Because they derserve it.

We want to inaugurate the new centre for people with multiple disabilities on the upcoming 12th of July. We would like it to be a very special centre. We are extremely lucky to have the all the human help necessary but we would also like to provide it with the right kind and amount of equipment.

There is nothing like this centre in the area, and it is very important that it acts as a role model, not only because all eyes will be upon it, but because it is a way of vindicating the dignity of those disabled in a country where having a disability is still considered to be a divine chastisement.

It will be our little Abiguda in Sebeta. Abiguda is the best school for children in need and this will be the best centre for people with disabilities. 

Because they are worth it.

SailAid

On Saturday 6^th of July 2013, Nick Mason (15) and Sebastian Page Franklin (16) aim to set sail in their open dinghy, Rocky, and circumnavigate Mallorca to  raise money for the charity Mediterranea.

The trip of 160 nautical miles is expected to take us between 10 to 14 days. At night we will either attempt to sleep in the bottom of the boat, or on a beach.
Every morning we will get a weather forecast and, if we are unable to sail, we will spend the day cleaning local beaches and telling people about our trip in the hope of securing a few last minute sponsors.
Mediterranea runs programmes on Mallorca and in Africa. Here they are instrumental in providing books and milk for junior school children and have organised a number of food stations throughout the island during the time of Spain’s economic crisis.
Whilst on our voyage we will......CONT.

Mediterranea's tentacles

We were given a defibrillator from a large yacht in Palma, and we have passed it on to a sister organisation that also works in Africa called Resurge Africa and is specialized in re constructive surgery. We are please to inform our friends in the nautical world that the help get to where it has to and to where it is most needed. Thank you all for your solidarity and compassion.

Milk program

Our milk program for children in Mallorca is growing.

Last week we sent 600 litres of milk to the handout point in Palmanova and on Tuesday over 400 will be delivered to Santa Maria, aside from that the 505 children in Sa Pobla will be getting their 15 litres a month as recommended by the world health authorities. Needless to say, the roofless people we help in Palma, over 330, also will be getting their supplies as usual.
Thank you all for your support. We hope to continue growing and helping more and more people, and specially children, going through difficult times.

Educational program for Sa Pobla

The objective of the program is to reduce the academic failure in the children that are receiving help from Mediterranea NGO, so that they may finish their compulsory education  and so as to encourage them to carry on studying with the aim to get higher qualifications and training. This will help them to have a better future when they become adults. The crisis has shown us that people with qualifications are four times more likely to get a job than those without.
Our objective is to strengthen their maths, reading and writing skills in the two official languages. This will make the studying of other subjects easier for them.
We also intend to stimulate the habit of reading by creating a lending library with books for children and teenagers.
We are also trying to convince the parents about the importance of studying and completing the basic educational requirements.

We will give a total of one and a half hours tuition a week and the kids will get a snack after the lessons.

Special children, special needs.

As most of you know we now have 5 children with special needs in Abugida. The new children have been evaluated by our team of Specialists in Child Psychomotricity, and the first children to be accepted in our program have been reassessed. Various case specific apparatus have been made to help the children in their mobility and in the training of it. Some of our volunteers discovered a hidden carpenter and engineer inside of them and those things that they could not build were made by the local carpenter.
In this picture we observe Besurikade, quite a character, one of the newcomers, happy as punch with his new walker.

 Laura, our senior Occupational Therapist, sent us this picture of Habtamu. He is a little boy form la Sebeta that comes to the Messi room every day for stimulation therapy.     This picture is impressive, it shows how Habtamu has learnt to crawl, he had not been able to do so before in all of his five years of life.
Laura informed us that the teacher and monitor of the Messi, Kedist, works very well, and that Laura often writes to her giving her advice as to how to continue with the good work and developing her skills.
Kedist's professional abilities are evident by the results obtained in the stimulation and therapy carried out on little Habtamu.
The work carried out by the monitors in the Messi with the children that go to the Sebeta for help and are not children form the actual Sebeta Blind Children's school, is 100% volunteer work, which is admirable and heart-warming.