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Children and young people from 11 schools in Cartagena will have the power to decide on what to invest the 110,000 euros that the City of Cartagena devotes in total to Participatory Budgeting in schools and institutes for 2019. It is the CEIP Virgen del Carmen and IES San Isidoro de Los Dolores, who participated in the pilot experience last year, plus the infant and primary schools: San Ginés de la Jara de El Llano, San Fulgencio de Pozo Estrecho;
Santa Florentina de La Palma;
Miguel de Cervantes from La Aljorra, José M. Lapuerta from Barrio Peral, and Vicente Medina from Los Dolores;
and the institutes of El Bohío;
Galileo de Pozo Estrecho and the Mediterranean IES of Mediterranean Urbanization.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, wanted to thank the centers that participated in previous editions for their work and highlights the importance of this initiative.
"If we want to build a more transparent society in which all citizens can decide in a very active way, what better to consolidate this process than teaching it from the base".
The Councilor for Administrative Decentralization, Juan Pedro Torralba, explained that last year, students from Colegio Virgen del Carmen and IES San Isidoro, pioneers in these Participatory Budgets, presented projects.
The children explained in working groups what the Participatory Budgeting initiative was for their classmates.
645 students from IES San Isidoro and 738 from Colegio Virgen del Carmen voted on which projects should be carried out with the money then allocated.
The youngest of the CEIP Virgen del Carmen chose to invest the money in the installation of a stage of 28 square meters with stairs.
In the case of IES San Isidoro, it was decided to carry out 8 of the 11 projects that were presented.
Thanks to the vote, sports equipment was renewed, benches, tables and litter bins were placed in the yard, computers and projectors were acquired, and a public address system was installed, among other things.
The mayor of Administrative Decentralization, Juan Pedro Torralba, has remembered with satisfaction the pilot experience of last year.
"It was an absolute success, I hope that this year will be repeated.
I think we're going to start on the right foot.
Together we are going to make those Participatory Budgets that have to start from below come true ".
The Councilor for Education and Transparency of the City of Cartagena, Mercedes García, claims to know, from her experience as a member of the educational community, what is an investment of money for schools and colleges.
The edile of Education wanted to congratulate the 11 centers that have been submitted for the Participatory Budgets of 2019 "for having had the initiative to participate, so it will mean for your centers this economic injection and the experience that will be magnificent. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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