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The Edukalo program, established four years ago in San Pedro del Pinatar, includes the figure of a gypsy mediator and a program of socio-educational workshops.
The mayor of San Pedro del Pinatar, Visitation Martinez, and the delegate of the Regional Federation of Roma (FAGA) in Murcia, Juan Garcia Santiago, today signed a collaboration agreement for the development of educational support program Edukalo, in collaboration with the departments of Education and Volunteering.
Under this agreement, the Edukalo plan is included in the measures of the Municipal Plan for the Prevention and Control of Absenteeism (PAE), through a mediator who works directly with schools and socio-educational families and workshops six weekly hours with a total of 20 Roma children.
For the development of these workshops, which develop in the Center
Emerging Leisure and Arts, FAGA has the support of local volunteer plan.
In addition, a classroom is transferred in the same center during the month of July to perform FAGA summer school in the town.
The mayor has said that the common goal of this initiative is to ensure the continuity of the students in their studies and prevent truancy situations.
At the signing ceremony was also attended by the secretary general of FAGA, Juan Fernández Gil, who has valued the continuity of the project in San Pedro del Pinatar, and sociologist and promoter of Edukalo Nicolas Gimenez, who said that the real success of this program is the normalization of students in the education system and improve their academic performance.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Pedro del Pinatar
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