Francisco Martinez Diaz is 82 and has spent almost his entire life to caring for AIDS patients.
He who is the president of the Foundation Store Asylum yesterday afternoon received the award for Voluntary Commitment, delivering award three years ago the Department of Social Services.
Shortly before receiving the award from the Social Care council, Antonio Calderón and Youth, Ruth Collado, Francisco recalled the time when he began to pick up the street to people with HIV to lead later to the hospital.
This award recognizes his work as head of the Foundation, created in 1897: a non-profit, pluralistic, non-denominational, apolitical and non-discriminatory, which develops various social programs, two of them directed to the attention of affected by HIV / AIDS since 1995, Torre Nazareth Home of Cartagena, and since 2004, WEND DO BE NE, Burkina Faso, Africa ..
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Francisco Martinez began his social work and volunteer in 1974, at Caritas South.
Since then, many projects he has led.
Highlights include the Vocational Training Centre in the neighborhood of Lo Campano opened by the Mayor Pilar Barreiro, on April 12, 1999, and approved by the Employment and Training Services of the Autonomous Community, which has already trained 2,000 students free of charge.
The document is enlivened the concert of the Coral Cartagonova, acting after the award.
Municipal Volunteer Program of the Department of Social Services of the City of Cartagena, called the Voluntary Commitment III Award to recognize the work that individual citizens and altruistic for the poor.
The commission awarded the Voluntary Commitment Award III, was made ​​by Council Social Care, Antonio Calderon, and Education, Josefa Maroto, and on behalf of Councillors for Women, Youth, Education, Municipal Institute of Social and Volunteer Platform, Antonio Mule, Peter Carmelo Lopez, Maria Angeles Yepes, Luis Antonio Perez, Maria Eugenia and Nativity Abengochea Mari, acting as secretary, Peter Negroles.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena