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THANK YOU everyone who helped to make our Christmas appeal so successful and special for the children. 🙏💝 708 children were given a Christmas gift bag containing a toy/gift, an item of clothing and some toiletries. Approximately 500 bags were given out on the island São Nicolau and approximately 200 on Santo Antão. Any further gifts are donated in the …

For many of you, Cape Verde is in your hearts, in just the same way as it’s in our hearts!Gus has been helping those in need for over 20 years on the islands of Sal, São Vicente, São Nicolau and Santo Antão. He is well respected for the charity work he has been doing through Paradise Adventures with Gus and subsequently Cape Verde in …

WOW!!!! Our supporters are the best!!! 💗💗💗 Your generosity and kindness has made our school appeal a HUGE success and made sooo many kids and teachers happy. 224 children have been given school bags full of stationery supplies!! Supplies were also given to 6 kindergartens and 5 school academies have received footballs, kits, socks and 18 pairs of boots!! 👏👏 …

Our school appeal is now well under way, we are desperately in need of the following items: If you would like to bring school supplies or other donations, we would are always happy to arrange free charity luggage. (Tui UK flights only)The list of required items can be found in the donations section of our website. Alternatively, you can donate …

We would like to say a huge thank you to Derrick Williams from @KitAid Charity for donating a huge amount of football kit. We will update with more photos as the kits are distributed. We are so grateful for their support and hopefully can work together more in the future.

One of our main objectives of Cape Verde in Need is: To relieve the poverty of young people by enabling them to participate in healthy recreational activities that they could not otherwise afford. This will be by providing sports coaching by a qualified football coach, the provision of donated football kit and travelling expenses for the young people. Estoril is …

475 CHRISTMAS PRESENT BAGS GIVEN OUT!!!!!! And that means 475 smiling children’s faces This amount has totally exceeded our expectations. We have been astounded by the generosity of people! Areas presents distributed in – 240 presents in Alto Casa de Agua, Chan de Vital, Ribeira de Crakuinha and Monte Monte Sossego SÃO VICENTE. 155 in Sâo Paolo and Casa Para …

Whilst we have been busy distributing Christmas gift bags on the islands of Sal and Sao Vicente, Gus and Nilza came across this lovely little girl. Keylin, was in desperate need of a wheelchair, they are expensive and very difficult to come by in Cape Verde. Thanks to the generosity of Jan Heritage and her husband and their very kind …

CHRISTMAS APPEAL UPDATE We have sooo many people to thank for their kindness and generosity this week. Thank you to @Denise Tedaldi, @Kim Jolliffe, @ColandBev Sharp, @Emma Rawson, and their families for bringing so many donations on holiday with them. Thank you also to Paul Nicholls for his football knit donations and thank you to Katie Dorney and Philippa Newey …

Our school appeal has been a HUGE success and it is thanks to ALL you amazing tourists who donated!!!! Thanks to your generosity, we were able to help 2 schools and a kindergarten enormously. To the junior school in Pretoria (a poor area of Espargos), we gave 110 children school bags with a full pencil case, colouring pens/pencils/crayons and a …