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This is the "storyteller grandparents Smiles" initiative, which was launched this morning in San José de Calasanz.
The City Council is committed to the major and active sector and underlining their potential and social contribution.
Policy Councilmember Mayor of the City of Lorca, María del Carmen Ruiz, this morning attended the launch of the "Smiles grandparents Storyteller" initiative.
It is an activity by which a group of people over our city attend different schools and kindergartens in the city to tell stories to the little ones and represent small puppet theater, provided by the company Imaginarium.
The mayor of Staff stressed that this project will develop during the month of June, contemplating visitors in the College of Education Special Pilar Soubrier, Nursery San José de Calasanz, Area Pediatrics Hospital Rafael Méndez, Eliosol and Nursery Center Early Intervention.
This proposal aims to highlight the contribution of our elders, taking advantage of its special relationship with the children, creating a direct communication between generations through reading and storytelling.
The objectives of this program are to promote active aging, promote intergenerational relationships, encourage social participation through specific actions, contribute to the maintenance of memory using creativity, speech, visualization, story dramatization thereof and fill the blank time of our greatest positively and improving self esteem.
We also seek to facilitate exchange between elderly and other age groups, promoting a positive view of old age and aging in our society.
Ruiz Jodar explained that in this program the story will have multiple uses, in fact we will help to achieve several goals, such as being an intermediary to improve our relationships between children and the elderly (as its recreational component) and improve cognitive performance and memory of the elderly themselves, as the stories are told from memory, which also favors the stimulation of creativity to capture the attention of children.
Also, we will help find an occupation that improves the mood of this group through active participation in a pleasant and useful project.
Since it will be the motivator axis involvement in helping our elders telling stories to be useful in contributing and sharing their community with the special children of Lorca, common spaces.
Lorca, model active participation in projects for seniors.
This activity is part of the projects of the Department of Policy Staff, with which we intend to develop projects and activities such as this, in which players are our greatest assets, and one of the key objectives on which it works part of this Council is to provide our major projects in which they develop an active, direct participation, responding to a social reality, as the group of older people should not be viewed only as a passive recipient of action administrations, but as active sector have much to contribute, fleeing archaic stereotypes associated with their passivity and emphasis on functional dependency, rather than their potential.
Intergenerational programs are defined as means for intentional and ongoing exchange of resources and learning among older and younger generations in order to achieve individual and social benefits.
In this sense intended to encourage contact between generations of a locality creating real living spaces.
The benefits of intergenerational programs or activities are manifold both individually and collectively.
At the individual level, we can think about the personal satisfaction of meeting new people and feel recognized and valued.
Obviously, we also have the specific knowledge generated by the activity itself.
Collectively, we have to overcome stereotypes of different ages but especially the creation of new links nearby, especially at the neighborhood level, and social cohesion.
Also noteworthy, the mutual benefits that generate this type of programming in both older and our children.
The program objectives are:
• Encourage meeting spaces and interaction among seniors and children in the municipality of Lorca favoring his touch.
• Promote the exchange of knowledge, experience and services between people of different ages
• Promote interaction and cooperation among alumni / ae and the elderly.
• Achieve continuous and lasting intergenerational gaps between these sectors of the population.
• Overcoming prejudices and stereotypes about age groups
• Provide support and mutual benefit to all generations involved
Councilmember Policy Staff stressed that today the group of older people in our city, thanks to the initiative of the municipal area, develops the following programs:
• Smiles grandparents storyteller.
• Sponsorship between homes and school.
• Sharing my home with a student.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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