Rotary Bonaire Helps Jong Bonaire Preserve the Island's Culture

Rotary Bonaire has donated ANG 8.500 to the Youth Center Jong Bonaire to help support their Culture Preservation Program.

The center had a month of cultural workshops in March where the teens learned about 14 traditional island traditions and crafts. They then created projects about these cultural skills. From these activities the youth center will produce a series of culture worksheets to help preserve the skills and will also develop a 2010 calendar titled "Treasures of Bonaire", which will be available in September. The calendar will feature 12 teens working with 12 of the islands "grandinan" or elders, who taught the skills. It is hoped that teaching the teens and young people about the skills, and featuring them over the next years, will help preserve these traditional crafts for posterity.