Over ten thousand school packages will be distributed in 56 schools throughout the municipality
During the delivery, the municipal president was invited to «go all out… in order to avoid or prevent backwardness, dropouts and school desertion».
Jazmín Stengel / D. Arturo Ortega.- The second stage of the Recrea Educating for Life program began with the delivery of the first 173 packages of school supplies, shoes and uniforms to the students of the José Vasconcelos Foranea Secondary School Number 1 in Chapala. The approximately six million pesos, program will delivers 10,780 backpacks, school supplies, uniforms and shoes to preschool, elementary and high school students in Chapala.
According to the Municipal Education Director, Diego Beltrán González, there are approximately 10,600 students in basic education throughout the municipality of Chapala in 66 schools (33 preschools, 25 elementary and 8 high schools). Not all of the schools are served by the Recrea program, but through the resources of the Municipality all schools are given the same support to start the year consisting of shoes, uniforms for the corresponding school, backpacks with the school supplies corresponding to each child’s grade, and a disinfection kit
Director of Liaison José Niños Guzmán delivered a total of 10,578 packages to Chapala, of which he said that «for the moment are in the warehouses of Social Development, where the uniforms and shoes will be sorted correctly and then will be delivered school by school in the coming weeks.»
«The design and execution of this program not only supports the children and young people of the 125 municipalities in Jalisco, but also supports the family economy… as the State Government through the Secretary of Social Assistance System invested more than one billion pesos for the municipalities, supporting more than one hundred thousand students,» explained Guzman , speaking for Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramirez.
Mayor Alejandro de Jesús Aguirre Curiel stated that, «education is and will always be one of the fundamental pillars , if not the most important pillar, for the development of peoples and societies. Economic, industrial or scientific growth cannot be achieved without schools,» he said prior to the delivery of the school packages.
On Friday, November 26, representatives of the Ministry of Social Assistance of the Government of the State of Jalisco, the City Council, parents and students of the José Vasconcelos Foranea School Number 1, gathered inside the school facilities for the symbolic beginning of this stage.
In order to pick up the school package, children have to be previously registered, they must present their CURP and the official identification (INE) of the parent or guardian of the student, as well as sign for receipt on the day of delivery.
Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan
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