This week they started summer activities after the end of the school year, which means the return of the houses, colonies and camps which, for the first time since the start of the pandemic, can be enjoyed without any restrictions.
In the case of Pere Tarres Foundationthey are expected to participate 35,000 children in its summer activities, both from the foundation itself and from its socio-educational centers and federated esplais. A figure as high as that of the year 2019.
The starting gun was given by the Center d’Esplai Can Colapi in Sabadell, which last Thursday, June 23, organized the first summer camp for around thirty boys and girls, who will spend a few days at a campsite in El Port de la Selva (Alt Empordà). This Saturday the 25th, about 50 children from the Center d’Esplai Trencaclosques in Barcelona have also started their summer clones, although the bulk of the colonies and Catalonia start next week from Monday June 27.
More scholarships than ever
From the Fundació Pere Tarrés, they affirm that educational leisure activities will have “a function of emotional recoveryafter two years of pandemic that have left psychological consequences on the mental health of children and young people & rdquor ;.
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“In addition, to the crisis of the covid-19 a new one has been added, generated by the war in ukrainewhich has triggered the inflation and the prices of the shopping basket and has generated new difficulties for the most vulnerable families & rdquor ;, they add.
For this reason, the entity will reinforce its programs to grant scholarships to children in vulnerable situations, and calculates granting around 6,000 scholarships with the campaignCap infant sense colonies‘. In addition, this year the Foundation opens a new line of scholarships aimed specifically at children from refugee families of the Ukrainian war.