GUYS, the Festival 2009 is around the corner and WE WANT YOU to be part of it.  It’s going to be a week full of culture and fun, which only Capoeira can give you. Don’t miss the chance to see as well as be part of Capoeira, Maculele, Samba and much more.  Keep your eyes on the website for more info soon!!!

LET’S TRAIN HARD

Here are dates for the Bantus Capoeira Asia Pacific Batizado Circuit 2009

• Perth - 26th Oct to 1st Nov
• KL - 3rd Nov to 8th Nov
• Singapore - 11th Nov to 15th Nov
• Bangkok - 19th Nov to 22nd Nov
• Jakarta - 26th Nov to 29th Nov

Poster Design Competition

This year we are holding a competition to design the Festival 2009 poster.

The poster will need to include the following:

1. Title of the event
2. Date of the event
3. Special guests names
4. Short description about the event

The winner will receive free entry to Festival 2009. For more information speak to Marissa.

Submission date by 10^th September.

By Adrian Low:

The well known Chow Kit area in Kuala Lumpur, famous for some of its best kept secret street food stalls, is also equally infamous as the place where the city’s destitute can be found. With the help of Adopt Action Group Malaysia (AAG), Bantus Capoeira Malaysia (BCM) is volunteering weekly classes for the children of Rumah Nur Salam (RNS) right in the heart of Chow Kit.

Bantus Capoeira is from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. They are active in reaching out to street children and teach them capoeira in hope of keeping them out of trouble. BCM would like to carry out the same initiative here. By having capoeira classes in RNS, they are hoping to be able to reach out to more street children in RNS’s efforts to keep them out of harm’s way.

Rumah Nur Salam is a 24-hour sanctuary where street children can walk in and out freely. The idea is to keep these children out of the streets where they are at high risk to undesirable elements like drugs, prostitution, human-traffickers, just to name a few. Currently RNS is the only child crisis centre in Malaysia where they assist, protect and address children issues. To date there are more than 400 children registered with RNS. They get at least a proper meal a day, some exposure to education and basic healthcare which are usually unattainable for most of them.

Adopt Action Group is a watchdog group of concerned civilians from varied backgrounds formed to monitor the status of abandoned children found with the objective of them ended up in homes instead of orphanages. AAG works with the existing system to facilitate the adoption of abandoned children by disseminating information and pointing potential adoptive parents to the right direction. AAG works closely with RNS to champion their common cause.