EFE
Their Majesties King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía will open the school year on the 19th at the Francisco Navarro Artiles school in Puerto del Rosario, Fuerteventura, where 30 percent of the students are children of immigrants.
According to sources at the Royal House who informed Efe yesterday, the official event will take place at twelve noon and is also expected to be attended by the President of the Government of the Canary Islands, Adán Martín, and other regional and local authorities.
The Francisco Navarro Artiles school is located in the Majada de Marcial neighborhood, a new residential neighborhood located in Puerto del Rosario.
This is an area where there is already a secondary school and an ESO school, and possibly on the same day as the arrival of the Kings, a secondary center will also be inaugurated.
The Francisco Navarro Artiles school is two years old, so the Kings will open its third year.
250 primary school children have enrolled in it, that is, under 12 years of age, 30 percent of whom are children of immigrants, mainly Colombians, Argentinians, Ecuadorians and Africans and, to a lesser extent, Chinese.
The name of the center, Francisco Navarro Artiles, commemorates one of the most prestigious researchers of the customs and historians of the Canary Islands, who died three years ago.
Paco Navarro, as he was known, lived on the island, was a teacher, and left a very important legacy of ethnological studies of the islands, both for the Canarian university and for the public archives of the Cabildo of Fuerteventura and the Government of the Canary Islands.
