Brazil Funded Projects

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Music Brings Hope and Opportunity to Youth in Rio
Brazil, Children
Funded $10,800 (of $10,800 requested)
The gift of music – through both learning and performance - transforms 180 youths’ lives in Rio’s poor communities, bringing happiness, a sense of worth and potential job and scholarship opportunities progress reportread updates from the field
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Fight for Peace Sports and Education Centre
Brazil, Education
Funded $4,000 (of $4,000 requested)
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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Dance & Theater Company: Alternatives to Drugs
Brazil, Education
Funded $1,000 (of $1,000 requested)
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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Off the Streets and Back in School to Stay in Rio
Brazil, Education
Funded $3,960 (of $3,960 requested)
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
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Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers
Brazil, Economic Development
Funded $2,840 (of $2,840 requested)
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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Free Heart Surgeries for Rio's Poor Children
Brazil, Health
Funded $4,500 (of $4,500 requested)
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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Protect Rainforest With Sustainable Practices
Brazil, Environment
Funded $20,000 (of $20,000 requested)
Protect the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil through the promotion of sustainable land use and reforestation. Reduce human environmental pressure and prevent species extinction. progress reportread updates from the field
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Alternatives to Violence for Rio Street Child
Brazil, Education
Funded $3,079 (of $3,079 requested)
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. progress reportread updates from the field
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Building a School for Early Child Literacy
Brazil, Education
Funded $2,300 (of $2,300 requested)
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.
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AIDS Project: Youths Using Art to Fight for Life
Brazil, Education
Funded $2,464 (of $19,800 requested)
Project of mobilization of young people from low-income communities who spread AIDS information using theatre techniques.
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