Reparations and cultural activities as part of the Adult's Week
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The Ministry of Culture, through the Cultural Rights and Citizenship Section, organizes from November 15th to 19th several activities and workshops to celebrate the Week of the Old Age or of the Old Age with the aim of maintaining a spirit of co-existence and guiding them about healthy habits through recreational activities.
To start this day, we have been supported by the Regional Direction of San Martín and the Communal Board of Las Mañanitas, where the participants have enjoyed the workshops of stretching and physical activity as well as about basic steps of folklore, directed by the instructors Nicole Danset and Delfín Hernández, both of the network of Reparative Centres (REDCREA) of MiCultura.
In this first activity, ten ladies from the ages of 55 to 70 have been summoned to the Casa de la Segundo Juventud of the eastern sector of the town, where we have also established the Center for Colmenal Reading of the Community, who have been pleased with these kinds of workshops that help them improve their health and learn new things.
Lastenia González, coordinator of REDCREA of the National Cultural Rights and Citizenship Directorate of MiCultura emphasized that as an entity we join this initiative of celebration as well as international agencies suggest that institutions involve this population in all forms of cultural and recreational activities, encouraging their participation in art and more so that we have spaces such as the Reading Centres.
Our task is that they can enjoy events such as dance, music and reading, that benefit them, that have a full life as an active person with far more to offer, González added.
A number of other challenges have been noted for Wednesday, November 17, as: basic workshop at Salsa Latin Jazz and theater at the Colmenal Reading Center at Mateo Ituri's correction at San Miguelito.
While, by Thursday 18 November, the activities will be held at the Casa de la Emanda at Mayor Diaz, where the theme will be with folkloric dances and with emotions, personality and physical and mental health of the older adult.
The celebration of the Old Age Week takes place during the third week of November and aims to highlight the values, inputs and wisdom that older people have bequeathed to Panamanian society.
That date was established by Executive Decree 9 of 30 October 1978, which lays down the Week of the Old Age or of the Elderly.
