The Intercultural Community Intervention Project in Cartagena (ICI Project), promoted by the Cepaim Foundation, the Obra Social 'la Caixa' and the City Council of Cartagena, reviews the activities in 2019 and presents the calendar for the last months of the year .
This project, which started in Cartagena in 2014, works to generate a community process that promotes intercultural citizen coexistence in these neighborhoods with a rich cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity.
The main objective is to improve the living conditions in the neighborhood, enabling local actors to face autonomously the challenges of living together and prevent conflict situations.
Throughout 2019, work has been carried out jointly with the Mesa de Salud and the Mesa de Educación y Cultura in the preparation and development of the planned actions.
Both spaces are composed of technicians and technicians of public and private entities of the territory.
The activities developed, framed in the Annual Programming of the project, are:
School Day of Nonviolence and Peace (January 30).
We celebrated this activity as a community action in the neighborhood, in San Francisco square, with the involvement of several entities in the territory, outside the educational center, as usual.
II Institutional Relationship Space (April 24).
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, presents the main challenges and conclusions of the Evaluation of the Community Process to the representatives of political groups and to the members of the Institutional Relationship Space, in the act of renewing the institutional commitment to coexistence.
V Technical Conference 'Living the Present, Building the Future' (May 30).
The conclusions and challenges of the Community Assessment are presented to technicians involved in the process, and we participate in the training 'Strategies for participation', taught by Javier Ferrer, of the Scientific Directorate of the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Conference on Health, Education and Community Culture 'Live in the Diversity of your Neighborhood' (from May 30 to June 6).
Social, educational and health entities offer a wide variety of activities to all residents of the Historic District and Station Sector, taking into account the diversity of the territory.
IV Community Meeting.
Live in your neighborhood 'Meeting Space' (June 6).
Coexistence Day in which the Community Team presents the conclusions and challenges of the Community Assessment to neighbors of the Historic District and Station Sector.
V Open Summer School.
Live in your 'Open for Vacation' Neighborhood (from June 25 to July 14).
As every year, since 2015, the Open Summer School, offers a socio-educational space to neighbors of the territory: minors, youth, women, elderly, families;
with the involvement of the entities of the neighborhoods covered by the ICI Project.
III Innovative Project.
Live in your Neighborhood 'Meeting Space' (July 5 to 18).
The Innovative Project has consisted of a Parkour workshop, aimed at young people, aged 12 to 16, from our neighborhoods and a subsequent exhibition of what was learned in the sports space of Carlos III.
For this last quarter of the month, the following activities have been developed that serve to close an active and very important year in the Community Process:
IV Innovative Project.
Live in the Diversity of your Neighborhood 'Healthy November' (November 8-29).
From the Community Health Bureau and with the involvement of the entities of the territory, a series of activities have been organized to promote the health of the neighbors of the neighborhood:
Friday 8, at 10:30 a.m.: Healthy walk, ends at 11:30 a.m., with a taichí session.
Departure and arrival at Plaza Juan XXIII
Thursday 14, at 10:30 am: we joined the Solidarity March with Sodicar, ending at 11:30 am, with a magic show.
Departure from the City Hall and arrival at the Regional Assembly.
Friday 22, at 10:30 am: Cultural Walk through the Historic District of Cartagena.
Departure from the City Hall.
Friday 29, at 9:30 AM: Healthy Walk, which starts at the Casco Histórico Health Center and ends at 10:30 AM, with a healthy breakfast and study of weight, height, body mass index and recommended diet in the Plaza San Francisco.
Global Citizen Action.
Live in the Diversity of your Neighborhood 2019 (November 17).
With the participation of the entities involved in the ICI Project and the collaboration of the citizens, a day of coexistence with different activities, workshops and informative stands will be held, in the Plaza San Francisco, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
V Innovative Project.
Live in the Diversity of your Neighborhood 'Winter School' (December 26, 27 and 28).
From the Board of Education and Community Culture and the involvement of the entities of the territory, activities aimed at children will be organized, making them coincide with a non-school period.
It will be carried out with organized groups, prior registration, promoting the resources of the territory and the planned programming during the Christmas period.
ICI PROJECT
The Intercultural Community Intervention Project, promoted by the “la Caixa†Social Work in 37 neighborhoods in Spain, in collaboration with different administrations and social entities, is a social action initiative with a preventive orientation and that fosters intercultural relations, favors social cohesion and aims to empower society for the coexistence and community development of their territories.
In Cartagena, the ICI Project has been carried out since July 2014, through the collaboration of the Cartagena City Council and the Cepaim Foundation.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena