Basic Education Their Future At Stake
The front cover picture was certainly not taken during Covid times. We do not know its exact location, but it could be from any particular school in rural South Africa. What indeed the image of these children reflects is their eagerness for learning and doing it together. Their minds are surely full of dreams; their desires for a bright future cannot be frustrated. The task of offering them an inclusive and integral quality education can look gigantic, but each one’s contribution can make the miracle happen.
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Dominican Missionaries Sow Hope and Dignity with a Musical Project
BY EG, Agenzia Fides | Asunción, Paraguay
IN Bañado de Tacumbú, a poor neighbourhood on the outskirts of Asunción, the hope for a better future passes through music. The population of this neighbourhood is mostly young, with a low level of education. The houses are built with very precarious materials and there are poor sanitation conditions. Bañado de Tacumbú is in fact located on the banks of the Paraguay River and due to the lack of infrastructure, it has suffered severe floods causing havoc among its population.
In this context, in 2012, Fr Germán Pravia started a music school. At first, there were eleven students, two guitars for all, and a few wood instruments. They assembled, if necessary for rehearsals, in their own homes. Over time, many other young people joined so that a real Bañado de Tacumbú Youth Orchestra was formed.
The Orchestra now has about fifty motivated and passionate young people, between the ages of 13 and 25, and is made up of guitars, violins, cellos, transverse flutes, saxophones, clarinets, horns and percussion. They find in it an opportunity for personal growth and social redemption and the possibility, thanks to music, to imagine a different and possible future for their lives.
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February 1 – Blessed Benedict Daswa 2 – World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life 4 – International Day of Human Fraternity 6 – International Day of Zero Tolerance of Female Genital Mutilation 8 – International Day of Prayer and Awareness against Human Trafficking 11 – International Day of Women and Girls in Science 11 – World Day of the Sick 13 – World Radio Day 20 – World Day of Social Justice 21 – International Mother Language Day March 1 – Zero Discrimination Day 2 – Ash Wednesday 3 – World Wildlife Day 8 – International Women’s Day 15 – St Daniel Comboni’s Birthday 20 – International Day of Happiness 21 – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 21 – SA Human Rights Day 22 – World Water Day 24 – World Tuberculosis Day 24 – International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims 25 – International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade |
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