The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, accompanied by the councilor of Social Services, César Rijo, and the program coordinator of the Adsis Foundation in the Canary Islands, Leticia Curbelo, presented this Monday, June 30, at the Casa Benito Pérez Armas in Yaiza, the project Yaiza Plan Corresponsable, an integral initiative of family reconciliation and care for children in vulnerable situations, which has begun this week benefiting 30 families in the municipality.
The project will be developed until the month of December in municipal public facilities, with the objective of offering an alternative, safe, and healthy space for minors that helps prevent risky situations and, at the same time, allows families to advance in their personal, work, and social reconciliation, combining activities for minors and workshops with adults.
Aimed at boys and girls from 6 to 12 years old residing in the municipality, it will be developed at the CEIP Playa Blanca, in the morning, during the school vacation period, and at the Playa Blanca Library, in the afternoon, at the beginning of the new school year. The plan also includes a service that will guarantee breakfast and lunch for minors during their participation in the summer program, and dinner in the afternoon program, thus ensuring comprehensive care.
“Today, this Plan Corresponsables, on which we have been working for a long time with the entire Social Services team and together with Adsis, is finally starting up,” began the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, proudly, to then explain that “it is not a summer camp but a complementary tool for families with needs,” clarifying that, in this case, “Social Services are the ones who refer the families” and that they have been selected according to technical criteria linked to the IPREM.
“It is an initiative that we see with great affection and with great need in the municipality,” added Noda, indicating that the 30 available places have been filled and congratulating and thanking “all those who have intervened, because it has been difficult but we have achieved it.”
For her part, Leticia Curbelo, on behalf of the Adsis Foundation in the Canary Islands, wanted to thank the City Council and all the staff “for the technical and human effort to make it possible,” highlighting that they have been trying to move this project forward for approximately three years. “We have developed a design adapted to the reality we have found in the municipality,” she detailed excitedly, “a brilliant and unique project for a brilliant and unique municipality.”
Curbelo argued that the idea “is to help these families get out of that moment of vulnerability so that other families can also access this program” and pointed out that they already have almost a dozen minors on the waiting list.
The coordinator explained that during the vacation period, it will take place from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the CEIP Playa Blanca, carrying out different types of activities, both leisure and with educational resources and promotion of culture and traditions, while during the school period, it will be in the afternoon at the Playa Blanca Library.
It will also offer school reinforcement and other activities that promote learning, well-being, and integral development, not only of the minors but also of the families, since “we also work with them and try to give them tools and instruments that allow them to improve reconciliation, parenting, and a series of issues in which we have seen that they need support. Because the Plan Corresponsables is not only a space for the care of minors but for the care of families.”
Subsequently, authorities and technicians visited the CEIP Playa Blanca, where families and the team of professionals who will carry out the project experienced an inaugural and festive day as a first contact. During the same, the mayor and the coordinator of Adsis took the opportunity to explain directly to the families what the ‘Yaiza Plan Corresponsable’ consists of and thank the director of the center, Víctor Sangil, for the transfer of the facilities, who expressed his satisfaction for hosting an initiative that favors the integral development of minors.
The project has 90,000 euros of funding from the State, channeled through the Government of the Canary Islands, and is framed in the Plan Corresponsables of the Government of Spain, a program carried out by Spanish municipalities with the aim of consolidating the path initiated towards guaranteeing care as a right and favoring the reconciliation of families with children, from the perspective of equality.
