PAST ACTIVITIES

Agente Jovem

It is a social action that promotes the personal, social and communitary development, offering the young people the opportunity to perform as transformation agents in their surroundings, bringing closer to everyday life concepts such as protagonismo juvenil, volunteering and citizenship. Read More...

Water & Life

About 70% of the Earth is covered with water, and 97% of that is part of the salty oceans. Only a small portion of the Earth s water is freshwater. This includes such things as rivers, lakes, and groundwater. Freshwater is needed for drinking, farming, and washing. Read More...

Barraco Cor

The project’s goal is to get inhabitants of townships or “favelas” on the move, so that they acquire knowledge on environmental issues and develop mutual support focused on the recuperation and humanization of the place where they live, enhancing therefore community cooperation. Read More...

Guitar Camerata

Music stimulates the mind, affection and sociability. Renders motor and auditive skills and eventually brings the possibility of self-sustainability through music. We reach back to traditional Brazilian folk music, specially erudite music. 2005 witnessed an upgrade on the personal and intellectual characteristics of the participants. Read More...

Conexão Fashion

Through qualification, citizen action and creation of new opportunities for personal and social growth, as well as assuring a regular income, this workshop, in partnership with the UN MDG’s –“everybody working for development”- helps enhance the youth and their families. Read More...

Conexão in Action

Glass fusing and sawing workshops were developed in 2004 and 2005. The output were home-made items and easily marketed artistic handcraft pieces. These products would guarantee both a revenue for the participant groups and support for the project. Read More...

Community at School

The programme was developed in partnership with LAEL- PUC/SP (a organization focused on public schools from the municipality of Carapicuiba). The reality surrounding these schools points out the need to involve not only pupils, but also their families and teachers in the process. Read More...

Smoking Adiction and Adding Value to the Schools

In 2004, two local schools (Alberto Kenworthy and Salomão Jorge) witnessed how the amount of smoking teenagers near the school increased significantly. This triggered the worries of the staff working at those schools, who asked out organization to design and carry out activities inviting youth to think about the dangers of smoking. Read More...

New Blood in Brazilian Volunteering

On 5th December 2002 (International Volunteer Day), our organization –partner of the UNV- and the NGO “Voluntários do Sangue” (Volunteers of blood), created this project, whose main goal was to raise people’s awareness about the importance of donating blood. Read More...