the success of last year intend to offer for 90 schoolchildren an alternative Non-formal education for minors during this holiday period.
Llamas explained that "until December 15 at the headquarters of the Popular University is open the registration period for children from 3 to 12 years enrolled in the Centers for Early Childhood and Primary Education of the municipality and want to participate since 23 From December to January 5, from Monday to Friday, non-festive and from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in this program of conciliation and coeducation that includes workshops of children's stories, theater, costumes, games, Christmas excursions and much more".
For its part Eulalia Ibarra stressed that "although the contents of these activities are all focused on educating in equality, in addition thanks to the Directorate General of Women of the Autonomous Community and the European Social Fund we offer the possibility of serving as a free service Of work, family and personal life for 60 children of those parents who are working or being trained for a job in this time in which their children have no class. To expand the information of these grants, interested persons can contact the Department of Equality, located on the first floor of the Center for Local Development, in the Alameda de Cervantes.
In this sense, the mayor recalled that "thanks to the Ministry of Family and Social Policy, and in the summer months we held other schools to reconcile and co-educate that they pursued the same objectives of transmitting to boys and girls participating attitudes and values ​​co- Using games and artistic expression as educational means, to contribute to the elimination of gender roles and stereotypes, as well as to contribute to making visible the contributions of women in the development of the family, the community and society in general.
Among the games included in the planned program are: presentation dynamics, Feeling expression workshop, Christmas decorations and a collage about Christmas with messages and images about the importance of Coeducation, Stewardship and Conciliation, Coeducational Stories And theater to represent them, sewing and disguises, visits to the Museum of Bethlehem and the Bethlehem municipal, a workshop to make visible the contributions of women at Christmas and in the cultural transmission of Christmas traditions, a workshop of the shopping basket And the organization of a Christmas party, popular games and traditional sports, video library on issues related to equality and coeducation.
In addition, will be offered Psychomotricity and pre-sport aimed at children from 3 to 6 years and in the different activities will be practiced English language, adapted to the ages of children,
Greetings and their answers, numbering, pronouns, colors, animals, transportation, family, class and parts of the body.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca