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The childhood home of Cartagena of the Daughters of Charity, or as it is popularly known in the area, the BDC is a center in which you work with young who are affected by situations of conflict in their families.
The mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, wanted to see first hand how they work at home and made this morning a visit for its facilities.
We have accompanied the councilman of Greater Quality of Life, Francisco Calderon;
the mayor of Social Services, Carmen Martin;
and the coordinator of the same council, Damián Pérez.
Kitchen, put baths, rooms with several beds, wide aisles, a large outdoor park and various play areas make up this center which currently have 26 children.
infants 0 to 6 years are welcomed, although Sister Francisca has afiramdo if brothers arrive with 7 and 8, they are also kept.
The average stay is one year, although they try to be the minimum time.
Sister Francisca own sister explained how the system works: either re: children, when they arrive, a system of assessment and study in coordination with the technical manager of Protective Services, in the shortest possible time, provide an alternative set with their parents, family of origin or give an alternative future of a pre-adoptive placement.
Jose Lopez stressed the excellent location of cleaning and maintenance which is the host through the work they do the sisters, who work 24 hours a day with the neediest children.
From the City will move forward, we will continue to help and if we can we will get even more media, while today and take over the payment of water, electricity or maintenance of gardens.
They should continue to have access to municipal funds because Cartagena can not do without the work they do, and if you can bring any idea to tender a contest within a competitive, we are willing to support them and advise them.
He also took the opportunity to call on parents who volunteer to go to work or to lend a hand to those children who need a family, although it has already highlighted the 29 people who go there to work.
Sister Francisca thanked the people who attend as volunteers, as well as the agreement with the UCAM for students who come to practice.
He has also made a call to special placements are enhanced, that is, cases where a child has special needs or is it more than 10 or 12 years.
All the children who come to us are protected, but they come with many shortcomings here and try to remedy them, to heal them.
ANOTHER QUESTIONS
At the request of journalists, the mayor answered questions about possible car parks in Los Belones and commitment of the Old Town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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