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Mindelo Will Soon Have a Social Centre |
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The SOS Social Centre in Mindelo is becoming a reality: the first stone was laid on 5 March 2007 by Dr Isaura Gomes, mayor of São Vicente Island. Backing up the family strengthening programme which supports 125 children in the island's main city Mindelo, the social centre will be an essential component in supporting families and caregivers to care for their children and prevent child abandonment. |
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'Kuskus' Cape Verdean style |
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Isabel's kitchen is full of big pots! Pots for 'catchupa' (a traditional stew), pots to cook a big whole fish with tomatoes, onions and lime juice...and pots to make the traditional 'kuskus', a sweet delicacy that her ten children will enjoy tonight. This SOS mother from SOS Children's Village Assomada definitely likes to treat her children. Today, she will also treat you, with her 'Kuskus' recipe! |
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34-year-old Linete is a mother of three. The family lives in Assomada, in a small house lent by another Cape Verdean family who lives out of the country, but Linette could hardly cope with providing the essential services for her twelve and five-year-old girls and eleven-year-old boy. However, since the family received support from the family strengthening programme of SOS Children's Villages Cape Verde, Linete is now her own employer and has regained confidence. |
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