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International Children's Book Day

The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, famous for his tales including "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbette" or "The Little Mermaid", was born on April 2, 1805. Since 1967, the date of April 2 is dedicated to the book for children to fight against illiteracy. Sylvie Méviane Fourn, founder of the Imya library in Port-Gentil, from her South African "exile", sent a video where she read a Gabonese tale to the children gathered for the occasion around the artist and writer Nanda La Gaboma . For this, she chose a Gabonese tale with a motivating moral which, in the Omyene language, declares: "oba wi bosso wa lwanizi ndjina ni ndjana", which means "by dint of waiting for the next mango tree, the gorilla remained without eat ". To say "Never put off until later what you can do now". The story is taken from the book Inkogo, Petites fables de la forêt équatoriale, written by two Gabonese authors, Yveline and Florisse MABBYALAS. After also reading some stories to children, Nanda took the opportunity to appeal to writers to also invest in children's literature.

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Port-Gentil Child Friendly City Initiative

Partners will develop and implement an operational plan Donatien Tameko, deputy representative of Unicef ??in Gabon, stayed in Port-Gentil, at the head of a working mission following the signing, last July, of a memorandum valid for three years for obtaining , by the city of Port-Gentil, from the Ville Amie des Enfants label. This involved making a first step, a few weeks before the end of the first year, with local partners, in particular the ad hoc commission for monitoring the acts of the memorandum, private sector operators and members of Civil society. With the ad hoc committee, it will be a question of developing, from the action plan drafted at the time of the signing of the memorandum, an operational plan which will serve as a roadmap for all the partners. This will be presented in particular to economic operators who, as Donatien Tameko pointed out by congratulating and thanking them, have always responded to support development projects for the benefit of populations, particularly through the mechanisms of Social Responsibility. of Companies (CSR). The UN official also praised the action of civil society organizations for the protection of children, very active in the field, and whose role in the implementation of many projects is expected. Faithful AFANOU EDEMBE

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World Autism Awareness Day

Placed this year under the theme "Towards a neuro-inclusive world for all", World Autism Awareness Day, commemorated on April 2 each year, was celebrated the day before, in Port-Gentil, at the library of Imya district. Opportunity to raise awareness among children in primary classes who attend this reading and tutoring space which is open to them free of charge. Writer, slammer or even poetess, the artist Nanda la Gaboma spoke to the children, with words at their fingertips, on the essentials of what they needed to know about autism. Above all, how to behave with children who are affected. After explaining that autism is not contagious and that autistic children have the same rights as other children, she led her young audience to describe the behaviors to have towards autistic children. And the children respond: “we must love them”; “we have to talk to them”; “we have to play with them”; “we have to share our toys with them”; “we have to teach them what we know how to do”. They also understood that in turn, they could learn a lot from autistic children, because there are areas in which they are very good, especially music. An exercise intended to contribute to the acceptance of autism within society.

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Insecurity in Port-Gentil: The judge of the Juvenile Court of Port-Gentil escapes from an attack

Loik MOUGUENGUI, a juvenile judge from Port-Gentil, narrowly escaped a stabbing. The events occurred on April 2, while he was at his home. He was the person who posted a message on a forum where he recounted what happened: “I almost suffered a robbery or a murder at my house at around 12 at night. An intruder scaled my barrier, armed with a machete, scissors, and a backpack. Luckily the neighbors saw it and we were able to get our hands on it." We are here before a new episode of insecurity that lives in the neighborhoods of Port-Gentil where not a day goes by without being informed of robberies of all kinds. Attacks that take place in broad daylight, in the midst of passersby and whose perpetrators are, for the most part, young people. Among them, many repeat offenders. This raises the question of initiatives to be taken to reintegrate young people who have served their sentences and who very often find themselves without prospects. Faithful AFANOU EDEMBE

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Expensive Life: Port-Gentil Hosted The Provincial Meetings Of Ogooué-Maritime

Place this year under the theme "Towards a neuro-inclusive world for all", World Autism Awareness Day, commemorated on April 2 each year, was celebrated the day before, in Port-Gentil, at the library del barrio Imya. Opportunity to raise awareness among the children of the primary classes who attend this conference and tutoring space which is open to them free of charge. Writer, slammer or even poetess, the artist Nanda la Gaboma spoke to the children, with words at their fingertips, on the essentials of what they needed to know about autism. Above all, how to behave with children who are affected. After explaining that autism is not contagious and that autistic children have the same rights as other children, she led her young audience to describe the behaviors to have towards autistic children. And the children answer: “we must love them”; “we have to talk to them”; “we have to play with them”; “we have to share our toys with them”; “we have to teach them what we know how to do”. They also understood that in turn, they could learn a lot of things from autistic children, because there are areas in which they are very good, especially music. An exercise intended to contribute to the acceptance of autism within society.

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Assa Diawara National Oratory Art Contest Of The Joseph Ambourouè Avaro High School On The Highest Step

Organized until now only with establishments in Port-Gentil, the public speaking competition created by the NGO Festival de la Jeunesse took on another dimension this year by opening up to other provinces of Gabon, in this case Estuary, Moyen-Ogooué and Ngounié. He has just delivered his verdict. Organized since February, under the leadership of Paul Toukourou, president of the Youth Festival, the preselections of Libreville, Lambaréné, Mouila and Port-Gentil made it possible to select eight candidates, i.e. two per province. The following were chosen to represent their respective establishments: Alene Biyoghe and Ndombi Okoumba for the Aubin Georges Modjekoude high school in Lambaréné, Minto Niels for the Michel Dirat Complex (Grand Libreville), Abagha Akwe for the Mohamed Arissani high school (Grand Libreville), Moanda Bignoumba for the high school of excellence (Mouila), Ughulu Naomie for the Saint-Gabriel high school (Mouila), Assa Diawara for the Joseph Ambourouè Avaro high school (Port-Gentil) and Essono Mvono for the Islamic high school (Port-Gentil). Faced with a jury made up of public speaking professionals, a representative of the Youth Festival, environmental education professionals who are partners of the NGO, namely Mouyissi Environnement from Mouila and OELO from Lambaréné, the finalists had to deliver on themes inspired by the World Climate Week held in Gabon in September, on the one hand, and the recent One Forest Summit in Libreville, on the other. The final, first scheduled to be held in Port-Gentil, finally took place by videoconference, following the tragedy of the sinking of the boat Esther Miracle. By presenting a plea on the impact of deforestation, Assa Diawara, from Joseph Ambourouè Avaro high school was crowned, followed by Essono Mvono from Islamic high school and Ughulu Naomie from Saint-Gabriel high school, both tied. An appointment has been made for next year, certainly with the entry into the running of other provinces. Faithful AFANOU EDEMBE

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