Loulé City Council announced this Monday, January 17, that it will send a load of books to Guinea-Bissau, intended for schools and institutions in that country, in collaboration with the Guinea-Bissau Embassy in Lisbon.
In total, there are nine pallets with 190 boxes of books that will travel to Africa, the vast majority of books being of a didactic nature, «consisting of used school manuals that are no longer adopted by schools and that were donated to this cause by all the groupings in the municipality of Loulé'.
The municipality of Loulé also mentions that the initiative came from the former director of the Agrupamento de Escolas Padre Joaõ Coelho Cabanita, Professor Rodolfo Campos da Silva.
This commission «also includes publications from the municipality and books belonging to the documental fund of the Municipal Library of Loulé, which will also make it possible to take a little of the history and culture of this county to Guinea-Bissau».
The entire collection of books and transport to Lisbon is the responsibility of the municipality, while the embassy services will ensure the trip to Guinea-Bissau.
This initiative forms part of the twinning that the municipality of Loulé celebrated with its Guinean counterpart of Bissorã, signed on 20 March 2001, with the aim of «building ties and strengthening cooperation between the two cities in the social, cultural, educational field. , among others". At the time, “medicines were sent to meet the health needs of the local population”.
«This is yet another important moment in this twinning agreement born more than 2 decades ago. We are friends and brothers and we still have a lot to learn and to give to each other. And that is what we are doing locally, especially in this very important area that is education», says Vítor Aleixo, mayor of Loulé.
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