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The 'Right to a full healthy life', the key to the Children's Week that starts tomorrow (12/11/2018)

The Department of Social Rights and Development Cooperation has organized 25 activities in neighborhoods and districts to promote wellness through a harmonious balance in the diet, physical activity, intellectual, leisure, hygiene and emotional balance

The "Right to a full healthy life" is the theme chosen for the Children's Rights Week 2018. This has been announced by the Councilor for Social Rights and Development Cooperation, Conchita Ruiz, in the Week of the Rights of Children and Adolescents that is celebrated from November 13 to 20 and in which 25 diverse activities will be developed and distributed by neighborhoods and districts.

Healthy life is interpreted as a way of life in which the person maintains a harmonious balance in their diet, physical activity, intellectual, leisure, hygiene and emotional balance.

In this sense, the objectives of the Health Promotion Strategy of the City Council are aimed at promoting healthy lifestyles, as well as safe environments and behaviors in children and adolescents through comprehensive interventions in the family, community and educational partner, besides promoting healthy lifestyles in the childhood and adolescence of the municipality and emotional well-being in the child population.

Social policies are related to health by influencing people's living conditions, social cohesion and structural determinants such as gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and society's values.

Social protection policies allow to moderate the causes and consequences of ill health due to socioeconomic factors.

Leisure and culture also have effects on the health of the population.

A use of leisure time in a healthy way, through physical activities for example, positively affects the health of people, as well as the creation of social networks.

The Department of Social Rights and Development Cooperation has scheduled 25 different activities for the participation of children.

In addition to the Children's Plenary, which, as every year, will take place on the 20th, and a Feast in the Silk Garden, next Sunday, there will also be up to five schools that will participate in the 'Pinto mi cole' proposal.

The program includes games, movies, storytelling, theater, graffiti workshop or yinkanas and will have as scenario the districts of Corvera, Los Martinez del Puerto, El Puntal, Torreagüera, Monteagudo, Alquerías or Zarandona, as well as neighborhoods like Santa María de Gracia, Vistabella or San Pío X.

21 years of commemorations

The Week of the Rights of the Child and the Girl is a project that has been carried out since 1997 with the participation of associations and entities of the municipality that work with children and adolescents.

Its purpose is the dissemination and knowledge of the "Rights of the Child" among minors and adults, both to claim them and make them meet in all areas of life.

These rights are included in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which is the international treaty of the General Assembly of the United Nations, which recognizes the basic human rights of children and adolescents, approved in 1989 and ratified by Spain in 1990.

The 54 articles that make up the convention include economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights of all children.

Its application is the obligation of governments, but it also defines the obligations and responsibilities of other agents, such as parents, teachers, health professionals, researchers and the children themselves.

In the Municipal Children's Program, strategic line number 4 is dedicated to "Participation and Rights of Children", with the main objective of "promoting and articulating appropriate spaces and times to make effective the participation of children, and their recognition as citizens with full rights and for the dissemination and consolidation of their rights ".

One of the actions foresees the promotion of the integration and participation of the City Council in local networks in favor of childhood and adolescence, such as the adhesion to the Child Friendly Cities program, promoted by Unicef.

This accession was materialized in November 2016, with the City Council obtaining the Ciudad Amiga de la Infancia seal.

The four fundamental principles of the Convention are:

1. Non-discrimination

2. The best interests of the child

3. The right to life, survival and development

4. Children's participation.

The associations that have participated this year in the commission of Rights Week has been composed of Columbares, Cystic Fibrosis, Cepaim, Caritas, Pupaclown, Abraham Project, Astrapace.

The collaboration of the Regional Film Library, Assido, Astrapace, Manos Unidas, laCaixa Foundation, Cajamurcia Foundation, Afacmur, Adixmur, Amaim, Amupheb, Aspanpal, Columbares Association, Association of guide dogs, Onda Association of Murcia Astrade, Aynor has also counted , Cáritas, Consumur, Crecer, Murcia Explorers, Cystic Fibrosis, Arcos del Castillo Foundation, Cepaim Foundation, San Pío X Scout Group, IDC, Magma and Margyjp, Nuevo Futuro, Once, Abraham Project, Pupaclown, Murcia Catholic Scouts, Gypsy Secretariat, UTE Kangaroo, UTE Acofam, Unicef.

In addition, the City Council has collaborated with the Municipal Health Service, Culture, Education, Municipal Graffiti Office, Civil Protection and the Municipal Boards of neighborhoods and districts.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia

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