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The First Conference on Development Cooperation and Volunteering is held in Los Jerónimos
Several experts, responsible for institutions in the field of volunteering participate today and tomorrow in the Conference on Development Cooperation and Volunteering organized by the Catholic University through its International Chair in Medicine and Humanitarian Surgery.
The inaugural lecture was given by the journalist Rosa María Calaf who has given the conference 'Poverty and Human Rights.
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Calaf has stressed the idea that we are all responsible for what happens on the planet, and has pointed to volunteering as something "essential when it comes to building a more just world".
With regard to poverty, the journalist has assured that we must speak of justice, and not of charity, and has stressed that it "is based on the empowerment of people."
"We talk about poverty as if it were inevitable, and it's not like that," he assured.
In the inaugural act of the Conference have participated, Roque Martinez, general director of Health Care of the CARM;
José Manuel Rodríguez, director of the chair organizing the event and president of the NGO Cirugía Solidaria;
Ángel Baeza, manager of the University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, and Antonio Alcaraz, vice-chancellor of University Extension of the UCAM.
José Manuel Rodríguez recalled that this is the first time that an international volunteer and cooperation conference of this nature has been held in the Region, and he has assured that throughout these two days the role of volunteering will be shown, the involvement of society, to end with the vision of the president of the Federation of African Associations in Murcia, who will speak about the cooperation that is being developed there from the Region.
In the context of these conferences it has been announced that the Chair of Medicine and Humanitarian Surgery of the Catholic University will consolidate its support to this NGO by offering regulated training (with specialization titles), which professionals of Solidarity Surgery will impart to the health of the areas to which they move.
NGO, solidarity surgery
The Chair of Humanitarian Surgery of the UCAM was born from Solidarity Surgery, Murcian NGO formed by health professionals from different fields (surgeons, nurses, anesthetists, midwives, physiotherapists, pediatricians, etc.), which has served more than 5,000 people in his campaigns in Algeria, Mali, Cameroon and Senegal, always with the support of the Hospital of La Arrixaca and the coordination with the Ministry of Health.
The UCAM has been supporting these campaigns of Solidarity Surgery, chaired by Dr. José Manuel Rodríguez, always of short duration (about 15 days of movement of the toilets to these areas), and that has been strengthened with the creation of the Chair of Medicine and Humanitarian Surgery.
Source: UCAM
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