Help ensure the quality of Pre-School education on Príncipe Island

The Principezinhos Project, through the stimulation of social and emotional skills, in children between 3 and 6 years old, will complement the preschool curriculum on Príncipe Island

The Principezinhos Project , through the stimulation of social and emotional skills , of children between 3 and 6 years old, will complement the preschool curriculum on Príncipe Island, with the kindergarten teacher as a facilitator of discovery. With the main objective of empowering children with the skills necessary to achieve academic success . And we will do it with this motto: learn by doing, learn in contact with nature . We will offer activities such as building shelters with mud, creating works of art with natural elements, creating school gardens, and much more. And providing auxiliary technicians and educators from the public Pre-School network on Príncipe Island with the knowledge to do so.

What will we do if we manage to achieve the final objective of this campaign:

• Fund the participation of 10 children in the Principezinhos Project practical room during one school year (2023/2024).

Implementation plan (September 2021 to July 2025 - 4 full academic years):

• Participation of 25 children per school year in the Practical room of the Little Princes Project.
• Practical training in the classroom, for two assistant technicians per academic year;
• Formal training for auxiliary technicians and educators in the public pre-school network on Príncipe Island.
• Formal training for the coordinating team of Pre-School on Príncipe Island.
• At the end of the 4 years of the project, we will have trained all the assistants and kindergarten teachers on the island of Príncipe, thus ensuring that children's social and emotional skills will be better developed in all pre-school children on the island of Príncipe.

Project objectives: Combat school failure and increase opportunities for children on the island of Príncipe, and in the long term, to be agents of change/development in their community.

To make this dream come true, we need your help!

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About the author

In 2010, driven by the desire to create value, a group of friends flew to Príncipe, in São Tomé and Príncipe. There they discovered a different reality, where happiness and smiles prevailed, but where there were no dreams of a different future, or of an alternative to the existing reality.

Books to read, teachers to teach, libraries to study, training in the most diverse areas. In Príncipe, there was and still is a lot to do for education. Sonha, Faz e Happen wants to actively participate in this urgent change.

Educating is taking care of the future! This is how, in April 2012, Sonha, Faz e Ação was born, a volunteering and social entrepreneurship association, whose "dream" is to create conditions of equal opportunities for young people from the PALOP to have academic success and become agents of change in their communities.

We have been present on the ground for 7 years with high-impact activities such as the Xináa Fogáá Holiday Camp, which covers more than 100 children; the Entrepreneurship Competition that supports and finances local businesses; and also the rehabilitation of school infrastructures. Now we have taken our dream further by implementing the first long-term project of Sonha, Faz e Happen, with Projeto Principezinhos.

We are talking about education. Education is synonymous with freedom. Education is “the most powerful weapon that can be used to change the world”, Nelson Mandela.

Budget and due dates

The funds raised will be used to cover the costs of volunteers on the ground who will be in the room with the children and provide training for adults, both volunteers have higher education in Early Childhood Education.

• Expenses for volunteers (academic year 2023/2024): accommodation, food, travel and health insurance: €7,800

Implementation plan (September 2021 to July 2025 - 4 full academic years):

• Participation of 25 children per school year in the Practical room of the Little Princes Project.
• Practical training in the classroom, for two assistant technicians per academic year;
• Formal training for auxiliary technicians and educators in the public pre-school network on Príncipe Island.
• Formal training for the coordinating team of Ilha do Prínciep Pre-School.
• At the end of the 4 years of the project, we will have trained all the assistants and kindergarten teachers on the island of Príncipe, thus ensuring that children's social and emotional skills will be better developed in all pre-school children on the island of Príncipe.

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Documents

• relatorio_impacto_ano1.pdf

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• relatorio_projeto_principezinhos_-_ano_2.pdf

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• plano_4anos_projeto_principezinhos.pdf

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