Students of the ALDE workshop were responsible for putting it into practice |
The Nursing Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, located in the Barrio de la Concepción, is a year behind his reforms and the mayor Thursday, Pilar Barreiro, visited their facilities to see your progress with the urban garden they designed in gardens, and accompanied by the Councillor for Social Care, Antonio Calderon.
A dozen students Workshop Garden Design Urban Gardens, organized by the Agency of Local Development and Employment (ALDE), the City of Cartagena, the past school year to spice up this garden within their program practices were responsible and as a prelude to further their training in media companies step.
Now the elders of the Asylum, a total of 48, enjoy this garden supervised by the same instructor who taught the course.
Melons, carrots or tomatoes are some of the produce grown in the center and, at present, are looked after our elders.
The garden has a dual role as the Mayor pointed out today, is that in addition to serving as supply atendiéndolo residents enjoy every day with the help of monitors and already making a hobby for these seniors.
For its part, the provincial sister in this congregation, Carmen explained that the Asylum is already at full capacity, but we still have a lot of help from Cartagena to keep this center is that we are not enough pension elders, we need the generosity of our city.
Thirty members make up the staff, workers and volunteers who are responsible for caring for 48 elderly, but the capacity is for 65 Asylum What happens is that most elderly people ask us are sick and to place them we have a limit of 25 he concluded.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena