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A new school for the children Pygmies of Ngombé

Privat Tiburce Massanga

 “Langoani, Idjouko, Pangoani”. Three words in three dialects Pygmies mikaya, bangombé and mbendjelé of the north of Congo-Brazzaville which means Réveillez! Such is L ’ name of the news and first school of the seminomad children of the forests of Ngombé in the department of Sangha. The Center D ’ education for the people autochtones (CEPA) thus officially opened its doors, on November 16 last, to a hundred D ’ older children between 6 and 14 years and N ’ having ever attended a classroom before.

Pionnière, “Langoani, Idjouko, Pangoani” is the first school devoted exclusively to this abandoned and forgotten fringe Congolese population in this forest zone of Ngombé which S ’ extends on a tropical surface D ’ approximately 1,22 million hectares of forest where the Pygmies start with sédentariser with L ’ arrived of L ’ forestry development in their natural environment of life.

The CEPA is an initiative D ’ AGIRabcd, a French governmental organization who uses competences of French pensioners to intervene in development projects in the countries of the South and of L ’ Is. These competences multiple and are varied, like L ’ teaching and L ’ framing in this structure in the forests of Ngombé, with more than 1000 kilometers of Brazzaville. L ’ school was born from the desire of the parents Pygmies to see their children integrating the official educational circuit because the latter are often rejected public schools by their comrades D ’ ethnos groups bantous, causing thus and more their fold in the forest campings. Also, TO ACT answered the distress cry of the Pygmies by creating this singular school which does not form part of the official education system.

To see the continuation

Association AGIRabcd (General association of the Reprocessed Speakers Actions the Voluntary ones for the Co-operation and the Development) was created in 1983. It gathers anticipated retirements and pensioners of all the occupational categories and all the branches of industry like workmen, technicians, craftsmen, professionals of agriculture, teaching, health, insurance, bank, engineers and executives, managers, etc The members D ’ AGIRabcd voluntarily bring their competences and their experiments to France and with L ’ foreign, in form: of teaching, within the framework of the francophonie of interventions of professional training of design and support to projects of international solidarity of health