Portal de Totana

www.portaldetotana.com

Totana - SpanishTotana - English
detail of Totana

 

More than a thousand people have benefited from the actions carried out by the council of Women's Rights and Equal Opportunity (27/08/2010)

More than a thousand people in the town of Totana have benefited from the actions carried out by the Department of Women's Rights and Equal Opportunity during the first eight months of 2010.

The council of the municipal area, Josefa María Sánchez Méndez, has made a positive balance of all the awareness campaigns and prevention of gender violence as well as specific training has been offered to the female population.

Méndez Sánchez recalled have been different fields and subjects that have been treated to have been aimed at all groups of the municipality, regardless of age of the target group.

The mayor explained that they must continue to fight for women are the protagonists in relevant areas of public life, so as a public service must achieve real equality with the support of other authorities, the institutional structure of Totana, and the totanera society support and from here we declare our commitment to continue promoting gender equality and the fundamental value and determinant of women in our society and its future.

All these actions have had the cooperation of the Institute of Women of the Region of Murcia, has been framed in the Second Plan for Equal Opportunities, have been divided into several areas of action.

On the one hand, in the area of awareness and information has been called the Drawing Competition IV equality and coeducation aimed at students in grades 5 and 6 primary in order to sensitize the students.

In addition, framed in the area of gender violence and commemorating the International Day of Violence against Women, also held the III Art Contest for Equality, whose registration for the new edition is now open.

Within the area of reconciliation of work, family and staff have done interesting things, among which have highlighted the participation of more than 600 students from primary schools in the municipality in the "Sharing kitchen for children" .

In this same area of operation was also carried out an activity animation "The Tale animated: tales non-sexist" by the Collective for Social Promotion "The Candle" in collaboration with the Department of Women and Equal Opportunities, with reason the celebration of World Book Day. "

Councilwoman Women and Equal Opportunities explained that within the area of culture, leisure and sport have organized workshops on Storytelling for Equality in School Children, whose primary goal was to break social stereotypes and promote a culture based on the principle of equality, through the representation of stories in infant schools, to begin work on children these principles.

Following in this same area, according to Sanchez Mendez, was called the II Tales and Stories for Equality, Totana 2010, winning first prize of 400 euros in the adult category, belonging to Juan Carlos Perez Lopez for the story " Through the glass "and the first prize for the child category is a Gift in school supplies valued at $ 200, belonging to Charles Canovas Alonso, the school" Tierno Galván "for his play" A Woman in Africa. "

Prizes will be awarded in September.

In the area of gender violence, the Department has developed various awareness activities aimed at schools, women associations, and generally the whole population totanera.

Among the highlights in this area have been the competitions which call for schools to raise awareness and address this issue in the classroom, the discussions that have taken place in women's organizations on the prevention of gender violence, and meetings that through the Commission on Gender Violence.

Another action undertaken in the area of Social Participation, which has been conducted through the Municipal Council for Equal Opportunity, gathered through its Standing Committee and General Assembly on 18 and 25 January for work on the draft criteria and baremación to be taken into account when making the tribute on the professional and personal history of women totaneras occasion of International Women's Day, March 8.

These bases was approved by the General Assembly and the Council of Totana Full Council in February 2010.

Therefore, a result of regulation of the bases of the tribute March 8 this year for the first time women were honored not only belong to the network of associations of women, but to other areas, by extending the nomination of women in any field of social, economic, political and cultural life of the town of Totana.

In this area also highlights the cooperation of the council in the First Conference of living of mothers and children of Spanish and Ecuadorian-RM ADIPSAI organized and carried out in order to ensure integration and awareness among women of origin Ecuadorian and Spanish women and through them and their families get a civic and multicultural in the town of Totana, creating a space for information, reflection and interaction among participants, which clarify the role of women in society totanera.

In the area of training, there have been several workshops on social skills, job search, health, basic and advanced information technology, prevention of domestic violence, family planning, therefore we have with the collaboration of the Institute of Women Murcia, the Federation of Women of the Region of Murcia, and the departments, particularly the Department of Citizen Participation and New Technologies.

70 women benefited from these workshops.

The Department of Women and equality organized every year in collaboration with other councils, women's associations and the Municipal Council for Equal Totana, activities and events to mark important dates such as International Women's Day, March 8 ; International Day for Women's Health, May 28, International Day of Rural Women, 15 October, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25, among other activities.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana

Notice
UNE-EN ISO 9001:2000 - ER-0131/2006 Región de Murcia
© 2024 Alamo Networks S.L. - C/Alamo 8, 30850 Totana (Murcia) Privacy policy - Legal notice - Cookies
Utilizamos cookies propias y de terceros para facilitar su navegación en la página web, conocer cómo interactúas con nosotros y recopilar datos estadísticos. Por favor, lee nuestra Política de Cookies para conocer con mayor detalle las cookies que usamos, su finalidad y como poder configurarlas o rechazarlas, si así lo considera.