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The Municipal Council for Cooperation and Solidarity, which met this morning, has approved grants to five of the eleven projects submitted by NGOs in the municipality to work in underprivileged countries.
Specifically, the Department of Equality Policies and Development Cooperation, headed Alicia Barquero, NGO's work with the Diocesan Caritas, for his work in Bolivia, the Institute for Community Development, for their project in Cameroon; Manos Unidas, which working in Guatemala; Blue in Action, which develops its work in Togo and CEPAIM Foundation, which works in Morocco.
These projects contribute to improving socio mainly children and adolescents with severe social problems, help the education and training of women in rural areas and work in the health field.
At the time of a grant, the City Council has taken into account the cooperation projects whose objectives contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, especially those related to the areas of health, education, human rights: social services and advocacy social, productive, and insfraestructuras environment, governance, empowerment of women and the fight against hunger.
The amount of subsidies is 18,000 euros.
The City Council convenes biannually aid.
The Municipal Council for Cooperation and Solidarity is chaired by Councilwoman Equality Policy and Development Cooperation, Alicia Barquero, and consists of the members of the municipal political groups María del Carmen Pelegrin (PP), Sea Pink (PSOE), Esther Herguedas (IU) and Ruben Juan Serna (UPyD); addition, are also part of the Board of Education Councilwoman Maria Dolores Sanchez Alarcon District Councilman Golf Murcia, Manuel Duran, Cristina Rubio, Diego Calderón, María José Nicolás Eduardo Osuna, Antonio Alcaraz and NGOs Association Friends of the Saharawi people, Cooperation, Diagram Foundation, Manos Unidas, Masters Mundi and Asomurgua.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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