The Plenary unanimously ratified the first Local Children’s Plan (PLIA) of Granadilla de Abona and ratified the municipality’s request to Unicef Spain for the procedures to obtain the status of candidate for Child Friendly City. The main function of the creation of this PLIA is to provide service to citizens through the management of quality resources and programs, close to the population; so that girls, boys and adolescents have the necessary resources to grow healthily in their different physical, emotional and social aspects.
Members of the child and adolescent participation body Acción Juvenil, established in February of this year, were present at the session. This project has about twenty young people and was born as a space for meeting, participatory, social creativity, with an open and plural character and generator of shared processes between young people.
The Councilor for Community Welfare, Carolina Bethencourt Gonzalez, and promoter of this initiative, claims that the municipal government of Granadilla de Abona “is committed to the five objectives that include the rights contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.” Along these lines, the councilor is sure that “they will apply at the local level a management model from a focus on these rights under a governance system that favors internal and external coordination,” and highlights that “we are getting closer to changing the way to see the boys and girls. They are not only the future, they are also the present.
The mayor, Jennifer Miranda, highlights that the approval of the Local Children’s Plan marks “a historic day” for the children and adolescents of the municipality. “This will create a stable space for participation and this administration is committed to promoting it.” The councilor understands that it is about having the roadmap to follow with the objective that policies regarding childhood and adolescence “are designed and evaluated with childhood and not only for childhood. This PLIA is based on a participatory and active model, framed in the Child Friendly Cities initiative.
