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with a total of 2,874 beneficiaries |
The Councillor for Citizen Participation and Volunteering, Juan Carrion Tudela, and the councilman of Commerce, María Isabel Sánchez Ruiz, presented the reopening of the Municipal Volunteer Service and International Relations and the new edition of the book "Fair Trade", framed in this service .
Carrion Tudela, accompanied by the technical coordinator and the service, recalled that the Voluntary Service and International Relations from the Department developed Citizen Participation in conjunction with the Collective "The Candle", was launched in late 2006 and with two years experience, now opens its doors to serve all those interested in volunteering, as well as institutions themselves volunteers already active.
In this regard, he stressed that this service, a pioneer in the Region of Murcia, has served as a model for developing performance measures regional priority Volunteer Plan launched by the Ministry for Social Policy and Immigration.
He explained that the model of voluntary license and Fair Trade initiative have also been extrapolated to the plan, which aims to unify the figure of volunteerism.
Thus XXII Congress announced that the Volunteer State, to be held in Murcia city, will allow the framework to promote the work of volunteers and the vital role they play in society.
As in previous years, the Volunteer Service, based on the criteria of flexibility and adaptability, opens in the morning and the location remains the same the previous year, the Department of Citizen Participation, located on Calle Menorca # 23 of Urbanization Ceramics and the phone 968 418 172.
Among the activities planned to develop during 2009, include among others, the Service and Volunteer Orientation, Volunteering Bag and Entities Volunteer Card Renewal, Creation of spaces on the network: The WEB volunteer, citizen Classroom: workshops for volunteers and organizations, the stock of Resources to citizens and organizations to develop voluntary, (loan of audiovisual material, documents, etc..) Awareness Campaign (schools, media, infrastructure participation etc.) Activities Promotion, Advocacy and Outreach Volunteer (sample of experiences, Calendar of events, etc., Ceremonies commemorating the International Volunteer Day, Participation in the preparation of Regional Plan of Volunteering, and Participation in Congress Volunteer State.
Presentation of the book "Fair Trade"
For its part, the councilman of Commerce presented the new edition of Project "Fair Trade", where after this renewal of the membership of the trade, from the Department of Citizenship has edited a new book containing all the bonuses and discounts for each of the three groups (Volunteering, Seniors and Disabilities).
Totana The project emerged in late 2006 as a novel experience at the regional level, with the aim of promoting local commerce and shopping in small shops, for which established a series of rebates and discounts to groups Volunteer , Senior Citizens and Disabled of the town of Totana.
The project ran in 2007 as a pilot and was in 2008 when I started as a stable activity with the renewal of membership of the trade.
The mayor said the number of shops or companies affiliated with the project are a total of 172, with total beneficiaries of 2,874 people, 320 volunteers, 1,803 of City Senior Center, 50 Municipal Center for the Elderly "The Paretón" , 80, Retired Municipal Center "Santa Barbara" and 621, which have the disability card.
The citizens having any type of card can go to pick up the book Fair Trade for the Department of Commerce (high BBVA) and Citizen Participation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana. Fotos: Totana.com
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