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PEER Programme, an initiative of the Department of Sports, Education, Youth and Social Care, with support from the Directorate of Integration of Immigrants, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, returned to the neighborhoods of Cartagena for the second consecutive year to promote the meeting of youth and adolescents from different cultural realities that coexist in certain areas of the city, through leisure activities and leisure-related sport and culture.

Again, the neighborhoods of San Antón, New Cartagena, Private Mediterranean and the Algar will be the policy areas of the program, with activities for young immigrants and natives from 10 to 18 years.

The schedule of implementation of these activities is tailored to the participants, either of them from Monday to Friday evenings or during weekends.

Colleagues This year the program is included in the municipal activities to mark the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue.

For this second edition, as well as workshops that have been made since last year have included two new activities: a workshop of graffiti and urban culture, to be held in San Anton, and the theater workshop in El Algar.

Workshops for football, volleyball, body, dance and rhythm through folklore and sports activities, and percussion will continue to develop in these areas, he pointed out the councilman of Youth, Javier Herrero.

In addition, this year the program will participate in the IX COLLEAGUES Fair Youth Associations to be held in April, and the Intercultural Week San Anton, also during the next month.

These events are also other local events where the PEER program has participated, such as sports tournaments, gymnastics displays, weeks intercultural "

Councillor for Sports, Alonso Gómez, explained that last year 252 youths (158 Spanish and other immigrants, mainly Moroccans) participated in the activities of this program and this year, and currently, there are already 115 young participants, 64 of them Spanish.

For the next few days is planning an awareness campaign in Schools Program Mediterranean and Pedro Peñalver, El Algar, in order to increase the participation of the kids.

Complementing the development of the core activities of the program, this year again be convened, in collaboration with the Institute of Youth in the Region of Murcia, a training program on intercultural mediation with adolescents and youth, consists of three specialized courses and intended to provide theoretical and practical tools for staff to be involved in this field of intercultural education.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena