A series of memorable photographs highlight activities of our main (MQA registered) Creative Crafty & Multimedia Training Centre.
NGO SPES Creative Blue / Green Open Days held from 5th – 10th October 2015, which were gracefully launched by H.E. the President of the Republic of MAuritius, Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim renowned Plants Scientist.
After delivering a stimulating Keynote Speech, our Guest of Honour presented, “SPES Certificates of Merit” to five Mothers & Grandmothers aged 25, 37, 50, 54 and 67, and who followed at Le Bouchon & Le Morne Village our NGO SPES Basic Multi-literacy Training Skills that integrate Creative Crafts Training. These ladies felt great pride also for having succeeded in breaking the learning record of 250 hours of our Quick-Learning Course! In turn a symbolic Presentation was made to Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim of the latest edition of the scientific Book on Natural Indigo and also a SPES Designer eco-friendly bag with indigo blues, seeing that Plastic bags will be banned from January 2016 in Mauritius.
A series of photos follow of the guided tour of our SPES diversified educational / vocational departments: first on view were displays of colourful Blue Natural Indigo Bio-Dyeing and Embroidery Creative Designer Textiles created, a week before, at the SPES in-house Workshop conducted by the UK visiting Textile / Designers Leslie & Robin Blythe-Lord experts on bio-dyeing techniques & on the Shashiko white embroidery on dark indigo woven fabric, and also on the newly learnt eco-Felting decorative products made with recycled cotton / wool fiber waste from Textile Factories.
Next on view the newly set-up NGO SPES Mini e-Museum with some of our SPES historical initial e-equipment, dating from the year 1981. In prominence: Our CA photographic e-equipment, our first Amstrad & our collection of the Apple Computers, also on display our first mobile folding Solar Panels, specially made in USA in 2001, our memorable first CAD Knitting Machine (now rusty) on which SPES trained, for free, several Textile Factories Workers. A series of Satellite radios, and a solar radio are also of great interest.
However, the limelight focus is on the present revolutionary innovative Solar Tablets specially enabled for transmissions via AfriStar Satellite in view of its Road Map educational e-programmes from pre-school to Tertiary, Research & Enterprises levels, which will remain on multimedia demo with also the eco-friendly use of green free solar energy.
To be noted that as AfriStar Satellite orbits over Mauritius & Africa, SPES, during an UNESCO e-project, created in the year 2004 an amazing edu e-programme in 7 simultaneous main languages highly suitable for all the African Region being in: Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Mandarin, Portuguese and Swahili which can be still be used nowadays, as it is on a healthy Papaya Fruit recipe.
“On hands on” display our SPES Robotic e-Section with several eco-friendly Robot Animals to facilitate enjoyable learning with also the Tokyo University Koba-Lab famous Robot SAYA android humanoid life-size basic science e-tutor, still on a free loan basis technical exchange of e-programmes for the past three years at NGO SPES. As the use of new technologies is very cost-effective, especially to deal with children & adults who have special needs as it provides extra educational & also digital skills support.
The photos below taken from 6th – 9th October depict the various interactive lively eco-friendly centered & productive free sessions held for Official & Private Participants, to encourage also flower and bio vegetable gardens, as well as growing local plants and trees from which SPES can extract natural fibers & dyes to create handcrafted functional, decor and fashion eco designer products with a Mauritian identity & Touristic value and in line with the UN millennium 2000-2015 EFA – Education For All Goals and also with the Worldwide urgent need to Reduce Climate Warming in order to safeguard Our Planet 2015-2030 with Actogether future Global Actions based on eco-environmentally -friendly objectives.
On the last Blue / Green OPEN DAY Saturday 10th, SPES organised a “Kids Cyber Café” with a special bio-identity theme on: “Busy Buzzing Honey Bees”. A relevant story was created on the spot with a group of ten 12 year old children, from Le Morne Village & Residence Kennedy poor areas. These children enjoyed also taking an active part in a Karaoké video projection of the local Lullaby “Rivière Tannié”, and they realised that unfortunately it is now dry mainly due to climate changes and also the carelessness of man-made pollution caused mostly from plastic bags…
This Kids Cyber Café was newly e-equipped with our NGO’s innovative e-fun learning interactive floor-table that has an imbedded enlarged 32″ tablet touch screen, around which the children knelt to play and learn collectivelly eco-friendly activities which were followed by a Healthy Luncheon Party.
In November & December the NGO SPES diversified Mastercrafts Team prepared our traditional Chrismas Expo / Sale of our weavings, potteries, indigo-dyed products and other eco-friendly products such as our new X-mas cards in the recycled paper Quilling system to raise funds for our free multi-literacy 250 hours course geared via Appropriate Knowledge e-Access:
To Transform Poverty into Prosperity