Portal de Torre Pacheco
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The City of Torre-Pacheco adopted in plenary on "Way to School" project, which involves the implantation of insurance for children will walk to each school itineraries.
This project requires the participation of families and school.
Its objective is to generate a change in attitudes and motivations achieve behavioral change towards a more sustainable mobility, in our case, walking to school.
These school routes will also reduce the current high levels of childhood overweight and obesity, which are related to sedentary lifestyle and lack of exercise recommended minimum bearing smaller.
Thus, although the central axis is the way that children walking home from school, the daily journey is presented as a useful tool to discuss other issues which go beyond and are related to current lifestyles.
The journey from home to school can be quite an experience and an opportunity to explore space, make sense, contact with others and experience adventure.
Mobility is an issue that has been affected by the wave of adult overprotection.
The drastic cuts in school autonomy displacements associated with the rule of motorized mobility in towns and cities.
To get parents relax and children to walk daily and socialize with each other and with their environment, pedibuses (school groups walking together accompanied by one or more adults) will be created.
This form is to return the children's right to autonomy and education is promoted in civic values, responsibility, sustainable mobility and environmental favoring the street again become a safe, healthy and nurturing environment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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