First Acquisitions of our Project

We are happy to let everybody know that we ordered all of the items of our project, and the first of them is already with us: the mini mattresses covers fabric. We will be publishing pictures as items arrive. Most of them had to be ordered from out of Brasília because of the better prices we got, mostly from São Paulo.

Eumetsat Better World Club Results

As posted previously, we used the funds raised at the Eumetsat book fair to pay for the graduation suits. We also used the money to paint the kitchen and dining room walls. They were recently refurbished but there was no money left for painting. We also bought non-slip mats for the kitchen floor. Many thanks to our Better World Cup friends, this year will certainly be better because of your kind help!

Graduation day

Graduation day was perfect thanks to the Eumetsat Better World Cup donation, that made it possible to buy the kids suits. The rest of the money is being used to do some painting on walls next to the kitchen.

As for the project money, it was only released by the bank last monday, and the project team went shopping. Hope to have good news next week!

Book fair to help fund raising

Last week our friend Carolina Loddo organised the annual book fair at Eumetsat to raise funds for our 2013 project. The event raised over EUR 1,200! Thank you, Eumetsat folks! We will use this money to improve the school's library. HESpace has sent us the funds, and so did Carolina, and we are now waiting for the long long bureaucratic banking procedures to start the execution phase of the project.

Project launch 3, 2, 1, 0!

Last week we received project approval from HESpace. We already have a bank account, with just a little bureaucracy for signing papers will make it ready to be used by next week. And the school director already ordered the new playground toys: the mini house and the rocket. We can say that our mission has launched and we hope it will successfully reach its goal!

This is the first post of our new blog. If you want to catch up with our history, just check the original blog, projecthespacebrazil2012 . This year we intend to include two new "toys"in the playground, one of which is a big rocket, represented on the image of the blog's wallpaper. We are planning to send the adaptations to the original project by 10/23. The project had to go through changes because our school received support from a Brazilian bank for funds for equipment that were part of our original plan. Since the playground still needs equipment, we are planning to provide this by HESpace.

Remodelled playground: always improving

Last weekend we paid another visit to our dear school. We held a little campaign with our friends from Banco Central do Brasil, to raise funds to fix the playground, which was exposing the kids to some risk of accidents.

 

We also share some improvements that had to be done, and the recent campaign helped us pay this other work: the front wall was unstable and had to be put down and rebuilt and the electric wiring that provides energy to the school was changed.

 

 

Our plans forr this year include the provision of some equipment so that the school can offer better services. These include the couchs used by the younger kids to take their naps, and improve the area of the library with adequate books and audiovisual equipment.