Job Training and Internships for Favela Youth
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Summary
Scholarships provide 20 Rio youths with long term training in performance art, circus, music and professionalism in order to provide an enjoyable but tangible income alternative to drug trafficking.
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Received $1,451 from 20 donations from people like:
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In this favela, where whole families live on less than $75/month, youths turn to violence and the drug trade as the ‘best option’ available to improve their social and financial status. Since 2000 the ‘Grow & Live’ project has been promoting alternatives in these marginalized communities and has now introduced this unique financial scholarship program which realistically enables participants to give a long term commitment to their learning and eventually go on to find alternative employment.
Activities
A balance of practical and interpersonal training is provided: circus skills, theatre, music, dance, communication and professionalism. Once trained, performances are carried out for businesses, parties and the public to generate much-needed income.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $1,451
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $3,630
Total Funding Goal: $5,081
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
Provides a respectable, sustainable income outside of trafficking for these youths & their families, whilst increasing their self esteem. In turn these youths then become an example and spread a wider message through their actions and performances
Project Message
Project leaders desperately ask us for job training and internships for youth in order that when they finally graduate from programs they see the value in the changes they have made in their lives.
- Christine Clauser, Dreams Can Be Foundation Development Director
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 13, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 24, 2006.
Latest Update from the Field
Update August 2008
By Vinicius Daumas - Program Coordinator, August 13, 2008 05:47 PM
This update was translated by staff and volunteers of Dreams Can Be Foundation
August, 2008
1543 Job Training and Internships for Favela Youth – Crescer e Viver
Dear Partners,
CRESCER E VIVER thanks all the people that have believed in us and continue believing and have helped us to arrive where we are today. The project SCHOOL OF SOCIAL CIRCUS continues taking care of the 200 children, adolescents and youth that live in situations of risk and social vulnerability. This year it was possible to characterize our actions through investments in educative materials and new partnerships, as well as the contribution of volunteers and financial donations. We hope to continue counting on your help!
In this project, the kids participate in playful, artistic and cultural activities that contribute to their educational and childhood development. More than 14 circus modalities are offered among other artistic languages. Our more advanced youth are now acting as monitors and beginning to teach the youther kids what they have learned. Moreover, those that more develop their abilities and circus techniques act as youth artists in the shows made by CRESCER E VIVER.
Djferson Mendes, 22 years old, was a car washer and was out of the school. Today, he is one of the most distinguished youth in our Institution for his commitment, devotion and talent in making and teaching circus. He has also returned to his studies, and he became a great artist and example for the other boys and girls of the project.
Alan Davi, 21 years old, participates in the project since the beginning, seven years ago, today he acts as an educator and artist for CRESCER E VIVER. His income has increased and his capacity to establish new bonds has increased significantly and teaching the beginners has made it possible to establish an economic security and has added to his capacity to work in this field.
The social change means steps toward the economic question. Offering activities that contribute to the educative development of children and youth, in determined moment needs to create alternative measures for economic inclusion of the youth. In this direction, we saw that the best way is to focus on their abilities in educative and artistic activities, to act as artists and educators; these being a mechanism of work and income generation. Vinicius Daumas (Program Coordinator)
CRESCER E VIVER decided to bet on the artistic potential of the youth served, investing in the production of a circus show that could give visibility to the youth and generate work and income. In the last year the show Vida da Artista ‘Life of Artist’ was a landmark for CRESCER E VIVER in that it proved the concrete possibility for change and the capacity of generating a cultural product of quality. Now, in 2008, we are undertaking a new spectacle that will fortify the idea of creating a Circus Company for the youth served by CRESCER E VIVER. These youth, beyond acting as the protagonists of this Company will form the board of educators who will act in the project.
For us, partnership does not come only through donations. It is a fact that your financial contribution has been a significant collaboration with our project, however, we believe that your involvement and the follow up of our actions on behalf of our partners can bring many more benefits. We ask that you continue believing in action such as ours. Follow us, ask questions, if you have any doubts ask us, come visit us, therefore we are sure that simple gestures can generate great results for people in need.
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