Brava: Furna kindergarten fully rehabilitated and with a “new look”

Jardim José Olavo was handed over to the community of Furna today, completely rehabilitated with works valued at around 1800 contos, financed by the Municipality of Brava in partnership with the Government.

Upon delivery, Mário Soares, councilor responsible for Education in Brava, speaking to the press, considered that there was a “great need” for the rehabilitation of that garden.

The infrastructure, built 20 years ago, had some very serious structural flaws, according to the person in charge, which jeopardized the safety of children, particularly in the roof, which was seeping water.

According to the same source, priority was given to this garden because of all the others on the island, it was the one that presented the greatest conservation difficulties.

The execution of the works had the support of the Government of Cape Verde through the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, with funding worth 1 million escudos. also with a value of 800 thousand escudos.

With this figure, Mário Soares showed that the reinforced concrete compartments had been completely replaced, the space electrified, canalization and installation of a new water reservoir, internal and external painting, gate installation, but also painting and furniture repairs to create conditions, security and comfort for children and employees.

He also stressed that there is a need for interventions in other gardens in the municipality and the council is already working on the rehabilitation of another garden precisely to guarantee the necessary conditions.

As for the building delivered today, he highlighted that “its conservation is extremely important”, justifying that it is not easy to rehabilitate a space in a short time, due to inadequate use, while these resources should be channeled to another educational infrastructure that also needs to be rebuilt. interventions.

Also, Vanusa Monteiro, pre-school coordinator, praised the initiative and commitment of the city council in the rehabilitation of the space, stressing that it was already necessary taking into account the state it was in.

Regarding the pedagogical part, it showed that the children, compared to the others in the other gardens, are far behind, but that they will work together with the entire educational community in order to minimize this situation.

He also explained that there was already a prior agreement with the kindergarten monitors that there would be no school interruption for them or for the children, in the sense of drawing up a plan, mainly for children who are going to enter the first year of Compulsory Basic Education for the next school year.

Monitor Cláudia Baptista considered that this work was an added value and will certainly bring many benefits to the educational community.

Now he asks mothers and guardians to send the children to the garden and to monitor them closely, taking into account that they will have to work more intensively, but also to help preserve the place.

For those in charge of education, the rehabilitation of this garden represents another positive step in the educational system, taking into account the state it was in, as Benilde Martins said, committing to work together with other mothers in order to preserve this space. and work on raising the awareness of children even at home to keep the space conserved for future generations.