This project "Sound", an extension of Grandparents Storytelling workshop reflecting the excellent result of the implementation of local initiative.
Councilwoman Policy Staff of the City of Lorca, Maria del Carmen Ruiz, has reported that the group of people over the Department is developing a new storytelling initiative at school Soubrier Pilar, San Jose day care Calasanz and Eliosol, Early Childhood Center, Apandis and in the area of ​​pediatrics at the Hospital Rafael Méndez
Jódar Ruiz explained that this project falls within the program of Aging and Intergenerational Solidarity in the area of ​​social participation of the Department.
This is a transversal program complements and expand reporting profits grandparents storytelling workshops that are being developed.
The program highlights the figure of our ancestors, grandparents and their influence on children.
In this activity the story and narration are used as a communication tool between different generations.
The Edil Major noted that one of the major objectives it set the Department since its establishment in 2007 was to change the vision remained until the group of older people, who only watched them as passive objects of the action social.
From that moment decisively opted for working with older people to channel their concerns in an active, since we own elders indicated that they had much to offer and were willing to actively cooperate with the municipality.
The active role of the major initiatives as demonstrated in the Grandparents' Storytelling, which also allows the establishment and consolidation of relations between adults and children, building new social communication scenarios.
The objectives of this program are to foster intergenerational relationships, encourage social participation and volunteering through specific actions and contribute to the maintenance of memory using creativity, language, visualization, story, the dramatization of the same ... This project aims to establish an alternative for seniors to use their time positively and improving self esteem.
The places where the storyteller is being made today are:
Friday, 11 special education mayoColegio Pilar Soubrier
Friday, 25 St. Joseph Calasanz mayoGuardería
Friday, 1 Hospital pediatric junioZona Rafael Mendez
Friday 8 Special education junioColegio Pilar Soubrier
Friday June 15 Eliosol Nursery
Friday 22 junioAPANDIS
Friday 29 Early Care junioCentro
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca