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The "Path of the 10,000 steps" Cotillas Towers is now a reality.

This signage project, which has helped the Association for the Integration of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities "CEOM", appeared in yesterday morning Friday, March 14 at a ceremony held in the Council Chamber of City Hall by Mayor Torreño, Domingo Coronado, and Councillor for Sports, Ginés Pérez Iniesta.

A short path trail linking downtown Cotillas Towers with its natural surroundings and allows the city to join the initiative of the "Paths of the 10,000 steps" already implemented in other towns in the region.

People with intellectual disability CEOM launched this particular initiative "Think Big" Fundación Telefónica program, which other finalists selected from 300 projects across Spain form.

Specifically, this project connects the town with the hamlet of La Rambla Salada using panels with appropriate signage and markers, making it accessible to all walkers.

"The World Health Organization recommends an average daily travel distance of 7 kilometers, equivalent to about 10,000 steps," says Pérez Iniesta, who is proud of this new "recreational and healthy option that is available to Torreño and torreñas, and visitors, thanks to the collaboration of the PEEM important partnership. "

Official Opening

Tomorrow, Sunday 16 March, the inaugural tour that CEOM Torreño Consistory and invited all the neighbors and will be led by the local mayor, Domingo Coronado will be performed.

Hikers will leave at 9 am from the Town Hall Square, in a group shall be composed of numerous persons with disabilities and their families, members of the "Trekking Association Pilgrims" Torrena users of municipal programs "Active" and gerontogimnasia, neighbors Cotillas Towers and other neighboring municipalities.

"People with intellectual disabilities and their families want to prove with this initiative they have much to contribute to their environment as full citizens in need of support but also able to contribute," says Coronado.

CEOM up, along with 26 other non-profit entities, the Federation of Societies for Persons with Mental Retardation and Cerebral Palsy (FEAPS Murcia).

All these associations share the mission of improving the quality of life of people with intellectual disabilities or cerebral palsy and their families.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas