With the current world crisis (CORONAVIRUS pandemic) the country was forced to take measures quickly to contain the spread of the virus and consequently prevent large numbers of deaths. In this way, the Government of Cape Verde initiated the mandatory lockdown which surprised many families. The lockdown started in the middle of March and lasted […]
Delta Cultura Education Center organized once again the Christmas Holiday Camp filled with lots of different activities and events. The camp started on December 23rd and it ended on January 3rd, 2020, taking place mostly at the Center itself. As in the previous years, the camp was highlighted by the Olympic tournament in which six mixed […]
From July 1st to 31st of this month, children and young people from the Delta Cultura Education Center, among other children and youth from Tarrafal City, participate in the 2019 holiday camp organized by Delta Cultura Cabo Verde (DCCV). The event usually takes place at its center located in Achada Tomás – Tarrafal de Santiago, […]
In celebration of Children’s Day, June 1st, Delta Cultura Education Center and Graciosa Municipal Care Center provided the children with a very special and different day, full of games, music and fun. Delta Cultura has been supporting the center’s children and young people to live together and embrace differences/diversity. As the philosopher Plato said, “Education […]
Delta Cultura Education Center and the Graciosa Municipal Care Center organized a workshop on “disability” on the 29th of this month, which was the result of a previous visit by Delta Cultura’s participants to the Graciosa Municipal Care Center. The workshop aimed to explain to children the meaning of the word “disabled” or better, what […]
The Education Center Delta Cultura held on May 13 a visit to the Graciosa Center of Municipal Care. The main goal of the visit was to teach the children the importance of Social Inclusion and the struggle/difficulty of living with limitations ( being a child or a teenager with specials needs). The children had the […]
After the first meeting in 2018, a new meeting was scheduled and between the Volunteers of Chão Bom High School and the Volunteers of Delta Cultura Cabo Verde. We began by presenting each of those present at the meeting, and then introducing the conversation that emerged in a normal and quite productive way. Remember that […]
Delta Cultura Cabo Verde has received students from Johns Hopkins University for the Service Learning & Luso-African Society program, , at Delta Cultura Educational Center in Tarrafal, Santiago – Cabo Verde. The program is happening from run till from January 6th to 25th This intersession program offers JHU students the opportunity to conduct service learning at Delta Cultura Education […]
On 21 October, Delta Cultura Education Center held a lecture, prepared and given by the volunteer Helena Pereira, about education. Under the topic “The Importance of Education – Much More Than Schooling”, the different ways of acquiring knowledge and education were discussed, which advantages can bring education as diverse as possible and in what ways […]
Delta Cultura Cabo Verde (DCCV), within its kindergarten project that is already in its third year of operation, joined the vaccination campaign of the Ministry of Health and Social Security. The National Measles and Rubella Vaccination Campaign, developed by the Ministry of Health and Social Security through the Expanded Vaccination Program, with the support of […]
During the afternoon of Tuesday, 19th, about 20 participants, including children and youth, volunteers from the center and more, participated in a zumba workshop at the Delta Cultura Education Center. But what is Zumba? Zumba is a fitness program inspired by several songs of the world that is being implemented in several countries of the […]
In collaboration with the local group Komikus Tarrafal, Delta Cultura Education Center organized the presentation of a play called “Presidenti Ka Sta”. The group is made up of young people from Tarrafal who see humor and art as tools of expression and dissemination of opinions as well as social goods and evils that affect our […]
Delta Cultura is currently supported by five (5) international volunteers who have been providing volunteer work at the Center for quite some time now. First of this group is Lena Saur, a German volunteer, who has already left. Lena was integrated in the kindergarten program and she also had a short experience on conducting German […]
What a great afternooon for our kids from the kinder garden, who had the opportunity to visit three different places in Tarrafal. As the topic of the month is about means of transport, our monitors brought the kids to the firefighters, the Post Office and the mechanic, each one having its own special features related […]
It was a great pleasure to receive the American rapper Corey De Pina, coordinating leadership development’s programs at ZUMIX, one of the major NGOs in the USA whose goal is to empower youth through music. Corey was grown up in the Boston’s neighbourhoods from a capeverdian immigrants’ family. This morning, through a strong but super […]
