A week of activities celebrating children’s rights

 

Adeje’s department of community welfare, under Councillor Mercedes Vargas Delgado, has begun the programme of activities for this week in the run up to World Children’s Day on November 20th.  Activities are taking place across a multitude of Adeje departments and in different parts of the borough.

 

Events are designed to involve children and adults, and help increase awareness of the rights and duties of children and families, as well as allowing them express their concerns, aspirations and opinions. 

 

Different activates are happening in the schools and colleges throughout the week, the Adeje school of music and dance has arranged a number of podcasts with students and these can be downloaded via the EMMA Facebook and Instagram pages.  There will be photo calls organised by the Los Olivos centre for special needs individuals and the Duendecillo Azul crèche with users and their families able to upload photos using the hashtag #adejeretratominfancia.

 

The sports department have organised a separate initiative, “una Carrera hacia mis derechos” (a race for my rights) on November 19th with cycling machines in place in the Las Torres centre, and people invited to cycle for children’s rights!

 

The department dealing with community welfare will run workshops in three specific blocks, asking relevant questions about the needs of children and their happiness, and from these workshops the area will work on evolving tools to help parents and families. 

 

On November 18th the departments of citizen participation and communication will work together to present two outside broadcasts in the El Galeón Outlet commercial centre.  The Viva la Vida (Spanish) programme, from 11am to 1pm, and English Time (in English) from 1pm to 1.30pm, both programmes discussing the rights and needs of children in Adeje and globally.  The English Time programme will feature interviews with Judith McFadden, therapist and wellbeing coach and with Debbie Tyas, mother of a cherished son with special needs.

 

The cultural department will be staging a theatrical productions, “Proyecto Escarcha – El Caso de Don Glotón” in the school of music auditorium