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The Association of Family and Mentally Ill of Murcia (AFES) held at the Center for Young Artists Cotillas Towers paths awareness sessions with students from schools "Susarte" and "Monteazahar" Torreño Township.
Framed in its activities to celebrate "World Day of Mental Health", which was held on October 10th-, these proposals have been made on Wednesday 24 and Thursday 25 October, and sought to enhance the knowledge of young people about mental illness and how to prevent them through a healthy lifestyle.
"It's very important to bring youth to the reality of mental illness, especially in these times where a large percentage of these ills are due to drug use," write from the association, whose objectives include "educating society to eliminate the prejudices that haunt this group. "
Multidisciplinary exhibition
In this space AFES is developing in collaboration with the Department of Culture Torrena-disciplinary exposure "Over 30 years thinking of you", which will be active until Friday October 26th with free admission and brings woodworking, sewing, crafts, leather, ceramics, painting ... "This is a retrospective look at the work of the association, created in 1980, which on the one hand we want society to know our work rehabilitation and, second, we continue to fight stigma that this disease brings, "says a AFES.
"There are no names on the works on display, because the important thing is that behind every brushstroke, every stitch, every cut and every job completed a number of people who are not considered different," explained from the association, counts from 2003 with a day center in the municipality Torreño.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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