Murcia City Council is committed to promoting the work of NGOs in the municipality.
To do this, through the Department for Development Cooperation, who runs Alicia Barquero, will launch a global project for each month of the year to organize activities, exhibitions, conferences, educational and awareness lectures, etc., in the presence NGOs and taking as its theme days indicated and the Millennium Development Goals.
Barquero explained that the month of January is dedicated to Peace, an exhibition of Manos Unidas in the Municipal Center of El Carmen, drawing and writing schools on Peace Day and the installation of military camps in gardens city ​​to see their work in peace missions.
The Councillor stressed that the budget has been made taking into account the cost of 2011 and in 2012 will amount to 360,000 euros.
In addition, he recalled that the City of Murcia is one of the consistory in times of crisis continues to support development cooperation, as many municipalities have eliminated this service.
Also, the Consistory continue working on the project municipality, a program that performs the Spanish International Cooperation Agency (AECI), the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), the Confederation of Funds for Cooperation and Solidarity (CONFOCOS) and the Ministry of Public Administrations (MAP), with the cooperation of the City of Murcia, a consortium to develop tourism in Ecuador.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia