Councillor for Youth and Culture of the City of Lorca, Augustine Llamas, director of the Caixa Avenida Juan Carlos I, Juan Serrano, and the head of Cazalla, Manuel Semitiel, presented the Inter-speaker project for Communication intercultural coexistence ", which made this group in collaboration with the Social Work of La Caixa.
Serrano reported that "within the call of Social Action and Intercultural 2015 of the Social Work of La Caixa, which aims to support projects that promote equal opportunities, peaceful coexistence and intercultural community involvement, will It has awarded 21,310 euros this organization to develop this project, which has as direct beneficiaries to 280 people. "
Meanwhile Semitiel explained that "basic objectives of this project, we will conduct a campaign of intercultural awareness, develop communication strategies that foster a culture of diversity and counteract attitudes of discrimination and racism, false rumors and stereotypes about immigration and cultural diversity. In addition, we will address intercultural considering the crucial role of communication as a tool for social change and building a new critical and intercultural citizenship. Strengthening communication on the development of social intervention strategies and more specifically communication intercultural building in a sensitive and respectful citizens of diversity. "
It is a work against all forms of discrimination, to be developed through communications workshops and recording techniques in order to perform a radio program in one of the local stations.
In this sense Augustine Llamas congratulated this association, which is based in the new Youth Center of the University Campus of Lorca, because it is an entity that gets external funding from very different way for numerous projects that directly affect lorquina population.
In this case, focus on working what are called invisible racism that is those actions, expressions or negative feelings that some people have unwittingly compared to other countries of different social influence. "
Similarly, thanked the support of the Obra Social La Caixa both this project and many others performed in Lorca and that is a commitment of the bank to our town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca