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The socialist candidate for mayor of Murcia, Pedro López, has raised this morning the launch of an ambitious volunteer program for the elderly in the municipality so as to optimize its potential performing such important tasks as regulating traffic at the entrance of the schools, teaching the parks, the corners of the city, Huerta school groups and guide the smaller municipal museums.
This program would be implemented through 'time banks' so that older people can offer their time to the development of voluntary activities useful for all citizens, thus promoting the values ​​of cooperation and solidarity, while that living spaces are created between different generations.
The candidate has raised the proposal during a meeting he had with the board of the Federation of Associations and Centres of the Third Age Pensioners and others in the region of Murcia, who have raised their main problems, most notably the unequal distribution grants for senior centers.
Pedro Lopez was convinced that in these times of crisis you have to use your imagination to maximize the resources of our town and the largest capital available to Murcia are your people, you have to put up proposals to active aging of our elders.
The candidate noted that many of cities that have implemented similar programs with great success such as Zaragoza and Active Ageing Plan; Albacete through the Cultural Volunteers program, which trains people Older seniors so they can teach the city's museums, or Soria, which promotes participation in community activities through volunteering and social cooperation.
Source: PSOE Murcia
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