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The competition will start at 16 hours and will have a total of 230 participants, aged between 5 and 17 years.

Tickets to attend this sporting event can be purchased from the Associated Clubs of Lorca to WKB (Karate World Kyokushin Budokai)

The Councilor for Sports of the City of Lorca, Juan Francisco Martinez, and the president of the Association of Mental Health of Lorca (ASOFEM), Jose Antonio Ponce, presented this morning the Regional Championship of Katas for the benefit of this non-profit organization Which will take place on Saturday 25 February at the Felipe VI Sports Complex.

Juan Francisco Martinez explained that "the competition will start at 16 hours and will have a total of 200 participants, aged between 5 and 17. As a charity event during the championship will also have the support of others Clubs of neighboring provinces such as Almeria or Alicante. "

Councilor for Sports has indicated that "the proceeds that are obtained by the sale of tickets for this sporting event will be donated in full to ASOFEM, being able to obtain the same in the Associated Clubs of Lorca to WKB (Karate World Kyokushin Budokai)."

Martinez said that "the goal of the realization of this championship, apart from raising funds to help the Association, is to sensitize society about the idea that mental health affects all people equally and without losing There are many more similarities between people, that differences: all people want to develop a life project, have goals, sadness, joys and all aspire to contribute something to society.

The Edil de Deportes emphasized that "with the realization of the Regional Championship of Katas Infantil is intended to appeal to the empathy of society with mental health problems, insisting on the importance of knowing how to put yourself in the place of others to know them In Spain, according to official data, between 2.5 and 3% of the adult population has a serious mental disorder, 9% suffer from some type of mental disorder (chronic or mild) and 19.5% % Will have it throughout his life. "

Finally, it should be remembered that ASOFEM is an Association of Relatives and People with Mental Illness of Lorca and Comarca constituted in 1997 and has a Day Center of the Autonomous Community.

It is an Association of Self-Help created for the defense of the rights of people with mental illness and their families, being this a channel for the participation of these relatives, in order to improve the conditions of life, of the affected and his family .

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca