| The event will take place in the Plenary Hall, at 6:30 pm | More than 600 boys and girls from the municipality have participated in the elaboration of a children's manifesto to commemorate Universal Children's Day, which is celebrated today, November 20.
The Plenary Hall of the City Council welcomes this afternoon, at 6:30 p.m., the public reading of the manifesto, with which the minors claim the protection of the environment.“Guaranteeing the well-being of the childhood community must be a priority of any public Administration, which is why the City Council launched the first Municipal Childhood Plan a year ago, articulated in three axes: equality, full inclusion and social integration ", highlighted the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, who will attend the event, along with the mayor of Urban Agenda and Open Government, Mercedes Bernabé.
The councilor for Social and Family Rights, Pilar Torres, will connect electronically.The environment and health are the central themes of the manifesto, following the theme proposed internationally for 2020 - this year the Rights of the Child will focus on 'The Right to a healthy and healthy environment'.The event, which will be broadcast live, via streaming, through the City Council website, will also be attended by three schoolchildren from the San Andrés educational center, the Buen Pastor school and the Mariano Baquero institute, respectively, who will read The manifesto.Murcia is dyed blueIn addition, different enclaves of Murcia will be dyed blue this afternoon to commemorate Universal Children's Day; emblematic spaces that will be, in particular, elcauce del Río, the Almudí Palace, the Moneo Building and the pedestrian axis of Alfonso X El Sabio.'To me of 2030'Specifically, to prepare the manifesto, the minors have started from an activity proposed by Unicef, which is entitled 'To my self of 2030' and is based on the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda.
The document, worked through the The guide that Unicef ??has made available to all child participation councils at the state level, has been made with a participatory methodology.Health and welfare; affordable and clean energy; responsible production and consumption and underwater life are the Sustainable Development Goals on which schoolchildren have been based.
The students have also produced a video with the manifesto, available on the Social Services website.The boys and girls who have been involved in the video also participate in Childhood and Adolescence projects that the City Council carries out.Week of the Rights of the Boy and the GirlThe reading of the manifesto is part of the 'Week of the Rights of the Boy and the Girl 2020', which began on November 13 and ends today, as an international campaign of social awareness for the knowledge and respect of the Rights of the Child.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia