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The Cartagenera of the Year 2008, María José Puerto, satisfied with the levels achieved during the 42 years he has been working in special education Cartagena, has called on the government and society cartagenera move forward to achieve higher levels of awareness and care for people with disabilities.
Your request has been the climax of his speech at the award ceremony, which has received this evening at the hands of the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, at the Palace Hall, before about 200 people.
María José Puerto has called for public works and private increasingly adapt to people with mobility problems and has called for greater coordination of the ministries of Education, Health and Social Care, involved in special education.
Previously Cartagenera the Year 2008 was a review of the evolution of special education in Cartagena, through her professional vicissitudes and Primitive López center, which has been and is tied for 42 years.
In the plot of thanks have been the authorities, parents and teachers with encouragement and support have enabled Cartagena count today with a referral center in New Cartagena and their students have the opportunity to integrate into the social world work and sports.
The interventions of the opening ceremony the Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, who highlighted the work of Maria José Port and its deep commitment beyond mere compliance professional.
The secretary of the Centre for Initiatives and Tourism of Cartagena (CIT), organizers of the award, along with the City of Cartagena, Juan de Haro, was asked to read to the jury, composed of representatives of the CIT and the City, together with media communication, the chronicler of the city and the winner of last year.
For his part, President of CIT, Thomas Amato, made a brief biographical sketch of the honoree.
It will be recalled José María Candela was born in Port St. Crispin Street of Cartagena in 1948 and after joining the national corps of teachers, with only 17 years of age has been continuously devoted to special education, whose teaching is delivered without reservation.
His career has always been linked to the vicissitudes of Early Lopez, from its precarious beginnings with two classrooms in the shelter begging from fawns in 1966, and its constant changes of location, until the achievement of the modern facilities that since 1997 has New Cartagena, and the high level of social recognition achieved by this institution, considered a model, under the impetus of its veteran director and the people who believed in his project.
Today the center serves over 100 students, aged between 3 and 21 years of age with special educational needs related to mental disabilities, multiple disabilities or severe personality problems and autism.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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