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This morning, Friday, November 17, was held the Extraordinary Children's Plenary Session of the City of Cartagena, which has chaired the mayor, Lola Carrión, and have led the councilors of groups A, B, C and D, sixth grade of primary of the CEIP San Isidoro and Santa Florentina.

The students of this school occupied this morning the seats of the Plenary Hall, in a session open to the public that could be followed live through the Youtube Channel of the City Council.

An activity that is celebrated on the occasion of the next commemoration of the approval of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child on November 20.

In total, about 100 students participated in the event this morning.

The teachers and the students of the school have prepared this educational activity conscientiously, in which each of the students has interpreted a role like the ones that really develop in a real plenary session.

This initiative is part of a didactic unit that has been held in the center between municipal technicians of the Department of Education and teachers to teach students the functioning of public institutions and local government.

The day began with the seat of the 27 members of the Plenary, the mayor, the deputy mayor, the secretary and the intervener at the presidential table, and their councilors in the side seats.

After the announcement of the responsible ordinance of the Town Hall that it was a public session, the students who worked as journalists and the general public have been seated in their place.

The mayor, Ana Belén Castejón, and the delegated councilor for Education, David Martínez, have given them before the plenary session the last advice so that everything would turn out perfect.

After the opening session by the mayor, the secretary, Lucia Alfonso, has read the agenda.

Then the spokesperson of group A, Paloma Gómez, has presented his motion on the situation of health treatment in schools.

From his group it has been requested that a nursing room be enabled and that there be qualified personnel to assist the students when necessary.

The second motion of the day was presented by the spokesperson of group B, Miguel Pinzolas, who has advocated the right to receive an education that promotes solidarity, friendship and justice.

After a presentation of the background in which she highlighted the importance of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child, and remember the figure of Malala Yousafzai as an example of active defender of these rights, group D has presented an action plan for the municipality from Cartagena.

In the same it is established that talks are given in the municipality on solidarity, friendship and justice;

have assemblies with students, make solidarity markets to raise funds for the most needy, enable a tax to raise funds for the most disadvantaged children, establish a protocol to deal with the problems of children who do not respect the rules of coexistence, encourage the friendship between all schools and create days of coexistence with families.

The spokesperson of group C, Victoria Oame, has defended a right divided into 3 parts: right to decent housing, which must be made effective by the City Council;

right to health, for whose defense it has been requested that more money be donated to hospitals for research;

and the right to food, for which it has been requested that more soup kitchens be opened, and that there be canteens in all schools.

Finally the spokesperson of group D, Lucia Serrano, has expressed the concern of her group for the discrimination in some schools to students because of race, religion and social situation.

To tackle this problem, it has been requested that new financial aid be created for the most disadvantaged families.

All the motions have been approved by the Plenary, and after each of them some of the councilors have explained the meaning of their vote.

After the session has been the turn of the press, which has had the opportunity to ask questions directly to the council.

Some of the questions have been preceded by a simulated live connection in which they have given way to the intervention of the councilor.

With the question time of the media the activity that the students have lived as if it were a real plenum session, and with which they have been able to know in detail the activity, sometimes little known even by the adults, of the Corporation Municipal.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena