A tour along the recent history of Benidorm for children of Primary and Secondary

Twenty young unemployed people participate in the "T'Avalem" program with the aim of achieving professional certification

The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, and the councilors of Employment, María Jesús Pinto, and of Historical Heritage and Youth and Childhood, Ana Pellicer, have accompanied this morning the 5th grade students of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores school in a guided tour in Boca del Calvari Museum. The initiative is framed within the program 'T'Avalem', put into operation by the City Council in collaboration with the Valencian Service of Training and Employment (SERVEF) dependent of the Generalitat and counts with a subsidy of the European Union through Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative.

In two groups, of about twenty students each, the children have been protagonists of a theatrical route where they have revealed aspects unknown of the history of the city, like its seafaring and trading past and have deepened in the usages and customs of the recent past, more specifically the first quarter of the twentieth century. Specialized monitors, trained within the T'Avalem program, characterized like characters of those times, have interacted with the students to offer them a panorama, hitherto hidden from them, of Benidorm's past.

From Boca del Calvari, students have passed to l'Hort de Colón, home of two of the characters: Maximiliano Llorca Fuster, and his wife, Catalina Zaragoza Llinares, who have shown them how they lived and how it was the home of a typical family of Benidorm before tourism and skyscrapers.

The T'Avalem program in Benidorm has two specific lines. It occupies 20 students under 30 years of age. 10 of these young people are trained to achieve professional certification of masonry; the rest, the dynamization of free time educational activities, children and youth. These are precisely those who interpret the theatrical visits. In addition, these animators will carry out other proposals around the holidays of 'Halloween' and Christmas; talks about myths and taboos, volunteering and scholarships; and workshops on family diversity.