SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Nov. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The IES Mencey Bencomo de Los Realejos has obtained in the call ‘Learning-Service Awards 2021’ of the Edebé Foundation and the Spanish Service-Learning Network the ‘Immigration and Coexistence Award’ with its project ‘Enrazando. We are all migrants’, a distinction that is endorsed by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training.
The project, among the 358 submitted to the national call, has been developed by students from the Center’s Learning and Performance Improvement Program (PMAR).
In the evaluation process of this national award, 77 experts from all over the state have participated, being highlighted by the jury “the educational quality and its social and community impact” of the project presented by the Realejero educational center.
The award, supported by the Torresco association, will be awarded within the framework of the XIV State Service-Learning Meeting 2021, to be held in Alcalá de Henares on December 17.
It is endowed with 1,500 euros to be used for solidarity actions, as indicated by the category of the award itself, in favor of immigration and coexistence, as well as an accrediting diploma.
In a complementary manner, Esade-Universitat Ramón Llull offers the free webinar ‘How to create a communication campaign to improve the impact of the project?’, Aimed at young people in the 4th year of ESO, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training.
According to the professor who has directed the project, Rosa Hernández León, “the service to the community of the students, after studying the different warlike conflicts of the XXI century and the unequal distribution of wealth in the world, motivated among other causes by exploitation of natural resources in these countries, has carried out an awareness campaign in the educational community and the collection of food to help migrants who have arrived in the Canary Islands with the expectation of better life opportunities and are housed in macro camps, one of them in Tenerife, that of Las Raíces “.
The reality of immigration to the Canary Islands with more than 560 people killed on the journey and more than 23,000 people arriving on the islands in boats during 2020, according to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), its location initially in hotel facilities and later in the old military camp of Las Raices it generated climates of racism and xenophobia for a time.
From this uncertain social context the objective of the project developed by the realejero students was born, who in one of the final activities consisting of an informative video of their work sentence with a phrase, “the problem is not immigration, it is education, we have learned that we are all migrants. “
Different companies and entities support the initiative of this national call for awards such as DKV Seguros, Fundación ‘la Caixa’, Plena Inclusión, CENEAM-Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, OEI-Organization of Ibero-American States, Educo, Fundación Princesa de Girona, Esemtia, Fundación Ana Bella, Mullor SA, Torresco, Esade-Universitat Ramon Llull and the City Council of Alcalá de Henares.
