Solidarity schools: EDP Foundation launches challenge of citizenship to schools
They are open registration for the 8th edition of the Solidarity Schools Foundation EDP program. In the school year 2016/17, a school of Beja district was qualified.
Solidarity schools is one of the EDP Foundation program that promotes active citizenship and solidarity, encouraging teachers and students to be agents of positive change and contribute to improving the communities in which they live.
this initiative, which now comes to its 8th edition, It has the official seal of the State Secretariat of Culture and Education of the General Directorate and aims to involve all public and private schools from the 2nd Cycle Secondary School.
The projects presented by schools throughout the country should be based on the Sustainable Development Goals, of the United Nations, in areas such as Poverty and Hunger, Unemployment / Economic Sustainability, Education / literacy, Health, Senior population, Living with a Difference, Environmental Sustainability and Global Partnership for Human Development.
To Margarida Pinto Correia, Director of Social Innovation EDP Foundation, "Solidarity School be a means to provide students with a comprehensive education, that has, the exercise of citizenship, personal and social development tool. It also means creating strong links between the school population, families and the wider community. "
In the latest edition of the Solidarity Schools Foundation EDP, the school year 2016/2017, participated 433 schools, public and private. projects were developed which involved the participation of over 40 thousand students and teachers, and represented an investment of about three million hours in solidarity actions that have helped to improve the living conditions of more than 245 thousand.
"Learning citizenship is imperative to build the set of values of the new citizens. And schools are critical in the development of education for citizenship ", He stressed the Minister of Education, Tiago Rodrigues Brandão, Schools at the national meeting of Solidarity, on 2 June, in Lisbon.
Created 2010, this program annually mobilizes tens of thousands of students and teachers from schools across the country and has the support of numerous personalities like Catarina Furtado, Pedro Lima, Cláudia Semedo, Fernanda Freitas, Eunice Munõz and André Sardet, among others.
