‘Women Here and Now’ at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Centre in Maputo
8th Annual International Children’s Day Fair
4:11 CAT | 7 May 2019
8th Annual International Children’s Day Fair
Date and Time: Sunday, June 2 2019 from 11h00 am to 16h00
Address: Associação Livro Aberto, Jardim dos Professores (Acacia Cafe garden), Av. Patrice Lumumba, Maputo
About the event
Every year, Livro Aberto hosts this ever-popular family fair to celebrate International Children’s Day and to raise funds to support our children’s literacy programs in Maputo and local communities.
Launched in June 2012, the fair is now in its eighth year. It has become well known in Maputo as the annual gathering for national and international families alike, celebrating Maputo’s children from all walks of life. In 2018, the fair was attended by over 400 people from in and around the city, who came to enjoy the many attractions from creative and educational children’s activities such as poetry, arts and crafts, face painting and book-making, to story-telling, capoeira, dance, drumming, games and competitions. Parents were able to enjoy lunch and coffee at Café Acacia, visit our designer stalls selling books, designer jewelry, bags and more.
With the devastating natural catastrophe that has affected the central provinces of Mozambique, this year we are also focusing on educational support for children of Sofala province affected by Cyclone Idai. Therefore, the fair’s theme this year is Children Helping Children. This theme was specifically chosen to show children how they can help other children in need. The dynamic fair activities, will include stations for children to create handmade books and educational games, which we will placed into upcycled rice sacks, along with a donated book, capulana, school supplies and etc. Our aim is that, at minimum, 500 children in Sofala province will receive these Literacy Kits. Therefore, this year, our community fair will spread the message of helping others in need and it will continue to promote the joy of literacy for children in Maputo.
This event has been made possible each year by the amazing sponsors, donors and partners that support Livro Aberto’s vision of literacy for all children. We are raising funds this year to create the 500 Literacy Kit handmade sacks, purchase materials for children to produce the books and games for the Literacy Kits and to continue to support Livro Aberto’s literacy initiatives around Maputo.
About the Literacy Kits for displaced children in Sofala province, Mozambique
To be included in the Literacy Kit for each child (our goal is to provide a Kit for 500 children/families):
•a simple book bag (made from rice sacks and fabric)
•a purchased book or 2
•a home made book made from magazines and Ziplock bags (made by children at the Children’s Day Fair)
•a pack of manipulative letters A-Z with A-Z game board... and/or grab scrabble game for older children (made by children at the Children’s Day Fair)
•a game of Checkers (made by children at the Children’s Day Fair)
•handmade ziplock game holder/zipper game box (made by children at the Children’s Day Fair)
•paper/notebook
•pen, pencil, pencil sharpener and eraser
•handmade pencil boxes (made by children at the Children’s Day Fair)
•a capulana/fabric (1m x 1.5m) (serves a blanket, jacket or can be made into clothes that fit each child.)
•soap, toothbrush and toothpaste
•slops/chinelos
•Tshirt
•other donated items
Donations of new or good condition capulanas, Portuguese children's books, soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, pencils, pens, notebooks, and etc. are most welcome. Please drop them off at Livro Aberto or bring them with you to the fair!
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