The government delegate in Galicia, Pedro Blanco, today in Monfero highlighted the importance of public education and maintaining services in rural areas as “a guarantee of the future, equality of opportunities and life for our territory”. He did so during the institutional event for the 50th anniversary of the CPI Virxe da Cela, a center in which he also studied and defined what he called “a place that makes community, unites villages and keeps rural areas alive”.
During his speech, Pedro Blanco congratulated “all the people who were part of these 50 years” of the center: students, families, teachers, staff and educational community, “who made this shared history possible.”
The delegate recalled his arrival at school from a unitary school in which there were barely seven children and said that “this center changed my life because here I built much of what they are today”. Pedro Blanco stressed that at the CPI Virxe da Cela “grew up, learned, made friends and discovered that public education can open horizons and change the future of people,” highlighting the center’s role as a “meeting point, coexistence and hope” for Monfero for decades.
In this context, he defended that “where there is an open school there is life, there are opportunities and there is a future” and warned that defending schools such as Monfero “is to defend that boys and girls can grow in their land with equal opportunities”.
The delegate also remembered with affection the teachers “who left their mark,” especially mentioning the Gonzalo Tizón, “who not only taught, but accompanied and formed people.” Finally, he thanked “everyone who meant and continues to mean the Virgen da Cela for Monfero and for so many generations” and wished him “another 50 years of future, of public education, of community and of living rural”.