The mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, and the Minister of Family and Equality of Opportunities, Violante Tomás, visited Monday the summer resort that the Children's Home of Cartagena has in La Manga del Mar Menor.
It is a summer residence in which they spend their holidays approximately twenty children between 0 and 6 years old, as well as some of their siblings, supervised by the Child Protection Service of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia .
The Hogar de la Infancia de Cartagena, attached to this service, is run by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
During the visit, the first mayor and the councilor, as well as other members of the municipal corporation like Antonio Calderón, Francisco Espejo, Carolina Palazón or Esperanza Nieto, have been able to know this center and its day to day.
Thus, they have checked firsthand where they sleep, how they eat breakfast or what recreational and leisure activities these boys and girls do, among many other issues.
The mayor praised the "fantastic work" that is done by the people working in the residence and recalled that the small and small need "the help of the administrations and also the pampering of these great professionals" who They care.
Ana Belén Castejón has made sure to feel "proud to collaborate" within the competencies of the City Council, which correspond mainly to the Social Services Area in conjunction with the Department of Family and Equality of Opportunities and the General Directorate of it.
Therefore, he stressed the importance of "being able to help these children have a happy stay here in the summer" and has advocated "solving" the problems they may have and "continuing to meet objectives" as well as "continuing to work all Administrations "in that direction.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena