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On December 30th, the Municipal Plenary approved, on the initiative of MC, a motion urging the declaration of Cultural Interest (BIC) of the House of the Child, a building that symbolizes the history of the good feelings of the Carthaginians.

The MC Heritage Coordinator María Dolores Ruiz said that "we have waited six months for a response from the General Directorate of Cultural Property after the petition was registered on January 25 by the Councilor for Culture and Heritage, Ricardo Mowed ".

"That silence, which is so familiar to us coming from the regional administration, in this case honors the said 'The lack of news is good news' and on July 25, 2017 is filed automatically, by silence of the competent body, Good Of Cultural Interest with the category of monument, the House of the Child.We begin to see, in this way, the disappearance of the prefabricated barracks where our children remain cramped and the neglect of the abandonment of its main façade in the center of our city, Ruiz has indicated.

The initiation by ministry of the Law as BIC of the House of the Child is based on article 13.2 of Law 4/2007, of March 16, on Cultural Heritage of CARM, which states that "had it been Filed at the request of a party, the initiation agreement shall be notified to the applicants within a maximum period of six months from the request for initiation of the declaration procedure, after which, without having been adopted and notified, the initiation shall be deemed to have been agreed upon.

In this way, Casa del Niño already has the protection granted by its status as a Property of Cultural Interest in articles 14 and 15, which affects both licenses already granted and new licenses.

María Dolores Ruiz has recalled that it is a "more than deserved initiation as a tribute to Cartagena, a city that was advanced on March 18, 1908 to the official educational action: the publication of the Regulation of the Protection of Children Act ', After which localities such as Cartagena were obliged to form the local Boards for the protection of children and repression of begging. "

Incoation that pays tribute, has reported the coordinator of Heritage of MC, "D. Félix Martí Alpera, who launched the idea of ​​the construction of the House of the Child, a property that would not only have school functions but would accommodate children Totally abandoned and partially neglected.An open-air school for the children who ate there and who, for sanitary and hygienic reasons, needed fresh air.A graduate school of six sections, which also had a library, museum, Conferences, workshop, room of views ".

Similarly, María Dolores Ruiz stressed that "the opening thanks to the work of our Carmen Conde in the school closet (1918)." The men and women who served in the school cafeteria that already in 603 gave about 608 meals a day. Of the nursery school and girls, which later was added the so-called Drop of Milk, whose poster still prays in the decrepit facade, and whose goal was to attend infant feeding and avoid deaths associated with enteritis. , Medical consultations for children and even a Maternity Institute for the observation and care of pregnant women, which began in February 1931. "

The House of the Child, one of the most beautiful pages in the history of Cartagena, did not go unnoticed by Julio More Garcia, Benito Garcia Soto and Eugenio Ramirez Mateo who, as representatives of their respective associations, urged a Dismissed declaration as a Property of Cultural Interest, collecting MC that work.

It should be noted that there were 21 teaching centers that supported this initiative, which will be invited to commemorate the creation of the Benefit Rifle, which will be 100 years old in February 2018

All this is the Casa del Niño, that old and abandoned building in the center of Cartagena that, since the 25th, has the protection granted by the Heritage Law after its self-initiation as a Property of Cultural Interest.

In 1934, on the occasion of the death of the main promoter of the House of the Child, Ginés Arles García, Presencia magazine, of the Popular University of Cartagena, dedicated an emotional lines to him reminding the building, that perfectly define the friendly tone of its architecture : "On that clear morning of April, blinding blue, the School of the Child was like a smile. It would seem that the shadow of Gabriela Mistral, the teacher par excellence, had placed its sweetness on them."

For María Dolores Ruiz, it is time for us to "take back that sweetness, that smile of the schools of the House of the Child. We are facing a new beginning, a new opportunity that gives us history."

Finally, the Coordinator of Patrimony of the Cartagena formation has expressed her satisfaction because "the good work and the permanent vindication of MC will allow to become a prompt reality the withdrawal of the barracks that currently host the children of CEIP San Isidoro and Santa Florentina, as well as the installation of the Regional Restoration Center.We hope to see how these works are executed this summer. "

Source: MC