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This coming Sunday, April 2, marks World Autism Awareness Day. For this reason, different activities will take place in Torrevieja organized by the Association of Parents of Students with Special Educational Needs (APANEE), with support, for the third consecutive year, from the Torrevieja City Council.

The future building will also have training classrooms, a university study room and multipurpose rooms, as well as the Office of the Department of Commerce, the Office of the Open Urban Shopping Center, the premises of the Local Development Agency (ADL) and its classrooms. specific for training and spaces to promote employment, in addition to creating multipurpose spaces for young people on the third floor (concert halls, rehearsals and/or meetings of youth associations)

Presented the business meeting "Gastronomy, tourism and agriculture of the Vega Baja: business opportunities and challenges", which is part of the "Focus SMEs and Entrepreneurship Vega Baja 22" program, and aims to promote the socioeconomic development of the Vega Baja of Safe through gastronomy and agriculture linked to tourist activity. The presentation of the meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, November 16, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., in the Torrevieja CdT, has been given by Domingo Paredes, Councilor for Development and Employment of the Torrevieja City Council; Joaquín Alcázar, Director of the European Center for Business and Innovation in Elche (CEEI); Rosa Fernández, manager of CONVEGA; and the Vice Mayor and Councilor for Tourism, Rosario Martínez. ATTACHED PROGRAM OF THE MEETING.

The AGAMED Board of Directors, held yesterday morning, reported on the application of the Social Fund executed as of December 31, 2021.

Representatives of 22 local NGOs have participated in a meeting convened by the Torrevieja City Council to coordinate the reception of humanitarian aid that is going to be sent to the Ukrainian people, who are suffering from the current armed conflict. The Councilor for NGOs and Volunteers, Concha Sala, together with the councilors of International Residents, Gitte Lund; of Citizen Participation, Inmaculada Montesinos and Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, has announced that the City Council is going to provide a place in which the arrival of all the material that is delivered for this purpose will be centralized and that it will be attended by volunteers from the different NGOs ´s of Torrevieja.

The Councilor for Education of the Torrevieja City Council, Ricardo Recuero, the president of Rotary Club Torrevieja, Luis Andreu; The representative of the Humanitarian Foundation of Spanish Rotarians, Ricardo Molina, and the deputy manager of AGAMED, Gemma Cruz, have presented this morning the second call for the Comedor Scholarships for children in the city who have not been able to have access to scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education of the Generalitat.

The Councilor for Education, Ricardo Recuero, has presented the aid of the "Child Bonus". It is about financial aid for students enrolled in the first cycle of nursery school.

The Mayor of Torrevieja, Eduardo Dolón, and the Councilor for Social Welfare, Tomás Ballester, have visited, together with the ASAFAN delegate in Torrevieja, Óscar Urtasun, this information point which offers all the information on the aid and benefits with the that have, in addition to managing and processing scholarships, FN degrees, etc. The hours of attention to the public are in August: Tuesday and Thursday in the morning, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from the month of September. Among the advantages for large families are discounts on the urban contribution, electricity and water bills, sports activities, all kinds of transport, museums, ..., as well as discounts on school fees and university fees, on the Social Security fee by home caregivers, etc. To contact ASAFAN Torrevieja you can call: 686 083 054 or 661 348 048. Also by email: torrevieja@asafan.org.

The Department of Education of the Torrevieja City Council, in collaboration with ROTARY CLUB, AGAMED, LA CAIXA FOUNDATION, ASIVEGA, CAJA RURAL CENTRAL and different individuals, launched a project in November 2020 to grant Dining Scholarships to boys and girls from the city that did not have access to them in the normalized process of the Ministry of Education.