Up to 24 schoolchildren arrived this week in schools in Castile-La Mancha from the Valencian municipalities affected by DANA so that they can continue going to class, but also so that there is some “normality” in their lives within the tragedy.
The director of the “Hermenegildo Moreno” school in Villanueva de la Jara, in Cuenca, María Rosa Navalón, explained to Europa Press that it was the parents of two children aged four and five, brothers and originally from Paiporta, who contacted the educational center. . And there is another family who has also expressed interest in bringing their daughter, a 5th grader.
“The children are very happy, they are doing very well, they are happy, they are among their equals,” said the director, specifying that, although they are “very small”, “they are aware” of what is happening. went to Paiporta.
Meanwhile, Gloria García, the guardian of the five-year-old girl, comments that the adaptation went “very well”, especially because the two brothers knew the city having come there with their parents and “they also already had friends” with whom they are now meeting.
It must be taken into account that those who came “already had a family structure here in Castile-La Mancha”, where grandparents, uncles or cousins livetherefore this emergency measure “is not a welcome comparable to other situations, such as the crisis in Ukraine, because these children have roots, they have known children, they have cousins within of these localities” and their adaptation “is much simpler”. “, according to the Minister of Education, Culture and Sports, Amador Pastor.
The advisor highlights how this “temporary schooling” has been facilitated from the region, aware that currently for children arriving from the Valencian Community “it is necessary not only to prevail educational progress”, but also “a climate of comfort, an atmosphere positive atmosphere and above all isolate them from this Dantesque scenario which could include streets flooded with mud and piled-up cars“.
The idea is that they will stay in schools in Castile-La Mancha for 15 or 20 days until their families can take care of their “urgent problems, rebuild their lives in these localities”. “It is a temporary measure, it is a measure that we consider urgent, but above all it is a measure of solidarity,” concludes the advisor.
Of the 24 schoolchildren who arrived in Castile-La Mancha from the Valencian Community, half are in centers in the province of Albacete, six in Cuenca, three in Guadalajara, two in Ciudad Real and one in Toledo.
