A total of 21 children supervised by the regional administration on holiday on the beach at Lo Pagan San Pedro del Pinatar on the Mar Menor, where today he visited the Minister of Social Policy, Women and Migration, Joaquín Bascuñana to share summer day with them.
The children belong to Cardinal Belluga Center and Welcome House Mother Paula, that during the summer months to move to small households with Murcia on the beach to enjoy their summer holidays.
In the case of Cardinal Belluga Center, based in Murcia, currently has a total of 31 children and of those, 14 are in the center of the city and that their ages are less than two years, while the rest Housed in the Villa Miracle Center Lo Pagán, no more than seven years.
For its part, the Mother Paula's Refuge, also located in the capital of Murcia, has ten children in the present, aged between 6 and 17 years of age.
Children who are on vacation they are staying at the Residence Virgen del Mar, also in Lo Pagan.
In both cases, the Department has agreements with these schools in the funding of places for these children, whose custody has been given to the regional administration for having been victims of neglect, negligence or any kind of violence.
In the case of Cardinal Belluga, signed the agreement for an amount of 2.5 million euros and the guesthouse 379,600 euros.
Belluga attended Cardinal Center in 2008 to a total of 81 children, of whom at the end of the year remained in the center 33.
During the first seven months of this year, the Daughters of Charity, a congregation that serves the center has taken care of 66 children.
Regarding the guesthouse Mother Paula, who care for the Franciscan Sisters, attended during 2008 16 minors, of which nine remained at the center by year's end.
As for the children treated this year have been a total of 17.
The Ministry of Social Policy, Women and Immigration has a total of 1,259 children in care, said the adviser Bascuñana, of whom 274 are children who are placed in centers, 18 emergency or diagnostic programs, 235 are received by foreign families, 667 are taken in by extended family and 65 are unaccompanied minors.
Finally, the owner of Social Policy highlighted the work that the perpetrators of these centers and the importance of temporary placement campaigns have been launched from the Ministry and have allowed "some of these children in care to enjoy periods stays with friendly families, both during the past Christmas holidays and in the summer months. "
Source: CARM