Equation Councillor for Culture and the City of Ceuta, Josefa Hurtado and President of the UNESCO Centre in Murcia, Pablo Reverte, signed today at the Press Club Murcia an agreement by which the municipal corporation will finance the construction of a classroom education in Paraguay.
With this agreement the city of Ceuta is added to a project involving other institutions and associations of Murcia for providing facilities, vehicles and other domestic media in a pilot in the Paraguayan Chaco region, home to two dozen indigenous groups.
Together with representatives of the Union of Cooperative Education in the Region of Murcia (UCOERM) and the Cooperative Union of Murcia (UCOMUR) reported that the Indians are given Castilian-Guarani bilingual education, preschool and vocational training various trades.
The Gran Chaco Sudamericano spans Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, Paraguay and Paraná rivers and the Andean highlands, and is the largest forest area in South America after the Amazon.
The cooperation project also seeks to protect fragile natural resources of the Chaco, because biodiversity is subject to many human pressures and shows a degradation of ecosystems driven by an intense use of natural resources associated with ranching and logging.
More recently, the poor planning of the expansion of agriculture, oil and gas exploration and infrastructure mega projects have negatively impacted the Chaco.
Photo: From left to right, Guillermina Sanchez, UCOERM counselor, the president of the UNESCO Centre in Murcia, Pablo Reverte, the Councillor for Education Ceutí, Josefa Hurtado, Miguel Olmos, coordinator of the traveling exhibition of the project and Maria Asunción Vicente Carmen Hidalgo, project coordinator.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Ceutí