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The commemoration of this World Day takes place on 10 October.
This year's motto 'Work without masks.
Embarking without Barriers' calls for the promotion of the right of everyone to access and maintain employment and to raise awareness of the need for workplaces to be healthy environments where mental health care
The Councilor of Oenegés of the City of Lorca, Fatima Mínguez, participated this morning in the day of public awareness organized by the Association of Mental Illnesses of Lorca (ASOFEM) on the occasion of the commemoration on October 10 of World Day of Lorca Mental Health.
Fátima Mínguez said that "coinciding with its 20th anniversary and the 25th anniversary of World Mental Health Day, ASOFEM celebrates this day with different activities such as placement in different parts of the city (Corredera Street, Alameda de las Columnas and Mercado Semanal ) of three informative tables in order to sensitize the population of Lorca about this disease. In addition, on Friday, November 17 will be held their Benefit Dinner, which will attend the Moto GP world champion Moto3 category Juanfran Guevara, Godfather of ASOFEM 2017, and the performance of the magician Pedro Lucas ".
The Councilor of Oenegés, in this sense, added that "the purpose of this information table and the charity dinner is to sensitize society on the idea that mental health affects all people equally and without losing The diversity that characterizes us, there are many more similarities between people, that differences: all people want to develop a life project, have goals, sorrows, joys and all aspire to contribute something to society.
"The Association of Mental Illnesses of Lorca also participates in other activities that take place outside the municipality, is the case of their attendance at the Regional Meeting of Families to be held in Caravaca de la Cruz on October 7 or its participation on Tuesday October 10 in the "II Mental Health Fair" to be held in the Plaza de Santo Domingo in Murcia.This event will count on the participation of all Federated Associations, and there will be various workshops and activities specific to each entity in order to normalize the life of offering a positive and real vision of the life of these people ".
La Edil de Oenegés has indicated that "this year, the movement grouped in MENTAL HEALTH SPAIN, which brings together more than 300 entities of people with mental health problems and family has chosen, through popular vote, the motto 'Work without masks "Embarking without barriers." It calls for the promotion of every person's right to access and maintain a job and to become aware of the need for workplaces to be healthy environments where mental health is taken care of. well-being at work and support for people with mental health problems to have a job as an active part of society. "
Finally, it should be noted 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 person and his family .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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