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Costa Rica joins the celebration of the Ibero-American Cooperation Week with a brilliant concert offered by the youth of the National System School of Musical Education SINEM of Alajuela beneficiaries of said cooperation. The young musicians offered their presentation at the Golden Hall of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in which members of the Diplomatic Corps accredited in Costa Rica participated with a program that included pieces by classical authors as well as Latin Americans.The Ibero-American Cooperation Week is celebrated from October 28 to November 3 and all Latin American countries come together to commemorate the achievements and the beneficiaries organizing an activity related to such cooperation. Foreign Minister Manuel Ventura Robles congratulated the young musicians and recalled that the Iberorquest subscribed countries we also benefit from common projects such as the development of the Virtual Library the Atlas of Good Practices the printing of external signs. In the past it has also covered international tours of our orchestras to neighboring countries.Cultural initiatives especially framed in the field of public diplomacy strengthen relations between this great community of nations that we are the Ibero-American nations and that we belong to the SEGIB said the Minister. We are Latin America. We are Cooperation is the motto of this activity that takes place simultaneously in the 22 countries of Latin America and that is part of the initiatives developed by the Ibero-American General Secretariat SEGIB.This year Costa Rica highlighted the Iberorquestas program with a presentation from the SINEM School of Alajuela founded in 2012 and of which its members are some of the beneficiaries of said cooperation. In Costa Rica the Ibero-American Cooperation is executed in 20 projects and one of them is Iberorquestas which fosters musical development especially among children and youth of medium and small resources and in situations of social risk.This program is implemented through the National Music Education System SINEM which has schools in Acosta Aguas Zarcas Alajuela Frailes Grecia Gucimo Len XIII Liberia Limn Mata de Pltano Nicoya Oreamuno Parque La Freedom Pavas Platanar Pococ Puntarenas Quepos San Ramn San Vito Siquirres. This year the beneficiaries are approximately 150 children and young people between 9 and 18 years.Each year the Iberorquestas program receives around 32 thousand euros and the exchange of teachers from Spain El Salvador Mexico and Panama has been achieved who come to work in camps teaching techniques and knowledge to children and young people.
