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The representatives of the Local Board of Children and Adolescents today called for the right to life, health, food, drinking water and protection for all children during the reading of a manifesto they have read together with the mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, in the Health Fair, held in the framework of the I Healthy Week with different activities in which, in recent days, some 3,500 children and young people from all over the municipality have participated,
Mayor José Miguel Luengo underlined the municipal commitment with the youngest that has materialized with the adhesion of San Javier to the Network of Friends of Children of UNICEF, and other initiatives such as the implementation of the Local Children's Table and The Health Knowledge Bank for Children and Adolescents.
In this context and coinciding with the celebration of 7 April, World Health Day and International Sport Day is organized this Healthy Week whose goal is to promote healthy living habits among schoolchildren, said Luengo who thanked the implication Of schools, where they have previously worked on topics such as food, with work and initiatives presented today at the Fair.
From the early hours of the morning the children who were arriving at the Plaza de España, were able to practice sport with music, pass by the sanitary prevention stand where a team of students was in charge of carrying out a study of each one.
They have also passed the San Javier Civil Protection campaign hospital whose volunteers have transmitted notions of first aid and preventive habits.
Food has been one of the most important issues with a healthy breakfast of fruit, distributed by volunteers from the Bank of Time, and the exhibition of a giant food pyramid made by the students themselves, as well as monographic works such as one on sugar, And recipes for healthy dishes.
There was also time for the claim and the representatives of the Local Board of Children and Adolescents expressed some of their proposals in relation to Health and healthy habits as more sports equipment for schools, to give utility to vacant lots, and more events Between schools.
They have also proposed that the City Council facilitate a periodic visit of a doctor to schools to talk about healthy living, repeat every quarter the distribution of fruit at recess, wider and longer bike lanes, and more visible traffic signs.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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