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The '12 .000.000 pedaladas' challenge, an initiative organized by the Cepaim Foundation and which has the collaboration of the City of Cartagena through the Department of Social Services and Social Mediation and seeks to raise awareness of the situation of citizens the refugees and raise funds to help them, made this Saturday stop in Cartagena to walk its streets.
There, the mayor of the port city, Ana Belén Castejón, the delegate councilor of Social Services and Social Mediation, Carmen Martín del Amor, and the Cepaim coordinator in Cartagena, Pedro López, welcomed the participants in this solidarity action.
This challenge covers more than 2,000 kilometers of cycling in 40 cities, from Vila Real de Santo António (Portugal) to Colliure in France, and finished its ninth stage in Cartagena, where multiple activities were carried out to complement this event.
It is a continuous awareness-raising action that wants to send a positive message regarding the reception of refugees, eliminating stereotypes, generalizations and fears towards the other.
The challenge invites the people of each of the cities by which it happens to participate in a cyclotourist route by the city acquiring a support rider whose funds will go to help the refugee people.
Each symbolic pedal equals 1 cent, each participant being able to choose the number of pedals he wants to donate.
Likewise, the event also became a day of recreation and awareness, in which people who walked through the area of ​​the Mandarache Shopping Center and the squares of the City and Heroes of Cavite, arrival point of the stage to the city and goal respectively, were aware of the circumstances surrounding these people and the fact that there are 12 million refugee children in the world who are in a situation of even greater vulnerability than adults.
The stage of this Saturday began in Totana and arrived at Cartagena through the zone near the esplanade of the Commercial Center Mandarache.
There was enabled the acquisition and collection of solidarity ridges for those who wanted to participate and, at that point, three static bikes were enabled for those who wanted to participate but did not have time to make the route.
From there he went out with the three cyclists of the Cepaim Foundation involved in the challenge and made an urban tour to the Plaza de los Heroes de Cavite, where they were received by the mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, the delegate councilor of Social Services and Social Mediation, Carmen Martín del Amor, and the coordinator of Cepaim in Cartagena, Pedro López.
At the end of the route, a series of activities and workshops were held, as well as having a series of itinerant exhibitions: a pedagogue on 'El refugio', which explained the life of a refugee and the initiatives that can be taken to help them;
another artistic, 'Refugiarte', which collected works by local artists in each of the stops of the challenge that are accumulating and taking from one point to another.
Activities at Cavite's Heroes Square included pin design and development, paperweight construction, bookmark design, ethnic beverage tasting, and a henna tattoo workshop.
In addition a local artist made a graffiti to include in the traveling exhibition and directed a workshop of the same discipline of which resulted a second work.
An enormous mosaic of cloth was also built in which anyone who wished to collaborate with his vision of diversity and interculturality could collaborate.
The municipal government acceded in September of 2015 to the intermunicipal network of reception of refugees.
An initiative that created the Network for Integration and Reception of Refugees, a coordination table in which social organizations participate together with the City Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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