Football Kits delivered to the children of Sal Island
This week, The Cape Verde Foundation helped long-term supporters Kevin Thornton, Chanelle Ruddock and Stuart Campbell donate sports equipment to Espargos schools. The team set about collecting the donations back in the UK, with the kits made up of various sweaters, shorts, clothing, training balls and gloves. Kevin and Stuart spent a good deal of […]
Summer School returns to Cape Verde
As the schoolchildren of Sal Island look forward to another Summer School, we take a look back at the triumph of last year as well as this year’s amazing event. Last year’s event, which took place during July at the School of Espargos, was so popular that it had barely finished before the plans to […]
Your last chance to donate!
As a part of the fantastic weekend held for the launch of Llana Beach Hotel and Bikini Beach Club back in December, we had a sensational day for the children at MELIÃ Dunas Beach Resort & Spa in the amphitheatre. It seem as though a good time was had by all and we wanted […]
Christmas Party 2016
After a successful few months of appealing and collecting shoeboxes, we were thrilled to hold our Christmas Party on Monday 12th December, during which we handed out the much-anticipated presents to the children of Sal Island, Cape Verde. Hosted by The Resort Group PLC Founder, Rob Jarrett and the President of the Foundation, it was […]
Christmas Shoebox Campaign 2016
Christmas Shoeboxes flooded in for this year’s Christmas Shoebox Campaign for the children of Cape Verde. For many, this will be the only present they receive so we asked people to put extra effort into their shoeboxes. In light of the excellent response, we wanted to give a huge thank you to companies and individuals […]
Christmas Shoebox Appeal 2016
Make a child’s Christmas With Christmas approaching fast and some exciting events coming soon, we’re launching our Christmas Shoebox Appeal for 2016. Our idea is to give you the chance to deliver ‘Christmas in a box’ to Cape Verde families in need at Christmas time. For many children, this could be the only Christmas present […]
The Cape Verde Foundation sponsors Pink Power Walk
The Foundation was delighted to sponsor the Pink Power Club walk that took place on Sunday October 16th on Sal Island. The 18km walk in aid of Breast Cancer was organised by Dr Lidiane as part of “Pink October” (Outubro Rosa) awareness campaign on Sal Island. Starting from Espargos at 6am, 40 women participated and […]
All Donations Welcome
We would like to take the opportunity to thank Nick and Sarah-Jane Toseland for their generous donation. The couple came into the office yesterday to kindly donate £60 to our Foundation, for which we are very grateful. It goes towards improving the lives of families and children in Cape Verde, especially through education and sport. […]
English Summer School
Education is a key point of progression for the foundation in Cape Verde so we were more than happy to support our Portuguese law firm GPA with their English Summer School. The school was established to teach local children to speak English and has been especially successful this year. With the help of The Resort […]
Mae’s Bake Sale
One of our intrepid supporters Nicola Andrews took part in an amazing skydive earlier this year and it inspired her to do more for the Foundation, for which we are eternally grateful. And her generosity had quite the impact when Nicola went to do a talk about the Foundation at a local Brownies group. Mae, […]