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General The group Nigôlo is active two projects in the city of Morro do Chapéu, in the Chapada Diamantina in the interior of the state Bahia of Brasil. Both projects are realized through the efforts of Mestre Lua Santana: The first one, "Oca da Minhoca" is a social projects with children from the poorer parts of the city Morro do Chapéu. The second one, "Herbárium" aims at preserving the natural biodiversity of the region. The group Nigôlo in Munich supports the two projects and is grateful for any donation. Our account is: Nigolo e.V.
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The project "Minhoca" involves around 100 children of one of the poorer parts of the city Morro de Chapéu. The project addresses by means of Art-Education the unjust situation of social exclusion with emphasis on the integrative development of the personality. The various activities include School coaching, ceramics, music, theatre, dancing choreography, Capoeira and the famous “Banda de lata” hand made percussion group ... and frequent field trips and performances. The project "Minhoca" exists since 1986 and is supported by the Brasil-Initiative from Nürnberg, Germany since the very beginning and since 2008 also by the new founded Nigolo e.V. from Munich, Germany. Besides many private donators, the project is also sponsored around Germany from the Sambafestival in Coburg, "One-world shops" of Bayreuth and Freising and the Buchhandlung Gabriel in Rohrbach.. Last year, the "Oca da Minhoca" was officially acknowledged and chosen for support in the frame of the "Ponte da cultura" program in Brazil. This award is very special for the project has it states officially the contribution the “Oca da Minhoca” to the community and to the preservation of afro Brazilian culture. The prize sponsored plenty of valuable technical for art and IT that now allows the Oca to be also present in the internet. Nevertheless that does not cover the fix costs and personnel expenses for teachers and “monitores”. Monitories are a key point of the project: they are older Oca students, which transfer their knowledge to the younger and guarantee in this way on one hand continuity to the project and on the other a small outcome for adolescents allowing them to grown up in the spirit of the project. The most actual photos of the work in the project can be seen on: www.flickr.com/photos/ocadaminhoca and ocadaminhoca.blogspot.com You can help in the survival of this hope-giving project by financial contribution either to our German account (see above) or to the Brazilian account: If you send money directly to the Brazilian account please inform us asap by email, as money coming from foreign bancs needs to be requested by the Brazilian banc account holder. If you are interested to visit the project or to obtain more information about it please mail to projects@nigolo.net.
The project "Herbarium" has the objective to create a place for the protection of the enormous biodiversity of the region, especially of the forests. Until now were bought 40 hectares (1991), of which a large part is already reforested with dense forest, maintained and enlarged by continuous work. One of the next steps is to reach a legal status of protection for this area. | ||||||||
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Nigolo e.V. - info [at] nigolo.net - Konto 1000285435 • BLZ 70150000 (Sparkasse München) - impressum |
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