Last May 11th 2011 at 11.00h a.m. the delivery time for the participant tales in the Children’s Tales Mapendo Prize Second Edition started. The tales can be sent until next July 11th 2011 at 11.00h a.m.
On April 11, the Roger Torné Foundation presented the “¡Pintar el Aire!” show at the Artesà Tradicionàrius Centre (Barcelona). More than 300 people attended the event.
Rocío Román Collado. Workshop Director On the 5th and 6th November Workshops on Development Cooperation: Health, Childhood and Environmental Sustainability were held in Seville, organised by the Fundació Roger Torné in collaboration with University of Seville. These workshops provided us with the opportunity to critically analyse the future challenges of international cooperation. These challenges not [...]
This Inspira issue is based on contrast: while crisis is sentencing one hundred million people to hunger, it is more than 10 years ago that obesity in Western countries is considered by OMS as a global epidemic. We alert to the more than enough pollution that is breathed by 84% of Spanish population but we [...]
Since November 2007, the Fundación Roger Torné is financing a shelter in Butembo (Democratic Republic of Congo), through the Hermandad de Jesús Nazareno de Paradas (Sevilla). MAPENDO, which is the name of the house, was created with the purpose of sheltering 15 street children and providing them with primary care (health, education and food). The [...]
“¡Pintar el aire!”(Paint the Air!) is the first storybook from the Mapendo Collection of the Fundación Roger Torné, created with the objective of collecting funds for the Mapendo House project in Butembo (DR of the Congo) and guaranteeing its durability over time. Written and illustrated by Mabel Pièrola and with a prologue by Ana Mª [...]
In the April edition of the news bulletin Inspira, we devoted the Air Projects section to the most vulnerable children in the world as a result of armed conflict in an article titled “Child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo”. We paid particular attention to the horror endured by those boys and girls that [...]
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a country situated in the middle of Africa. To the north it forms a border with the Central African Republic and Sudan, to the south with Zambia and Angola, to the east with Ruanda, Uganda, Burundi and Tanzania and to the west with the Republic of the [...]
In his latest book, Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv highlights the harm being caused to children in developed countries though education that is increasingly distanced from nature. Meanwhile, the Mandioka Association is working to provide health care and education for street children from Butembo, in a country devastated by wars.
On 12 February the Foundation’s board held a one day group discussion with the team of people who are working to make the Foundation’s objectives a reality. We each know our own area of interest well, but may know little of nothing about what everyone else does. We also may not be aware of the [...]
