Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico - After being sworn in on September 30, 2015, Puerto Vallarta Mayor Arturo Dávalos Peña gave a precise, and even promising, speech outlining what his government would do during his 3-year term in office - and it appears as if he's fulfilling at least one the promises he made: ensuring that the children receive a quality education and have better opportunities for development.

Late last month, Mayor Dávalos Peña announced that the City Council, through the Social Development Department, will provide Puerto Vallarta parents with all of the tools their children will need for the coming school year, including backpacks, supplies, uniforms, shoes and school insurance.

While just 32,000 children were enrolled in the Department of Social Development's School Shoes and Uniform Program, Dávalos Peña explained that backpacks and useful school supplies will be delivered to 52,000 children attending preschool, primary and secondary public schools.

"The 2015-2018 Municipal Council is ready to deliver supplies, backpacks, uniforms and shoes. For a week beginning on August 24 we will have a team working to present these materials to all preschool, primary and secondary public schools. It is important that no child is left behind, so we are giving social support... no child should be prevented from getting an education (due to not being properly outfitted)."

Social Development staff has already visited the 280 public schools in the municipality to distribute the registration forms to the children's teachers, so that their parents could filled out all of the data necessary to outfit the students for the 2016-2017 school year.

"We encourage parents not to buy backpacks and, if they signed their kids up for the School Shoes and Uniform Program, not to buy backpacks or school supplies either because the City Council will soon be delivering them to all public school children in the municipality," said the Mayor. He explained that 50% of the backpacks and school supplies were funded with local resources and 50% with state resources, while the city is covering 100% of the cost of the school uniforms, shoes and insurance.