NIBS EXTRA

Garden of the senses

MARBELLA City Hall has completed the work that has transformed the park in Calle Valentunana into a ‘Garden of the Senses’ with more than 1,000 square metres of green space. Three large trees were felled there last October in front of the Marbelsun III building.

Back to life

THE former Convent of San Andres, declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, is coming back to life after a comprehensive refurbishment that has turned it into a multipurpose space for Malaga with a new municipal public library and various spaces for several different local associations.

Safe roads

TORREMOLINOS has created a large network of safe school paths. The council confirmed: “We have called this project ‘Safe School Roads’ because it involves a series of very important planning actions and works in a bid to improve the safety of the route that children take to school."

Educational tool

THE Alezeia Theatre Group from the Maravillas school in Benalmadena is leading an Erasmus programme focused on the use of drama as an educational tool. Through this project, the theatre group will be able to train a group of students from the Bavarian town of Bamberg.

Floating

MARBELLA City Council has requested a grant of €1,920,000 to improve the efficiency of the urban water cycle. A spokesman pointed out that this project “is part of a series of works which will make it possible to have a more segmented knowledge of the areas with the largest floating population.”

THE Benalmadena firefighter, Oscar Raggio Perez, has been part of a nine­person team from Firefighters Without Borders, who travelled to Turkey to collaborate in the rescue work and attend to the victims of the earthquake that shook the country.

The human team is made up of a paramedic, a dog guide and seven rescuers, who worked in Kahramanmaras, considered earthquake zone 0, until February 14.

The team carried out their work with a light USAR (Urban Search and Rescue) team, a rescue dog and technological equipment, com­

Betty Henderson