For 10 days, in Kinshasa, many of the people called to lead the project of the new Saint Joseph de Calasanz school complex that is gradually becoming a reality are meeting. It is a team effort between the Piarist demarcation of the DR Congo, Itaka Escolapios, the Calasancio School of Bilbao and the Peñascal cooperative.
With the financial support of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, we are trying to set up a new infant, primary and secondary school, with a technical profile that will allow the pupils to dream more clearly about their future and take concrete steps to get closer to it. In a country like the DR Congo, it is especially important to promote a school with a strong transformational character, which is strongly inserted in its neighbourhood and promotes different social projects. It encourages boys and girls to build a new, better DR Congo for everyone, placing the search for the “common good” at the centre of educational work.
To promote this last point, Jon Ander Zarate and Amaya Lecumberri are promoting several training sessions focused on educational planning, teamwork, the school in full time and the participation of the whole community in the educational processes to promote dynamics that allow to increase and strengthen the Piarist subject.
Rosa Gallego and Pedro Marañón are accompanying them during their stay to support the work and monitor the process, which will continue for another two years and will include a visit from the Peñascal cooperative to accompany the definition of the technical branches.