Encounters

-A community literacy project design by Margarida Botelho and sponsored

by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.

-Become a reader by experiencing the process of making your own book.

-Learn about yourself and the world around you,through your personal story.

Literacy objects to be used by literacy teachers

-training in EP1 Machava, 30 teachers involved.

-capEFA- Unesco, supported this activity with fine arts materials.

Learning by doing

Future ideas

- Printing different literacy objects and

books using content and images produced by

literacy teachers in training sessions.

capEFA support.

Mutauanha training center

- training the literacy trainers on how to use illustration,graphic design and layout software tools.

- Producing literacy books using local content.

- Training: post-production photoshop - pictures treatment.

- Making a digital data base with local pictures to be used in

future books produced by Mutauanha Center.

Participation in the literacy week with Mutauanha team

-working as a volunteer in a mission,

supporting the local school and

training future teachers, Muhala, Nampula.

OS DIREITOS DAS CRIANÇAS - Children rights through

Ilha Moçambique´s children EYES! - September 2009

Daina (UNESCO) and Margarida

1 week . 3 schools . 980 children (5-18 years old)

... discussions, storytelling, debates, drawings and story writing ...

- Children had an opportunity to share stories on how they live and

how they are treated at home and in schools.

Present and future ideas

-producing a book/manual bilingual (making off) of this activity,

to help teachers to develop hands on methodology of child participation.

Various child abuse

situations were identified

by children as common in

their communities:verbal

abuse (insulting), child

starvation (Ramadan period),

child labour, physical abuse

through beating children,

not sending children to

school, blackmailing and

threatening, abandoning

children and sexual abuse.

The exhibition, as a way of dignify children´s voice, involving

the community in the project, creating important and dynamic

intercultural and intergenerational social nets.

Ilha de Moçambique

Encounters - intergenerational dialogue trough stories...

the children are the ones who collect their grannies stories

Collecting traditional

stories and using radio

(children program) as a

way of communicate and

engage the community in

important issues:

education, health,

children rights ...

Festival Cultural da Ilha de Moçambique

-creation of the graphic design and image for the Festival.

-Participation in the organization of the Festival.

- designing a CAPULANA for

the festival ON´HIPITI

with ilha´s Heritage

Museu da Ilha de Moçambique

-Using cultural centers as a privileged stage for community

educational projects.

Museu da Ilha de Moçambique

- creation of a theater group to work the stories made by the

children and grannies.

Regular theater presentations as a way of keeping children and

families motivated on sharing intangible heritage ...

Ilha de Moçambique

Training a group of youngsters guides on hand made books:

-a picture hand made book dictionary (Portuguese/Macua)

(This project needs support to keep going in the future)

Refugee camp, Maratane, Nampula UNHCR

-5000 refugees from R.D.Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia ...settled

in a Mozambican village, an intercultural challenge!

Work directly with the camp motivators/facilitators

-specific training according the needs ... Sustainable process

... small actions to help the big action!

The story board methodology as a training to develop cognitive

skills ... And also constructive knowledge.

Art in Maratane

-high level of an artistic background among the refugees.

-High level of motivation and work capacity.

-Artistic work with children as a macrocosms that reflects the

daily life in the camp, a way of identifying problems and needs!

Refugee Camp - Maratane

Encounters - intercultural dialogue trough stories

-dramatic war stories - Encounters as a spontaneous process of

art therapy.

Child labour - a gender problem to be discuss in future programs

little girls with the responsibility of taking care of babies...

-making amultilingual

picturedictionary withthe most spoken

words in thecamp

A “cinema company” in the camp that wants to make films - fiction

through their real life stories ...

-training MATOKEO “journalists” to make

a sustainable hand made camp

newspaper/newsletter

-designing a CAPULANA

with symbols of each

community represented

in the camp.

During all this projects, working with different communities, I felt

that I “opened” different doors and in a way I raised a lot of

expectations for the future among the people who I worked with, this was

why I decided to transform my report in a picture presentation showed on

the 25th January in Unesco Office, so I could shared with project and

program officers my feedback about what I saw and experienced in the

field. Not being a UN staff, my position was really privileged because I

maintained an independence that generated flexibility. My position was a

mediator but also a implementer along with other partners in the

projects. I left many “seeds” that will die if the is no one to water

them. In my opinion based in what I saw many times there isn´t a clear

long term and sustainable plan for the field. One week and weekends

trainings is not enough. The effective implementers, they need to be

monitorised and accompanied. Also, one day assessments are not real,

there has to be an implication and involvement do have a clear idea of

what is going on.

Once again, I felt there is a huge gap between the projects designed in

the office and what really happens in the field. And is in between that

everything happens. What I can recommend or suggested based in what I

experienced is that there should be more sharing results and linked

projects, so a new project can potentialize the previous one and vice-

versa. Without this connection is just a succession of projects and not

a clear mission. Maybe this apparently easy practical-based process is

an Utopia, because all UN agencies have to maintain a complex theorical

burocracy and has to be the governmental partners, the ones that

implement. Once again, the role of a mediator is really urgent, to avoid

waste of funding, project and program officer´s energy, time and effort!

Obrigada a todos os que

ajudaram a tornar estes 7

meses um verdadeiro

Encounter!