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The Department of Environment, Agriculture and Water of the City of Las Torres de Cotillas is participating, for the second consecutive year in the "Book Project", sponsored by the Directorate General of Environmental Quality of the Ministry of Industry and Environment, whose goal is to collect books and school supplies to good use for Spanish-speaking children in schools and community centers in countries such as Peru and Nicaragua.
With the slogan "Share the recycling culture" and the basic objective of reuse, this initiative aims to assist the growth and progress of estospaíses, promoting sustainable development through the reuse of materials and infrastructure Ecoparks Network of the Region of Murcia.
It also seeks recovery of these materials, which otherwise would become waste, delivering it in depressed areas of Spanish-speaking Americas.
To promote this project in the town, the said Department has contacted local schools to educate the youth Torreño the importance of this humanitarian action.
An initiative that aims to make progress in developing countries, providing them with books and educational materials for citizens who are no longer considered useful in their homes and can be used to train and educate present and future generations of Spanish-speaking countries who lack financial resources, while promoting recycling and reuse in the Region of Murcia.
Education, values and culture
The Torreño who want to add their small contribution to this project may deposit the material in local schools, at City Hall and Municipal Library.
There you will find boxes for temporary storage of materials provided to be transferred to municipal Ecoparque, where volunteers from the partner NGOs selected and packaged for onward shipment to final destination.
For another objective of this project is to demonstrate that the figure of the municipal parks can go further, collaborating not only in the proper management of hazardous waste and bulky you provide, but can also serve as a collection of materials reusable, such as textbooks and teaching materials, where it is sorted and packaged by volunteers of the NGO's partners, for onward shipment to final destination.
"The importance of this initiative lies in its dual spirit: on the one hand, to support the education of children in these countries, and, secondly, to reinforce our social values and human to share our culture by recycling," said Immaculate Fernández, Councillor for the Environment, Agriculture and Water Towers Cotillas.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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