"Tuesday's visit”Of the boys and girls of Vicente Tena school to the Santa María de Betania de Xàbia Day Center, has become an essential meeting in the lives of the largest users of the Center.
The initiative launched by this school a few months ago has given the largest of the Day Center St. Mary of Bethany a prominent role in teaching an important role as they deserve. Children and adults live every Tuesday morning and share experiences and learning.
The visits are part of an intergenerational project within your reader called plan "Encounters readers among students in second grade and elderly people of our people". However, this initiative has become something else: a vital meetings coexistence with those who enrich themselves as much as others.
The Day Center, run by The Martha and Mary Congregation, Hosts right now to 35 elders who perform more and more activities that help its users to maintain the illusion as well as improving their cognitive ability.
The interaction between the participants in this initiative allows the elders to convey all that affection claiming their environment, their vast knowledge about life, stories, jokes, stories that delight the little ones, in an environment of mutual respect and admiration. Many of them share limitations. A lack of knowledge, even our own language (many children were born in other countries), others by aging. However, those limitations seem less to share. By interacting with children, memories filled with emotion Coiling and the elderly.
Children arrive at the center normally. Share readings, laughter and observe. The elderly, meanwhile, draw a big smile of gratitude and tenderness on their faces. Visits always end with a "until next Tuesday"Of older and eager to repeat week after week, experience the smallest.
