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Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers
Unable to provide a safe home for themselves and their children due to domestic abuse, these 25 women who were all teenage mothers learn necessary income-generation skills in order to be independent.
100 Needy Kids off the Street and Productive
The project gives 100 kids opportunities for learning, outlets for creativity & expression & physical exercise promoting peaceful community development and steering youth away from violence
Free Heart Surgeries for Rio's Poor Children
Provides access for poor families to medical professionals and life-saving heart surgeries for children who languish in sub-substandard medical situations and can die from inadequate care.
Fight for Peace Sports and Education Centre
Access to sport and solutions for 1400 youth and 180 regular visitors in Rio’s most dangerous favela that suffers from 20 years of rival drug trafficking wars; youth thrive in an environment of peace.
Alternatives to Violence for Rio Street Child
Community-based project in Baixada Fluminese, a needy suburb of Rio helps over 250 street children between the ages of 14-17, to overcome poverty & drug gangs by integration into art and education.
Dance & Theater Company: Alternatives to Drugs
Since 1996 the Compania Étnica has been giving professional artistic training to youth in a dangerous favela (slum) in Rio. Dance, theater and citizenship classes provide an alternative.
Off the Streets and Back in School to Stay in Rio
Artistic activities, psychological support, reintegration with families & school for 100 street kids & at-risk youth, with the aim of partcipating in the construction of a world more fair & democratic
Building a School for Early Child Literacy
Brazil's under funded school system means that most poor children leave primary school functionally illiterate. A community run school will teach reading and writing skills.
Amazon School - Education for Sustainability
Discussing and clarifying the conflicts that threaten the bio diversity and ultimately the sustainable development of Southern Amazon to aid in environmental awareness.
Be a Digital and Academic Citizen
Providing education, culture and work opportunities to socially re-integrate low income youth and "street children" in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
