From tomorrow, Tuesday 22 June, until 30 September, they will be taking part in the project ".We are Culture"a total of 500 people70 adults and 430 children. This is an initiative developed by the CV-MARQ Foundation within the field of accessibility and social responsibility, in collaboration with the Department of Social Action and Family of the Alicante City Council.
The aim of this programme is to facilitate, through various actions, access to culture for groups of people at risk of exclusion or at risk of exclusion who are cared for by the municipal Social Services, promoting knowledge of the history and cultural heritage of the city.
The Vice-President and Member of Parliament for Culture, Julia ParraWe wanted to join this initiative with an extensive programme that shows the contents of the Archaeological Museum through dramatised and animated visits, as well as educational workshops designed according to a methodology that aims to contribute to personal development and growth as well as social integration," he explained.
"Somos Cultura" is aimed at five Social Action groups of the Municipal Centre for the Homeless CAI; the Social Work "Santa Luisa de Marillac-Hijas de la Caridad de San Vicente de Paúl"; the Service of Accompaniment in Itineraries of Labour Insertion SAIL; the Gypsy Secretariat Foundation and the Municipal Socio-educational Centres Gastón Castelló, Plaza del Carmen, Playas, San Blas, La Florida, Ciudad de Asís, La Casita, Virgen del Carmen, Isla de Cuba and Nou Alacant.
The CV-MARQ Foundation and the Department of Social Action and Family of the Alicante City Council are firmly committed to the access to culture as a fundamental pillar of social integrationwhich contributes to the empowerment and rootedness of people by bringing them closer to culture and history.