The tender for the rehabilitation of the building where the kindergarten "O Castelinho" - Horta Children's Home on Faial Island was published today in the Official Gazette.
This contract work, included in the Regional Public Works Charter, has a completion period of about 15 months and represents a global investment of 2.25 million Euros. It is funded by the Regional Secretariat for Social Solidarity through the Regional Directorate for Social Solidarity.
The intervention is mainly aimed at the rehabilitationt of the existing infrastructures, adapting them to the installation of day care facilities, kindergarten and a free time occupation centre.
Launched under the strategy developed by the Regional Government of the Azores to build a network of social infrastructures and services in the area of Childhood, this project will enhance the safety of facilities and, therefore, improve the educational resources for the children living in the municipality of Horta.