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We call on you to save Instituto de
Odivelas (Portugal), a school empowering girls since 1900 

We call on you to save Instituto de Odivelas (Portugal), a school empowering girls since 1900 

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  • Instituto de Odivelas , created 117 years ago, is the only public boarding school in Portugal for girls aged 9 to 18.
  • IO provides a top class education and high standards to daughters and orphans of military personnel, and civilians, including girls from countries that use Portuguese as a language.
  • IO's phased extinction meant that the girls are being shifted to the equivalent army school for boys, and that they have lost their curriculum, their space and all their symbols&colon uniform, hymn and flag. In the boy's school they are now handling guns since the age of 9. Their education became a boy's education.
  • IO has always occupied the highest academic ranks among secondary education schools in Portugal .
  • IO occupies a convent from the XIII century, in prim conditions, adapted with dormitories, classrooms, science and language laboratories, computers, gymnasium and swimming pool. Specific curriculum choices include cooking and learning to deal with young babies.
  • Former IO students have distinguished themselves in their professions, which include arts, science, engineering, medicine, literature and politics .
  • The government uses economic arguments to close the school, but those have been shown not to be correct. Among the military schools in operation, IO proved to be the cheapest and the most successful .
  • As elections for Parliament on the 4th October 2015 resulted in the defeat of the acting Prime Minister and his government, we call on our new Prime Minister, Dr António Costa, and his government to save the girls’ school of Instituto de Odivelas , which on the 23rd October 2015 received from the President of the Portuguese Republic, Professor Anibal Cavaco Silva, the golden medal for the services rendered to the Nation.
  • As the new United Nations General Secretary, António Guterres, wrote ‘…Preventing conflict means going back to basics– strengthening institutions and building resilient societies. It means protecting and empowering women and girls, one of the most important steps in sustainable development.’

LET US SAVE INSTITUTO DE ODIVELAS.


LET THERE BE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR GIRLS AND BOYS IN EUROPE IN THE XXI CENTURY.

LET THE GIRLS AND THEIR PARENTS RETAIN A CHOICE FOR THEIR PREFERRED SCHOOL.









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