Value education for street children

Living Values Education (LVE) has come to Mozambique through Ms. Frazer, who has been involved with LVE since its beginning. As she has travelled from England to Botswana to Mozambique, LVE has travelled with her. At Ms. Frazer’s invitation, Rodrigo Brito, the LVE Coordinator for the street children programme in Brazil, visited Mozambique from 25th to 27th January, as she then reported to us:

“A half-day introduction to LVEP was organized in Maputo. We had representatives from UNICEF, the Dutch Embassy, organizations that work with street children, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Catholic Church, private colleges and the Scouts Association. Twenty-five people participated. The Programme began with an inspiring introduction by Rodrigo who spoke about the importance of applying values in our daily life. This was followed by a brief overview of the Programme and experiences from Rodrigo, Samantha and Mario.

“The values awareness session was very well received as participants realized that it is important that we model and live the values. Rodrigo gave an overview of LVE’s programme for street children and led participants through an activity that is used in this programme called a circle of peace. Participants sang a beautiful song entitled Ser Feliz (Be Happy) which generated a lot of enthusiasm and happiness. An introduction to LVE’s programme for street children was also given to Wana Sanana, an organization that works to meet children’s needs in Mozambique. This will be followed up with a training for people working with street children later this year.

“Rodrigo was also interviewed for 90 minutes on a popular television talk show called ‘Dialogos’ and spoke in detail of LVE’s Programme for street children, displaying the Living Values Activities for Street Children books and giving a detailed account of each book and its purpose.

“The Ministry of Youth and Sports has offered to help us form an Association for Living Values Education.”

Many thanks to Gilson de Souza dos Santos, a 15-year-old involved with LVEP’s Living Values Activities for Street Children Programme, who sent us this poem.

Mysteries of Peace

Black PEACE of the Negroes,
White PEACE of the Whites,
Green PEACE of the jungles,
Blue PEACE of the oceans,
Brown PEACE of the lands,
Yellow PEACE of the wealthy,
PEACE is all we have to have in our hearts.
It´s nonsense to say that
the colour of PEACE is the white colour.
Hold PEACE inside you and the world will be grateful.