| With this initiative, the Department wants to value young people, fleeing from the negative stereotypes that have spread, especially since the beginning of the pandemic | The Youth Department of the Cartagena City Council has launched a new campaign with the aim of putting young people in value, focusing on all the positive actions in which they are collaborating and fleeing from the stereotypes that have spread and that they offer a distorted face of youth, especially since the start of the pandemic.Thus, on the occasion of the celebration of the International Volunteer Day on December 5 and under the slogan 'Youth has Many Faces, #NoGeneralices', a version of young people will be shown through the different social networks of the council it may be unknown to many.The mayor of Youth, David Martínez Noguera, recalled that “with this initiative we want to show all those facets that our youth has and with which they contribute to improve our society day by day.
In the video that we present today we collect all the adjectives that define them for us, through different images of activities of the council, both before and after the start of the pandemic, showing that the small acts are what make the difference ”.The campaign will be carried out throughout the first week of December, through the social networks of the Youth Council, highlighting the figure of young volunteers, thanks to the Implica2 program and the European Volunteering program.In addition, on Friday, December 4, in collaboration with the Hemodonation Center of the Santa María del Rosell Hospital, the young people of the municipality will be encouraged to participate in a solidarity action as necessary as donating life.The activities will end on Saturday, December 5, International Day of Volunteering for Economic and Social Development, promoted by the United Nations since 1985, “with our most international volunteers, those who came to Cartagena from Europe and those who left from our municipality to carry out volunteer work, who will tell us about their experiences and experiences in the first person, through a small video ”, the councilor concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena