Students from 300 educational centers in the Region deliver a manifesto to municipal officials
Clearer impossible. After so much said and written about the Mar Menor, the region’s schoolchildren spoke with forcefulness and crystal clearness. After a global mobilization of students from 300 Murcian educational centers, simultaneously and jointly during the morning of this Wednesday, the school groups that were able to travel to the coast gave the municipal officials of the coastal municipalities a manifesto with a brief but clear message: « Political gentlemen, could you stop arguing about who is to blame and look for a solution now? ‘
The mayor of San Javier, José Miguel Luengo, received one of the minors’ communications by hand. “Since the 70s we have been making mistakes that have caused a large part of fish and crustaceans to die,” the schoolchildren recalled. The councilors took the children’s claims under their arms. «We want to give back to our sea everything that it gives us. We want to see life again in a unique place in the world, “they told the politicians.
The students read the manifesto to them at the San Javier sports center, the goal of the ‘Pasos por el Mar Menor’ day, promoted by the Healthy Education program Escuelas Activas and InnovaEdum, the group of teachers for innovation and educational research. “We thought that there was someone who had not yet spoken out on the problem of the Mar Menor, that is why we have given them a voice,” explained Juan Eugenio Alcaráz, president of Escuelas Activas.
Most of the centers have participated from their respective campuses, with games and races, but around 700 students from schools and institutes around the Mar Menor came to its shore to create a giant cordon and pass the manifesto from hand to hand.
They themselves verified that it is already impossible to physically skirt the 75 kilometers of contour of the lagoon due to the innumerable obstacles that human activity has put through, so in some sections “we have had to pass that symbolic Olympic torch virtually”, explains the teacher Alcaráz.
“We are sad. Children have the right to see fish swimming instead of plastic floating. Let’s revive the present to save the future ”, they have written in the manifesto. Throughout the morning, the writing has traveled from La Manga to San Pedro del Pinatar bordering the coastal towns.
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