This year, the LEYA Square will host the children's activity ‘Eu também SOU Formiga’, every Saturday and Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
The Lisbon Book Fair, which will take place from May 23 to June 10, will this year host the children's activity ‘Eu também SOU Formiga’, aimed at promoting Education for the Environment and strengthening ties between children from Mozambique and Portugal.
Every weekend at 11.30am, LEYA Square will host a dramatized reading of the story “A Formiga JUJU na Cidade das Papaias”, by Cristiana Pereira, by one of the “JUJU Ambassadors” in Portugal: André Gago (May 25), Fernanda Almeida (May 26), Fernanda Freitas (June 1) and Sofia Maul d'Contabandistas (June 2), Ana Colaço (June 8) and Ângelo Torres (June 9). Children and parents will discover the adventures of Ant JUJU with the storytellers. Whenever JUJU wakes up after washing her face, she delights in eating a papaya. One day, however, she finds her friend the papaya tree crying in dismay because the rain has stopped coming and the town has run out of papayas. JUJU sets off on an odyssey through the town and the forest to ask the sea what happened to the rain. After the story has been read, there will be an activity of painting drawings of JUJU the ant, by the Mozambican illustrator Walter Zand, in order to encourage creativity through art and bring Mozambican culture closer to Portuguese children, with the help of one of AIDGLOBAL's facilitators, which will work on concepts and values of Development Education based on the story of JUJU. Formiga JUJU is a civic movement promoting literacy and creative expression, founded in Mozambique in February 2012. Through the publication of children's stories and the organization of educational activities, the movement promotes the spread of values such as solidarity, diversity, creativity, unity, inclusion, participation, environmental protection and citizenship. In Portugal, the movement is represented by AIDGLOBAL, an organization which, since 2005, has been working for Education for Global Citizenship, promoting actions to raise awareness, inform and mobilize civil society, alerting them to the local and global causes of development problems and inequalities, namely through the “Educate to Cooperate” project.
