Discount card

TEULADA MORAIRA has launched a new discount card for youngsters living in the town. The Bono Jove is aimed at people 16 to 30 years of age (both inclusive) and offers a range of discounts and benefits to be enjoyed locally.

For example, holders of the Bono Jove are entitled to free training courses, a 50 per cent discount on municipal sports facilities, and discounts off tickets to the Auditori Teulada Moraira to foster culture. They will also get free entrance to the Mu nicipal Swimming pool and even sexual health and hy giene prod ucts such as condoms, tampons, sanitary towels and menstrual cups.

According to the Youth councillor at Teulada Town Council, these services are an ini ­

Ditch the plastic

PLASTIC bottles of water are a massive source of pollution. That’s why Javea’s water company, Amjasa, has taken the time to educate secondary schoolchildren in the town on the importance of drinking tap water and giving them reusable water bottles to encourage them.

More than 100 secondary students got together to learn about sustainability policies from the municipal water company. Scheduled to coincide with International Water Day, everyone got together at the local desalination plant, Javea’s big drinking water factory, to talk about the impor­

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tiative to improve the social lives of young people in the municipality, enabling them to participate in activities and providing them with basic needs for their sexual health.

The mayor, Raúl Llobell, said that young people in this age band need support and that the town council wants to help them during the phase when they transition from childhood to adulthood, which is not an easy time.

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tance and positive impact of a simple change like choosing to drink tap water.

The mayor talked to them about the enormous privilege they enjoy of having drinkable tap water and environmental education. He urged them to become activists at home to solve a problem in their hands.

Amjasa showed a video to teach the young people about how drinking tap water lowers their carbon footprint and has other benefits and handed out reusable bottles to incentivise them to fill up at the tap and give up water in plastic bottles.