The Ministry of Family and Equal Opportunities approved this Friday the granting of the first 16,360 bonuses to childrenaid of 200 euros per child between 4 and 12 years old to participate in activities taking place outdoors … of the school calendar. This was announced by the head of this department and vice-president of the regional government of Castilla y León, Isabel Blanco, who assured that more than 35,000 requests had been registered for this support, launched this year.
The Official Community Bulletin published this Friday the resolution and a “initial” list of beneficiariesBlanco detailed, although “in the coming weeks” another with more recipients will be approved. And among the requests, some must “primarily remedy the lack of documentation” in the processing. “We understood that it was important to partially resolve this problem at this time, as the year ends,” said the advisor about the aid which has a budget in this appeal of 16 million euros. The families benefiting from this first phase number 11,911, according to data provided by the department headed by Isabel Blanco.
The counselor provided this data during her visit to the Nuestra Señora de la Asunción school in Salamanca, which developsactivity ‘We reconcile Christmas» for children aged 3 to 12 whose families work during these school holidays. As detailed, during this Christmas period, 3,108 children in over 190 centers across the Community are participating in this program. Blanco considered that this initiative, which is the “flagship” of the ministry, has developed gradually over time. Concretely, during the last financial year, participants increased by 15 percent, reaching 25,500 minors in 194 educational centers, according to Isabel Blanco. In this sense, he stressed that it is an initiative that It also reaches small communities of Castile and León. Thus, he recalled that 50 percent of the participants reside in rural areas and that it is an activity that benefits family “reconciliation” in these places, generates “opportunities” and allows “to establish the population”. The center visited this Friday by the advisor offers the “Conciliamos Comprend” variant, which, after being launched in Valladolid in 2021, is now extended to the entire Community for families in vulnerable situations and in schools with “high socio-educational complexity”. In these cases, children can participate in the activity even if their parents do not have conciliation needs, Familia said, since the goal is “greater and better” social integration.
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