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The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, and the deputy director general of the La Caixa Foundation, Marc Simón, appeared this morning on Tuesday, November 21, to explain the details of the framework project for collaboration between the City Council and the Foundation to initiate the Second phase of the Project of Intercultural Community Intervention (ICI) in the Historic District and the Sector Station.
It is an initiative promoted by the Obra Social "la Caixa" and develops the City of Cartagena and the Cepaim Foundation.
The text has been signed by the City of Cartagena, the Cepaim Foundation, the Banking Foundation "la Caixa", CaixaBank, Area II of Health, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, the Regional Museum of Modern Art, the Neighborhood Association of the Sector Station, the Patronage School of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the La Huertecica Collective and the Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and with it, it legitimizes and recognizes the steps taken by the different administrations, technicians and citizens to improve coexistence and social cohesion in this territory.
A firm that allows "consolidate the line of work that was started 3 years ago", an ICI project that Cartagena feel as their own, an indicator that "things are doing very well", the mayor considered.
An important advance in the construction of a model of intervention articulated from the cultural diversity of the neighborhoods, in which different public and private entities participate, but which has as "authentic protagonists the neighbors".
A way of working that is not exempt from difficulties, but that allows converting the difficulties found in "great future challenges".
In his speech they wanted to express special thanks to Cepaim and the La Caixa Foundation, as well as to those who in previous terms worked to make this project possible, with which he has wished to continue working and improving in the future.
"Social policies are going to be, and are, in the front line of the municipal political strategy of the Government of Cartagena team," said Castejón.
The second phase of the ICI project seeks to consolidate the framework of collaboration among the various agents participating in it to ensure: an integrated and transversal action, optimization of networking, a stable and permanent intervention model and create opportunities and open spaces for participation for the whole community.
Likewise, we will also work on updating the diagnosis and analyzing the environment in which we work.
The Institutional Relationship Space (ERI) is created with which the cooperation and inter-institutional coordination work between public entities and social initiatives will be guaranteed.
Finally, the socialization of knowledge that allows the protagonists of the process to participate under equal conditions is guaranteed.
The challenges that have been marked with the signing of this agreement are: the consolidation of the community process, the sustainability of the process through the assumption of all the participants of their responsibility, update of the community diagnosis and programming, nurturing the process with new technical contributions to gain transversality and recover public spaces of the historic center and the station sector as spaces for intercultural coexistence.
In the words of Castejón, "today we can say that we have gone from a community project to the community process".
A CONSOLIDATED PROJECT
Community work is the main bet of the ICI Project.
Some of the most important measures already underway have been the development of a Community Programming, the creation and continuity of work spaces among technicians, a space for citizen participation, various actions for the benefit of coexistence and social cohesion.
The Open Summer School and the Global Citizen Action are the main activities that are developed in the territory to promote health and community education.
Likewise, a guide of resources has been developed and the reuse of public spaces for the benefit of the establishment of neighborhood relations within the framework of the Innovative Project is promoted, all this counting on the diversity of the existing population in the neighborhoods of the Historic District and Sector Station.
This agreement is part of the ICI Project, deployed by the Obra Social "la Caixa" in a total of 37 territories in 31 different municipalities throughout Spain.
In 2014, the first agreement that promoted the ICI Project in the territory of Cartagena was signed.
A project born of the need to face a new reality that, with the migratory movements of our society, make cities increasingly diverse.
As a result of this phenomenon, territories with high cultural diversity were selected to work specifically on the integration of the social fabric at the neighborhood level.
The ICI Project is becoming the fundamental axis of social action in the new multicultural context.
The objectives of the ICI Project are to improve the living conditions in the neighborhood, to train local actors to face autonomously the challenges of coexistence and to prevent situations of conflict.
The existence of this space means sustainability to provide coordinated and integrated responses that cities of the 21st century need.
Given the social and cultural diversity, it is necessary to identify strategies that revert to intercultural integration and favor social cohesion, being aware that we are facing a crisis context, where attitudes and behaviors that are sometimes discriminatory are accentuated.
This institutional commitment has had the presence of Cartagena, Francisco José Calderón, Councilor of the Area of ​​Quality of Life, Health, Consumption and Environment and 2nd Lieutenant Mayor, Carmen Martín, Councilor for Social Services, David Martínez, Delegate Councilor for Culture, Education and Equality, Marc Simón, Deputy General Director of Social Programs of the "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, Francesc Ventura, Director of the ICI Program of the "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, Diego García-Esteller, Director of the Caixabank Business Area at Cartagena, Juan Antonio Segura, Director of the Cepaim Foundation, Asensio López, Managing Director of the Murcian Health Service, Alejandro Díaz, UPCT Grand Director, Pilar Valero, General Secretary of the Department of Tourism, Culture and Environment, Fulgencio Sánchez, President of the Association of Neighbors of Sector Station, Sr. Rosina García, Director of the Patronato Sagrado Corazón de Jesús School, Joaquí
n Ferrando, Pastor of the Church of Sagrado Corazón de Jesús and Diego Cruzado, President of the La Huertecica Collective Association.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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