The municipality of Porto Santo joined the Pijama Mission, becoming a Pajama Council. Thus, the Municipal Library organized a series of activities, for the youngest, which took place on November 20th, at Praça do Município.

The little ones, who joined this initiative, came dressed in pajamas and were able to watch the dramatization of the story 'The Forgotten Words', adapted by teacher Rute Areal, a text from Mundos de Vida with illustrations by Yara Kono. This story, written for children and parents, is the ninth book in the ‘’National Pajama Day’’ collection, and tells us about the importance and power of words in life.

The activities also included the choreography of the song ''Acreditar'', where teacher Vânia Morgado taught how to dance the 2021 National Pajama Day Dance-Song, and the singing of the song about Children's Rights “Every child has rights ”. At the end, the executive, also present at this celebration, offered a bookmark and a candy, kindly offered by the Porto Santo Children and Youth Protection Commission, to all participants.

The municipality thanks all the participants in the recording of the story ''The Forgotten Words'', namely the teacher Rute Areal, Lara Quaresma, Raquel Silva, João Tomás Melim, Bernardo Batista, Conceição Latas, Manuel Marques, Lisandra Silva, Sandra Vasconcelos and Sonia Freitas. Special thanks to Sónia Soares, who accepted this challenge, recording the story and editing the sound, and BRGYM for the choreography of the songs.

The Municipality of Porto Santo celebrated the National Maritime Day, involving the community in several actions to clean up the coast and also one of the main water lines on the island, the cochino stream, unfortunately the target of pollution.

Between 15 and 19 November, 4 beach cleaning campaigns were carried out, aimed at students from schools in Porto Santo, which took place between the bathing area of ​​Ribeiro Salgado and Fontinha and involved 114 students and teachers, who collected a total of 63.4 kg of garbage, taken mainly from the dune area, including butts, plastics, construction materials, batteries, among others.

In an initiative that involved several local entities, PSP, GNR, Air Force and the Porto Santo Security Detachment, also extended to the community in general, two points of the Cochino stream were cleaned, which involved 31 volunteers who collected 380 kg of waste. This location was chosen as a way to sensitize the community to the importance of cleaning the streams to prevent coastal and marine pollution.

These campaigns were part of the Porto Santo Sem Lixo Marinho project and the European Week for Waste Prevention.

Photo credits: Fábio Brito, Rita Pires and Luisa Drummond