Jumilla has several youth correspondents from the two local colleges.
This figure began last year with a high school student Archbishop Lozano and this year will be four people: two of the center and two high school Infanta Elena.
This is Roberto Pérez González and Juan Daniel Moreno Olivares IES Arzobispo Lozano and Ana Zaragoza Matthew Thomas and Lorenzo from IES Infanta Elena Abarca.
The purpose and function of these is to serve as youth correspondents contact between the groups and youth institutions and Jumilla.
As stated by the councilman of Youth José Luis Monreal, "the council is committed to this figure of the young reporter, together with the Institute for Youth, which will serve as a link between young people and information institutes Informajoven Jumilla Center ".
To coordinate this work, "Every week we hold a meeting to exchange information and ideas that will later be transmitted to young people in these youth correspondents," said Monreal.
"Youth Correspondent" is a regional program launched by the Institute of Youth in the Region of Murcia and the Department of Youth Jumilla City Council to inform young people and serve as liaison with groups, associations and institutions.
This program involves various ministries, universities, municipalities, through the Department of Youth and the Centers Informajoven and different institutes, libraries and museums in the region.
Youth correspondents are young students, intercultural mediators or guides who are primarily responsible for informing young people of calls, resources and activities that might interest them.
Dealing with managing an information panel and attend a Youth Information Point.
Correspondent function is to inform, Informajoven coordinated with their municipality and the Institute for Youth, all matters that may be of interest to young people, leisure, youth accommodation, scholarships and grants, studies, work addresses interest, publications, etc.
The task of youth correspondent for bringing the information gathered in the institution where he performs his duties as correspondent and forward it to the Youth Institute and the local Informajoven, keep up to date and ordered the media and other media (information boards, newsletters, brochures, etc.) and to know the young man, with claims that the information in these brackets is for them, cooperate in achieving the objectives of the program in which it participates and to respect the internal rules of the institutions to develop activity, to transfer between the correspondent and Youth Institute of cases which by their special complexity can not attend in person, attend coordination meetings to be convened, as well as training courses organized by the Institute of Youth, maintain and meet in person the youth information point for at least two hours a week (on fixed days and hours) to respond to inquiries from young people and work directly with the head of the institution where he develops his work Junior Correspondent.
The purpose of the program is twofold: on one hand, report and disseminate the social, economic and cultural, in terms of youth, are available in the area of our region and, secondly, to gather concerns and preferences youth of the area in which it moves.
The program aims to decentralize the information provided to young people access to it, provide youth the opportunity to inform their peers and thereby to further the personal growth and civic participation, promoting values education for learning to learn think and develop critical thinking and facilitate youth access to services offered by the Institute for Youth, broadcast, institutes, libraries, museums and universities, information generated by the Institute of Youth and local Informajóvenes that collecting data of the activities organized by or for young people from different institutions that developed the program to reach as many youth as possible, enhance local Informajóvenes, promoting equality between urban and rural youth by extending that information to towns and villages that previously lacked it.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla