"These children, many born in Alhama, eat decently thanks to grants from the school canteen during the course.
For dignity and dignity, we must continue to do so during the three summer months, taking money out of any budgetary item "say the Socialists.
The socialist municipal group of Alhama, through its municipal spokesman Diego Conesa, presented on June 13 a motion for discussion and approval at the next regular city June.
There are two purposes of the motion: a generic with a comprehensive plan and a specific and urgent: to feed "decently and with dignity" these 18 children.
The generic, and as stated in the operative part of the motion, urged "adopt, immediately, a Plan to Support Child Nutrition containing measures and sufficient resources to ensure that families with children in their care (those children) who are in need have their basic needs of food, and ensuring access for children at least three meals a day, and provide access to a balanced diet as possible to avoid problems of child malnutrition;
enabling for all the means available to the government, in collaboration with the third sector or the autonomous region, and taking into account the home environment and the school plan. "
And also urges, specifically, to act urgently to "mechanisms and actions required are established so that, from the end of this school year, aid Children dining in schools where there was room enabled remain other purposes, for those children who, detected and analyzed by the Municipal Social Services, have these shortcomings. "
According to the Socialist spokesman says, and after consultation and periodically make alhameñas the basic needs of families, "Social Service technicians have detected at least 18 children with these basic needs, and are supported to have a decent meal in the dining room school.
But this room is not operational during the summer, and these children have to eat decently and with dignity;
and the same dignity, also spending priorities, we have it from the City, even when competition over the Autonomous Region municipal ".
"We expect and hope that, as in the past has also made the Councillor for Social Services convince his colleagues of the government team of what the priorities are" ends pointing Diego Conesa.
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Source: PSOE Alhama de Murcia