The lack of shadows in the courtyard of the Algafequi school in Córdoba has led its educational community to protest this morning just before a new school day began. Umbrellas, parasols, students with caps to protect themselves from the sun have gathered at the door of the educational center to show their dissatisfaction with the delay in the start-up of the municipal plan Shadow in my school.
This is a program that has a budget of 850,000 euroswhose main objective is to mitigate the effects of the high temperatures that are reached starting in the month of May in the capital of Córdoba with the installation of awnings in the patios and the planting of trees in the city’s public educational centers in two phases .
The Córdoba City Council presented the Sombra project at my school in July of last year and, for the moment, it has only been carried out in the center Good views, where the first sail awning was placed last April. The pilot installation, which was awarded with a budget of 20,624.45 euros, corresponds to a sail-type awning on four supports, for an area of 9.00 meters x 9.00 meters, and an approximate flight of 11.60 meters x 11.60 meters.
In the first phase of development of the program, the City Council’s objective is to reach 35 schools of the city, including Vista Alegre, centers that will have awnings for the start of the school year.
However, the families of the Algafequi school have shown their rejection of these dates, since they do not comply with the calendar initially given by the Córdoba City Council. The president of the family association with the ability to create the educational center, Cristina Marabottohas indicated to The day that “the City Council explained the program to us in September and guaranteed us in other meetings – which we held until February – that the sail awnings were going to be put up between May and June and they have not started in any of them.”
“We are without awnings and without shades now that it is starting to get hot and more are needed“, he highlighted and recalled that the Algafequi school, located in the Fuensanta neighborhood of Córdoba and in which around 120 students are enrolled, has a patio with cement, which “makes the heat rise upwards.”
For this reason, it has been considered necessary remove cement from part of the patio -respecting the area where the soccer and basketball courts are located- and renaturalizing the patio with trees so that the shadows were natural. Thus, he has assured that “the environment would be more natural and sustainable” and, in addition, it would connect with the program Algafequi Naturewhich works on four axes: emotional education, environmental awareness, dietary health and promotion of physical activity.
“The situation is untenable; “We have a very large patio with a lot of cement, which makes the heat rise,” he insisted.
Subsequently, the families sent a press release to the media in which they recalled that “the boys and girls of Córdoba cannot pay for the lack of foresight, bureaucratic problems, or deadlines that they neither understand nor correspond to.”
In it, they have pointed out that “the shadow areas in schools are not an intervention created by an unexpected circumstance but rather It is a fact that repeats itself every yearand that the City Council can and must manage these actions with greater foresight so that children receive the treatment and consideration they deserve.”
This morning was the first action carried out by the group of families from the educational center that does not rule out carrying out more protests with the Children of the South Platform along the same lines.
