OUR PHILOSOPHY

WORD FROM THE FOUNDER

Many of us benefited in our youth from free activities offered by social centers, scouting groups, summer camps, and other institutions. Looking back, we can now acknowledge how these experiences helped us grow in many ways. Now that we are adults, we have the capacity to help others in turn.

To me, this is a fundamental aspect of a normal society, where individuals are part of a whole and not just self-centered.

With this in mind and based on our experience in São Tomé, we realized that offering clubs and activities is one of the best ways, with our limited resources, to contribute to the development of and express our gratitude to this island that welcomed us many years ago.

 

J-Maxime
Founder
CACAE - 2024

SOME INSPIRING QUOTES

ABOUT EDUCATION

"The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life."
Plato

“If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children. ”
Confucius

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Lao Zi

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela

ABOUT HELPING OTHERS

"For it is in giving that we receive"
Saint Francis of Assisi

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity"
Leo Tolstoy

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give"
Winston Churchill

“But the real way to get happiness is by giving out happiness to other people."
Baden Powell

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”
Baden Powell