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Book Project has made its second edition in Lorca about 9 tons of materials already selected and ready for shipment to South America.
Technical staff of the Autonomous Community has withdrawn from the facilities of the Waste Management weighed 8,940 kilos that leaving the 10 pallets of books and other educational materials to villages in Ecuador, Peru and Nicaragua with poor access to this type of school needs.
According to the Environment Edil, Melchor Morales Lorca initiative is developed in a collaboration between the Autonomous Community of Murcia and the Federation of Municipalities whose program has been assigned thirty locations, including City Council Lorca through competent business recovery of solid waste, Limusa.
Lorca and was the municipality with the highest participation in the previous edition with 6,298 kilos of educational materials suitable for use as packaging "
Morales has said that "Lorca has been added to this interesting proposal through their active participation in the Coordinating Commission for Communication on Environment for the reuse of books in Spanish speaking countries, to collect books and materials be reused by people in schools and community centers in poor countries of Latin America, fostering education, strengthening social and human values, and sharing the recycling culture. "
The campaign began on September 15 and have taken part in educational institutions of primary and secondary schools, colleges, and public library Pilar Barnes, in addition to the Cultural Center of the City, where they have provided packing boxes for storage the material.
The collection has been carried out in stages by all the collection sites at various time-bound and a new round to demand centers remains to be delivered once to remove material already completed the campaign, by a specific service Limusa organized only for those tasks.
After removing the material was classified for more than two months that coincided both Christmas and the hardest days of this winter, holidays and weekends, by a group of environmental volunteers both Lorca and the nearby town of Aledo, repeated in these tasks.
The material selected and arranged by the volunteers has been stories, books, school supplies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, in perfect working order, that is, suitable for the purpose for which it was created (if present activities that are not made, if carried coloring pages that are not painted, etc..) in order to be used in classroom instruction.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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