Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Community gatherings in the square will educate its residents on existing social, health and educational possibilities. The shows will introduce them to solutions that will make a lasting impact on all aspects of the community's development.

Project Message

When the government neglects their responsibilities to the welfare of its citizens, the only recourse are movements by grassroots social workers to educate the population and hopefully make an impact
- Christine Clauser, Director of Development

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Fátima Pontes,
General Coordinator
Rua Ida 223, Vila do Buriti
Macaxeira
Recife, CE 52.091-026
Brazil
01155 81 99614456
Email:

Project Sponsor

Dreams Can Be Foundation/Dreams Brasil

Organization

Learn more about Dreams Can Be Foundation and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Brazil and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on February 04, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 31, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Project Update, Escola Pernambucana de Circo

By Joshua Reed - Intern Dreams Can Be, February 04, 2008 06:00 PM

The EPC (Escola Pernambucana de Circo) is an institution involved with social, political, educational, cultural and artistic environment in the city of Recife, Brazil. The project is a model in its work with education in social circus, helping over 100 children, teenagers and young people while also being an effective part of forums and networks that allow a large basis of support and confidence in the fulfillment of its mission. EPC is also maintaining a political roll in the community, which is working through its actions in the sociopolitical formation of the people who are helped. This allows their empowerment as agents of social transformation in the search and construction of better life conditions within the community the city and eventually the country.

The Escola Pernambucana de Circo was one of the institutions which received the prize Escola Viva, through its featured work in education and culture. EPC received the award in the end of November 07, during the Encontro dos Pontos de Cultura (Gathering of the Culture Ends ) in Belo Horizonte. The award was given by Célio Turino, secretary of Programas e Projetos Culturais (Social Projects and Programs), to Fátima Pontes, chief officer of EPC (Escola Pernambucana de Circo).

One of the members of the troupe, Ronaldo Aguiar, was selected to work in the Universal Circus, in Atlanta, Georgia . Last Saturday, (January 19) Ronaldo was sent to Africa, where he will be in charge of the setting of a number of acrobat clowns. The number will be presented in a few months in the Universal Circus. A member of the Escola Pernambucana was the only Brazilian clown selected.

The organization has presently gained many opportunities to reinforce and improve its institutional structure, such as the construction of a new administrative center financed by Oxfam in 2007. With this center the EPC foresees new actions which will gather the União dos Moradores da Vila do Buriti (Inhabitants Union of the Buriti Suburb) along with other organizations that help the same audience in the Zona Norte of Recife, specifically in the neighborhood around Casa Amarela (Yellow House). This will allow them to establish more autonomy for the families of the students because of their efforts in the planning of the Centro da Juventude (Youth Center), The end goal is for it to be effectively a place of action that provides activities which give opportunities to the leadership and empowerment of the youth. To make this possible, the Organization has created a business plan and is now seeking financial support for its fulfillment. The plan focuses on the development and production of the artistic and cultural communications of the youth in the Troupe Circus.
The main goal of the business plan is to provide more opportunities for the generation of income through the development of art and culture in an organized way. This will be planned and administered by young people of the popular classes, which will show the prejudice society of today that youth from the outskirts can be productive and beneficial to the market of artistic and cultural services. The plan also provides the ability to acquire experience as artists and teachers, while others produce their means and self-support through their actions in the areas of art and culture.
The latest funds received from Global Giving have been used in the purchase of materials for the dance and theater classes, and also to repair some of the circus equipments.


Links:

• Youtube Video 1
• Youtube Video 2
• Youtube Video 3

• Band Practice on the Street
• Performance for the Kids
• Little Girl Being Taught by an Older Student

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