Fight for Peace Sports & Education Centre
Education in Brazil
SummaryFight for Peace Sports & Education Centre in Brazilian Favela provides real alternatives to violence, crime and the drug trade to youth through sports, education and access to the formal job market.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
In Rio de Janeiro, gun-related incidents are the primary cause of death for young people. In the favelas, children as young as 10 are employed as armed soldiers, lookouts, drug sellers and carriers between warring drug factions. Through sport and education the successful Fight for Peace Program now helps 40 young people tackle the problems they face daily living in a community where crime and armed drug faction employment are often the only real alternatives to a life of poverty and exclusion.
Activities
Build a new sports centre in the community on donated land to serve 110 more children in a safer space. The building will include a gym, weight room, training rooms, an equipped classroom for students and a computer room with 10 donated computers.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $125
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 $125 . The original project funding goal was $70,000.
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
Sport as a lifestyle, a culture of peace, education for a future and access to the work market for more youth. Monthly sporting events and paid gym memberships offered to community will provide partial financial self-sufficiency to the program.
Project Message
I see how boys get into drug trafficking because they’re not at school and just bumming around. There’s a lot of peer pressure too. I’ve done a lot of bad things in my life, but now I’m a role model.
- Rodrigo da Silva, 23, 2 years later Rodrigo is also a paid staff member
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Luke Dowdney Coordinator
Anthropologist Children in Armed Violence
Viva Rio
Rua do Russel, 76 - Glória
Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22210-010
Brazil
55-21-2249-5772
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 September 23, 2004
