Cartagena held a major celebration on Saturday, May 16, in Los Juncos Park, with their Family Day workshop. The activity was a chance for children, young people, parents, and grandparents to get together and enjoy a variety of leisure activities, fostering both participation, healthy activity, and coexistence among neighbours.

A celebration that brought young people, parents, and grandparents together in Los Juncos Park

During the Family Day celebration, attendees enjoyed a mobile disco, a family photobooth, a car circuit, games, and workshops, including for makeup, canvas-painting, and badge-making. The initiative was also aimed at helping families through various programmes and resources. The Cartagena City Council had set up an information tent to make resources available for children, adolescents, and families. 

One of the main focuses of the day was to continue promoting the need for policies to help families and facilitate a work-life balance, with measures that improve well-being in the municipality and help families financially.

Aid to families: How Cartagena helps struggling parents with financial aid and free programmes

Additionally, it was noted that Cartagena has more than 1,000 available free slots in municipal nursery schools, helping families save more than €500,000 a year and making it easier for parents to balance their work and family life.

The Cartagena City Council, during the event, also informed attendees of the direct maternity aid promoted by the city’s officials, as well as the family respite programmes, and the home help and care programmes for those dependent on it.

Social groups participate in the event

During the event, a variety of social entities and groups that work in favour of child protection, inclusion, and family support participated. It was a day that fostered inclusion and connecting as a community, as well as promoting work-life balance, equal opportunities for all, and support for struggling households in the municipality.

The Department of Youth of the Mazarron Town Council is preparing to launch a new healthy springtime initiative in the month of May, the CaminaFit Music Walk. This activity will come to the municipality for the very first time and combine sport, music, and entertainment in a fun initiative by the municipality’s famous seaside.

An immersive music experience along the coastline

The CaminaFit Music Walk will consist of an immersive walk along five kilometres of the coastline, where participants will walk to music through wireless headphones. This will merge physical exercise, dance, and fun in this workshop designed for people of all ages and fitness levels to participate.

With this initiative, Mazarron officials aim to promote healthy lifestyle habits and offer active leisure alternatives, while also contributing to the physical and emotional wellbeing of the residents of the municipality. The experience will be fun, dynamic, and high in participation, so any interested parties are encouraged to register.

How does the CaminaFit Music Walk work?

Led by an energetic trainer, the CaminaFit Music Walk experience is a highly popular one not only on the Costa Calida, but in the whole of Spain. Various other municipalities along the Mediterranean coastline have taken part in this fun-filled activity, and it is a great way to socialise and get active. 

The meeting point for the activity will be the Rihuete parking lot next to the Bowling Club. Check-in will begin at 9:30am and departure is scheduled for 10:00am. Registration costs just €5 and requires prior booking through the official website, caminafit.com. CaminaFit organisers will provide headphones to the participants. The Youth Department has encouraged residents and visitors to take part in this programme that will merge sport, a beautiful coastline, and socialising among Mazarron neighbours.

Murcia, the destination of choice for sport leisure

Murcia is increasingly a leisure and sport destination, with the Costa Calida being a popular hotspot for these kinds of sporting and health initiatives. The Region of Murcia is known for active initiatives, as well as those that prioritise health; recently, the region impressed with surging numbers of registrations for bone marrow donors after a successful campaign. 

Additionally, triathlons, 5K races, and other types of sporting initiatives are picking up traction on the Costa just ahead of peak season. Whether walking with neighbours or taking part in an epic battle of athleticism, the residents of Murcia are showing their prowess when it comes to staying active.

Throughout the month of May, the Costa Calida municipality of Mazarron will host the Exhibition of the XXIX Road Safety Education Conference at its Cultural Centre. The conference will unite more than 1,000 schoolchildren from all of Mazarron’s educational centres, to participate in exhibitions of models, collages, and school projects, all related to road safety education.

A fundamental project to unite more than 1,000 students from Mazarron

Officially beginning on May 13 and lasting until May 31, the exhibition will feature 56 projects from preschool students, 90 collages made by first and second year students, and 88 models from students in the fifth and sixth years. Meanwhile, the projects made by the students from the third and fourth years were featured at the Road Safety Education Festival, held in April.

Detailed dioramas made by the students feature roads, small cars, and buildings

Namely, the exhibition features dioramas made by the students to represent city and town roads, including details like painted lines on the roads, different signs, stationed traffic officers overseeing the transport, and structured roundabouts. Surrounding these, the students have created models of homes, hotels, shops, trees, plants, and of course, little cars and buses to traverse the roads of their small towns and cities.

Where to see the students’ exhibitions

This exhibition will be open to the public at Mazarron’s Casa de La Cultura, or Cultural Centre, located at Calle Entierro de la Sardina, 65. It will be free to enter and is available for viewing during the regular opening hours of the building.

This programme forms an essential part of the educational curriculum of the young students of Mazarron. Working on these exhibitions not only educates the students about road safety; it also lets children get creative with their projects and teaches them important values including teamwork, coexistence, and listening to others’ ideas. It is just one of the ways that Mazarron gets creative with its students in order to teach them important life and social skills.