Portugal is the first country to host the international artistic project “The Doors of Hope – Jubilee 2025”, promoted by the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, whose mayor is Cardinal and poet José Tolentino Mendonça, who visited the prison.
The mothers’ wing at Tires prison has a new image. It is an intervention carried out with the inmates, which is part of a project by the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, of which Cardinal Tolentino de Mendonça is responsible.
The artist Fernanda Fragateiro led the work and gave creative freedom to the women who live in the wing for pregnant inmates and mothers at Tires prison and who they wanted to go further and make the cells more welcoming.
To remember the sea, Natacha painted the inside of her cell blue. With an eight-year sentence, he has already served a year and a half. Tires arrived pregnant and was able to keep her son until he was three years old.
Portugal is the first country to receive the international artistic project “The Doors of Hope – Jubilee 2025”promoted by the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See, whose prefect is Cardinal and poet José Tolentino Mendonça, who was present at the space.
The Minister of Justice, who also visited the prison establishment, rules out that it is the State’s role to carry out projects like this.
This community work extended has sewing: the inmates created pillows, which bring comfort to mothers and children.
