Mayor Jose Soria and New Technologies Councilman Francisco in April, presented the 'Cehegín Memory Bank', which collects a series of videos with the lived experiences of older people in the town, told by themselves.
The Day Centre for Older People has been the site chosen for this project see the light, "for which we have developed the web where all these videos can be viewed," said April.
The Digital City Cehegín team has been commissioned to develop the site, created by a company ceheginera.
According to him, "we have encouraged older people to tell their experiences as young people, what they lived and what they heard from their parents and grandparents. Now we know the story of the last century Cehegín the hand of those who have lived in first person. "
In addition, the mayor has said that "Cehegín is a national pioneer of an initiative like this. In fact, the Memorandum Foundation has given us and will do a 'special' on their website to give publicity to the Memory Bank" .
At the moment, there are eleven seniors who have captured on video his legacy, "but I hope that we can reach 100 or 200 people," the mayor said Soria, who also added that "this is a good job, which will serve to young people know what life was easy or difficult, and know the difficulties that were passed. "
All these videos can be viewed in specific programs will be launched in weekly Internet television portal to be created 'Cehegin.tv' also Cehegín Digital City project, and the file will be created for this purpose.
April has appealed to all persons aged 70 years or anyone with a relative or an acquaintance of this age to get in touch with the team Cehegín Digital City and to make an appointment to make these recordings, pass on to posterity and history of the municipality.
This initiative is part Cehegín Digital City project, funded by the Ministry of Industry, through the Plan Avanza, the European Social Fund, the Autonomous Community and the City Council.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cehegín