Cooperation in zoos helps sell dolls maded
Cooperation in zoos helps sell dolls made by Congolese disabled.
Logrono, July 25 .- La Rioja NGO Cooperation has launched a new joint campaign by helping to sell at zoos in Spain and Portugal Congo dolls made by children and youth with physical or mental disability, told Reuters in Logrono director David Chimeno.
Chimeno has indicated that, for now, two zoos in Spain and two from Portugal have joined, aion kinah kaufen, this campaign for the sale of these dolls, known as "congolinas and representing women in this African country charged with their babies in arms or back and the cycle of their daily chores.
Fifty percent of the benefits to be gained in this campaign will reverse in the center "Heri Kwetu" where are made the "congolinas" by children and young people, buy kinah, without resources and with different physical or mental disability, because, inter alia, congenital malformations, consequences of polio, wounds of war and landmines.
The other fifty percent is earmarked for the environmental conservation project Cooperation develops in Kahuzi Biega National Park (Congo) and Rehabilitation Center Lwiro Primate.
The bell is called "Congolinas, tuende kucheza" which means "let's play" in Swahili, and, Star Trek Gold, Cooperation, for its development, working with the Iberian Association of Zoos and Aquariums of Spain and Portugal (AIZA).
The outlets of the "congolinas" is at zoos, aquariums and terrariums Spaniards and Portuguese who decide to join the project, which Chimeno presented last June in the Congress and General Assembly of Members AIZA, held in Lagos ( Portugal).
The director and founder of Cooperation has added that "congolinas" are made in the workshop of craftsmanship multifunctional center "Kwetu Heri," which means "blessed here in our house", based in Bukavu (Congo) and directed by the religious Spanish of the Society of Maria Teresa Saez.
The dolls, three different sizes, reproduced Congolese women charged with their babies in the arms or back, and with the tools of their daily tasks at home or in the field, such as the hoe, broom, carrying the firewood and water.
Chimeno has stated that "congolinas" are dressed with "the cheerful and colorful African fabrics and original look of the place and characteristic hair."
The center "Heri Kwetu" consists of a school where he taught primary grades for a boarding school for children, for a small medical clinic and sewing, carpentry, handicrafts and orthopedics.
Also offers treatment of epilepsy, physical rehabilitation for all injuries and provide prostheses for those children who need it.
Chimeno stressed the importance of this campaign is that it combines support for an educational project as the center "Kwetu Heri," and other environmental and conservation community, such as those performed Cooperation in the Congolese province of South Kivu to encourage human and economic development of the area through education, health and protection of biodiversity.
He rrred to Cooperate and AIZA opt for "unite conservation and development through education as a tool to foster the empowerment-people need the action to be strengthened developmentin their ability to control their own lives and communities, improving the protection of habitats. "
AIZA also pointed out that already "sponsors" a conservation project Cooperation in Congo and in 2007, awarded its conservation Rehabilitation Center Primate Lwiro, an area of seizures and rehabilitation of several species of primates led by the NGO Rioja.
This award allowed the veterinary clinic equipping the center with clinical and basic surgical equipment, which helped to provide better veterinary care to the resident animals, has indicated.
