The celebration of Children’s Day is an important date to highlight the rights of children. Throughout yesterday we had a beautiful celebration with pintucaritas, trampolines, colouring activities, dancing, contests, games to promote the care of the environment, prizes and refreshments – all with the support of the Municipality of Soledad and the EDUMAS (Establishment of Urban Development and Environment of Soledad) enabling 200 children from the neighbourhood Nuevo Horizonte to enjoy the festivities.

The Sweet Festival is an Afro-Colombian tradition whose origins lie in the 16th century in one of the oldest Cartagenero towns, San Bacilio de Palenque. Since Easter, families, friends and neighbours gathered to prepare and eat sweets. For this reason, today we had our first sweet festival! Made with the love of our children’s mothers for all the children in the dining room, who enjoyed these delicious and sweet experiences.

The birthday celebration strengthens social skills and self-esteem in children. Therefore, every two months we all get together to share a beautiful birthday cake and best wishes.

According to the World Health Organisation, health is the complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing, so we took advantage of the date to examine the habits that we should acquire. Throughout the week, we put emphasis on play-learn activities emphasising the importance of maintaining a healthy diet with an area that we called nutritional space where the children were questioned about their favourite fruit or vegetable and the benefits they bring to our health. Likewise, we used the space for some physical exercise with a Rumbatherapy session.