Fundación Meniños celebrates 30 years of protecting Galician children

The Director General of Family, Childhood and Demographic Dynamics, Jacobo Rey, highlighted the entity's work and the challenge of involving society.

Fundación Meniños celebra 30 anos de protección á infancia galega

do grao de discapacidade · 2026-10-14

The Fundación Meniños celebrated its thirty years of work in protecting Galician children and adolescents, a task that the Xunta highlights.

The Director General of Family, Childhood and Demographic Dynamics, Jacobo Rey, attended this morning the event "30 years, 30 stories", organized by the Fundación Meniños to commemorate its three decades of existence. During the event, he highlighted the entity's importance in protecting Galician children and adolescents.
Rey described the Fundación Meniños as a fundamental ally of the regional protection system. He emphasized that the entity manages programs of great sensitivity and complexity, ranging from perinatal care to psychological, social, and educational support for minors.
The Director General also pointed out that the main current challenge is to raise societal awareness about the existence of problems and complexities in childhood. Furthermore, he stressed the need for society as a whole to actively engage in addressing these challenges.
Based on information from the official source: Consellería de Política Social (14/10/2026)