The event, which will run from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., will also include professionals who carry out their work at the Casa del Niño and San Cristóbal schools, together with officials from the Department of Social Welfare.
Coinciding with the International Day of the Gypsy people, next Monday, April 8, the Department of Equality and Social Welfare and Family of the City of Lorca, and the Initiatives the Giant Foundation, organize the day "Gipsy Community in Lorca, for a job in network: Panel of experiences of social entities ".
This activity will gather in the renewed church of San Pedro the majority of entities that carry out social programs with this group.
between 10:00 and 13:00 h.
The main objective of this day is on the one hand to carry out the first joint action of all the social entities that work in this collective of Lorca, and on the other hand to improve the coordination between the actions that are being carried out.
In particular, the El Gigante Initiatives Foundation will participate.
(Entity organizing the event), Iniciativas el Gigante SL (company in charge of the implementation of the Gypsy Development Plan, during the last three years, Spanish Red Cross, Local Assembly of Lorca and Cáritas Interparroquial de Lorca, as representatives of the NGOs Longer and have been working in our town with this group for many years.
The Cepaim Foundation and Cazalla Intercultural will also participate, since they are currently diversifying their actions and not only focus on immigration programs but they are also starting to work with the Roma community.
In addition, two study centers, such as CEIP Casa del Niño and CEIP San Cristóbal, will present their experiences as schools that have a large presence of children of this ethnic group who are enrolled in their respective school communities.
Both the Department of Family and Social Welfare and the Department of Equality of the City of Lorca, consider interesting and necessary, to publicize and disseminate the effort and great work from these entities is developing in our municipality, in its different aspects.
Manifest reading and flag raising to commemorate the International Day of the Gypsy People
The Fundación Secretariado Gitano in collaboration with the City Council of Lorca will also celebrate the International Day of the Gypsy People with the reading of a manifesto and the raising of the flag of the Gypsy People.
The event will take place at 12 noon in the Plaza del Conservatorio de Música.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca