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Baobab Festival 2009

Posted on | August 21, 2009 | No Comments

Sadly we missed the pre-festival warm up on the Casares beach recently but we were handed a flyer about the main Baobab Festival, which will be taking place 4-6 September 2009 at Estepona Playa del Cristo.

If you can speak Spanish, go check out their web page at www.myspace.com/baobabfestival and add them. I’m going to do my best to translate as much of it as I can here *lol* (gotta love Google translate tool).

Baobab Festival 2009

[singlepic id=105 w=320 h=240 float=left] We want to invite you once more, to participate in the 100 x 100 charity Baobab Festival 2009.

The intention this year is to use the funds raised at the Baobab Festival to open a shop of fresh juices in Guinea Conakry, to be able to subsidise and supply the needs of both students and teachers of the School BAOBAB.

For that, we are working hard to finalise the details of the organisation of the festival and are looking to recruit people who want to wholeheartedly join in to make this Baobab Festival a success.

Can you help?  If you can assist with Barras, Food, Crafts, Skills in Electricity, Sponsors us, etc, please contact us by e-mail : baobabfestival@yahoo.es

We look for people, men and women of the world who want to walk with us.

Along this road is going, slowly but surely, making sure that our way is the Earth more alive, giving the hand that is left behind. Gradually we will find. Each time we are more that we move from “Can not do anything” to “I’ll put my hand.”

You can change the things we do not like us if we start to change. It is possible a better world for everyone from today!, Now! sure that the steps that we are positive steps.

We can do it, and the more we are, the better

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What We Do

Our next step was to organize a festival was the most beneficial and well Baobab Festival in September 2006.

This project was achieved thanks to the willingness of government agencies such as the Marbella City Council, private companies who decided to put their grain of sand to work with the pulicidad, venue of the festival and the artists, dj’s, artisans and volunteers, providing all his energy and knowledge.

With the money raised at the festival and the boat was made possible volunteer help to carry out our first project: Marbella School in Guinea Conakry, with a capacity of about 70 students who could attend primary school both in English and French as a free.Thanks to these efforts the school Marbella opened its doors the day April 2, 2007, with:

- 40 children between 7 and 12 years
- 36 students between 12 and 30 years
- 2 Teachers
- A class room
- Desks and benches
- Books and school supplies

The school started functioning with great enthusiasm and effort from students and local people, so we had to keep moving forward!

In September of 2007 to meet again to prepare the second Baobab Fetival with the objective to collect funds for the School Marbella to continue working.

This time success was even greater, with the participation and support of many people (Thanks to all!) That enabled the school held its first anivoersario in April 2008.

With the money we raised:

1. Build two classrooms in the school, for children from 1st year and another for Year 2 of a total of 78 children

2. Hire more teachers. There are now 3 teachers, two for children and another that offers courses in English in the evening to about 30 youths. The number of youth attending class varies each week because the government recruited to serve in your army

3. Buy a van to school bus and taxi, which generate daily profits that help and self-management of the school.

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