Africa-Press – Cape verde. The first National Meeting of Leaders of Catholic Scouting takes place between the 5th and 7th of May, in the city of Praia. The event will be marked by several conferences, workshops and projects of social action and community animation. The opening ceremony will be held at the National Library on the 5th of this month, at 9am.
Under the motto “To be more to serve better”, the first National Meeting of Catholic Scout Leaders – ENDICEC will bring together, in the city of Praia, around 100 leaders from all the islands where there are Catholic Scouts.
According to our interviewee, the National Head of the Cape Verdean Catholic Scouting Corps (CEC-CV), Zézinha Alfama, the first ENDICEC is “a strategy of continuing to invest in changing mentalities, strengthening bonds of union, fraternity and solidarity and in the tuning of the purposes that make us the “BODY” of Cape Verdean Catholic Scouting”.
According to the same source, the event intends to achieve four main objectives, namely to promote the institutional strengthening of the Corpo de Escutismo Católico Cabo-Verdiano (CEC-CV), to reinforce the intervention capacity of scout leaders, to enrich the first educational project of the CEC-CV and define goals that raise the quality of CEC-CV intervention.
Conferences, workshops, social action
During the meeting, there will also be conferences on important topics related to “Who we are, where we are going, where we want to go” with different panels focused on the theme of Catholic Scouting and its commitment to Cape Verdean society. verdiana.
There will be different workshops with a focus on enriching (gathering subsidies) the first Educational Project and, equally, projects of social action and animation in the communities.
“The CEC-CV is going well and all goals have been achieved”
These are the words of the National Head of the Cape Verdean Catholic Scout Corps (CEC-CV), Zézinha Alfama, who urges that “practically all the goals set for this mandate were achieved”.
Alfama exemplifies, as the highest exponents of this mandate, the creation of the information and data management system, the implementation “very soon” of the first Educational Project of the CEC-CV and states that Cape Verdean scouting has grown “both in quantity , or in quality” due to the strong commitment made to the training and qualification of managers.
Challenges
It reveals, however, that there are still several challenges to be overcome, such as making the Corpo de Escutismo Católico “feel as one and creating a sense of belonging”, the lack of teaching materials was also pointed out, but shows that they are on a good path.
“Our fight will be to continue to experiment with the Educational Project, adapt our general and electoral regulations and create disciplinary regulations that do not yet exist, so that the Scout movement continues to work and achieve better results”, stresses Zézinha Alfama .
Zézinha invites young people to be part of the CEC-CV
In conclusion, the National Chief of the Cape Verdean Catholic Scouting Corps invited all children, teenagers and young people to be part of the Scout groups, emphasizing that being part of the Scout family is “accepting a lifestyle that leads us to be useful, healthy and happy”.
In scouting we learn that our happiness depends on the happiness of others and the more we are at the service, the happier we feel and the more fulfilled too, it is a life with a mission, this is what we want to convey to have an ever better Cape Verde and youth , in all spheres, in the family, school, work, wherever it may be” emphasizes Zézinha Alfama.
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