Building a School for Early Child Literacy
Child literacy Brazil
SummaryBrazil'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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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The low quality and insufficient public education in Brazil’s under funded school system means that most children leave primary school functionally illiterate. This community seeks to solve this problem. A community built and run school in one of the poorest areas of the country will guarantee that their children receive fundamental early childhood literacy skills. To be poor in Brazil means to be disenfranchised from the wider society and the opportunities that come with it.
Activities
Primary school classes will be held daily with alphabetization taking place alongside of art classes, history through reading, play time and physical as well as health education and meals. The 20 children are from a project that serves 280 youth.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $2,300
Funding Information
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $2,300 . The original project funding goal was $2,300.
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
Functional literacy means a better chance at a brighter future with more opportunities- 20 children who can read - it may be a first for their family. They are lucky if they get to complete the primary school years due to family poverty.
Project Message
Ensuring literacy and early childhood development provides skills and opportunity sorely lacking in a society that has the highest disparity of wealth in the world according to the UN.
- Christine Clauser, Dreams Can Be Foundation Development Director
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Christine Clauser
Director of Development - Dreams Can Be Foundation
Rua Rainha Guilhermina 90/502
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22441-120
Brazil
552122495772
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Dreams Can Be Foundation
Dreams Can Be Foundation 945 Menoher Blvd.
Johnstown,
PA
15905
United States
(814) 255-4379
http://www.dreamscanbe.org/
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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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 24, 2006
