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November, 2015 

Playa Del Carmen, Mexico 

Capoeira: New GVI Mexico Community Activity

Objective

The objective of this new initiative is to create an ongoing sports project with our new partner

Capoeira Cativeiro in Playa del Carmen.

Summary

In September 2015, staff members from the Mexico Community Projects met with a representative

from Capoeira Cativeiro in Playa del Carmen to discuss the potential of a new partnership. The aim

was to develop a way for GVI to support this partner with their Capoeira classes, with a new set of

classes starting within the downtown area of Playa del Carmen.

Report

This monthly achievement report will be focussing on a new sports initiative that has been started

within the GVI Mexico Community projects. Through the efforts of a previous volunteer, Omar Car-

dona from Capoeira Cativeiro in Playa del Carmen made contact with the base manager in order to

form a new partnership with GVI.

As described in the

previous monthly

achievement report,

the foundation of

Capoeira (1,2), whichstarted in Brazil, is the

intolerance of discrim-

ination of others

based on their ethnici-

ty, social status or any

other defining attrib-

utes that could cause

prejudice. This means

that anyone who

wants to train is al-

lowed. This creates anenvironment where

people from varied

backgrounds are able

to interact, often when

they would never have had the opportunity to do so. This helps promote tolerance, equality and

acceptance of all.

This martial arts incorporates dance, movement, percussion and non-contact martial arts into its

activities and provides excellent physical exercise, promotes discipline and provides focus to its par-

ticipants. This is potentially very beneficial for children who have social issues who require direction

and guidance and in the past, Omar and his colleagues have provided training to children in ex-change for helping with cleaning and upkeep within the training premises with very positive results.

 Fig. 1The first visit of Omar to Invasores 

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After an initial discussion between

Omar and our base manager, it was

apparent that there was a possibil-

ity of the formation of a new pro-

 ject. Specifically, GVI could providestaff and volunteers that would be

trained in basic Capoeira with the

plan that they would support Omar

with a new group of children due to

start classes within downtown Pla-

ya del Carmen. So far, 4 staff mem-

bers have been to at least 4 ses-

sions of Capoeira and we have

started taking volunteers as well.

As a result of this new partnership, we have incorporated a Capoeira class within our timetable for

our Invasores initiative (3), which is supported by both GVI staff and volunteers. It has been a great

success with the children in Invasores and has been included since our first visit back to Invasores in

September, 2015.

Overall this partnership has been very successful and we are looking forward to being involved with

the classes of the new group of children. There were some other potentials ways in which GVI could

help support this initiative. The potential scope of this project is very exciting and we are looking

forward to seeing where it goes in the near and far future.

References:

1.  https://www.princeton.edu/~capoeira/ln_abt.html

2.  http://cativeirocapoeira.mex.tl/photo_131622_Sin-Nombre.html

3.  GVI Mexico Community Projects October Monthly Achievement Report

If you want to know more about the childcare project in Mexico ,please check out:

http://www.gvi.co.uk/programs/volunteer-childcare-projects-mexico/

 Fig. 2The kids and GVI staff and volunteers warming up for the Capoeira

class