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Brazil Retired Projects

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Job Training and Internships for Favela Youth
Brazil, Children
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. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Training Youths to keep them out of the Drug Trade
Brazil, Children
Working through a grassroots community centre in Borel, one of Rio’s most conflict-ridden favelas, to bring opportunities to 1300 youth through practical training and an alternative to the drugs trade progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Music Brings Hope and Opportunity to Youth in Rio
Brazil, Children
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
retired
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Lunch for Children in Free NGO Day-Care Center
Brazil, Children
This NGO day-care center offers meals and diverse educational activities at no cost for 60 children. The center allows their extremely poor families to work and/or seek familial sustenance. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Creche Aids Families in Violent Rio Favela
Brazil, Education
Community-based preschool in Rio’s most dangerous favela that suffers from 20 years of rival drug trafficking wars aids working families & delivers targeted early childhood education to 45 toddlers. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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An Alternative to Child Prostitution and Begging
Brazil, Children
Using art, music, dance and theatre to attract 178 children off the streets and the rubbish dump. Providing an alternative to child labor whilst also encouraging self-esteem and community education. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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A Lifeline for a Severely Disadvantaged Community
Brazil, Education
A community centre is needed to continue to provide vital services to an impoverished community of 4000, where many families and children live hand to mouth by combing the garbage heap and begging progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Cultural Heritage Preservation Saves Kids Lives
Brazil, Children
Bringing alternatives through the performance arts, education & work programs to those children faced by the harshest of conditions, where child labor, prostitution and the drugs trade are rife. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Saving Wildlife Through Environmental Education
Brazil, Environment
Donate 2,000 educational kits, containing video and informational folder to public schools in the Distrito Federal state. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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After-School Program educates Rio’s excluded youth
Brazil, Education
Local professional teachers volunteer tutoring and encouragement to the individual and collective development of 50 children/youth living in a poor rural area severely lacking educational resources. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Provide heart surgeries for Rio's poorest children
Brazil, Health
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
retired
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Broadcast Education for Favela Youth Diplomas
Brazil, Education
Engaging and educating São Paulo’s underprivileged communities through the use of cinema, documentaries and circus art. Runs open air screenings, circus skills workshops and public lectures & debates. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Renewable Energy Systems for Better Water Access
Brazil, Climate Change
Training women to install, maintain & use renewable energy systems for irrigation and water pumping. The systems enhance sanitation and generate income through better agricultural practices. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Rehabilitating Convicted Men through IT education
Brazil, Education
The Pemano project is helping to rehabilitate convicted young men (between 18 and 25 years old) in a prison in Vale do Paraíba (São Paulo-Brazil) through IT education and digital inclusion progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Technology Training for Women Radio Communicators
Brazil, Technology
Training women radio communicators to maintain the computers of their Internet telecenters, providing digital access for communities in marginalized regions of Brazil. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Income-Generation Skills for Battered Mothers
Brazil, Education
A center is needed to help 150 youths-most of them battered- wives to learn handicraft skills to become self-sufficient and support their families. In turn, their own young are not forced into crime. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Bring Renewable Energy and Sustainable Electricity
Brazil, Climate Change
Innovative rural electrification model for poor, isolated families that uses renewable energy, social business models and small local entrepreneurs to provide sustainable electricity access. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Theatre improves Health Inequities in Brazil
Brazil, Education
Shows are staged monthly for community outreach and to educate public about basic health and citizen rights, in a community plagued by lack of education, poverty, alcoholism and child prostitution. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Bringing Digital Inclusion to Amazonian Residents
Brazil, Economic Development
CDI-Pará is part of CDI - an NGO who conducts technology and civic engagement education and trainings. Pará is a large, impoverished state in the Amazon region with a complex environmental landscape. progress reportread updates from the field
retired
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Youth Venture Brazil
Brazil, Education
This project provides seed grants for young people as well as online support, workshops and gatherings, to help young people develop their projects in order to adress social changes.
retired
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Bringing IT to one of the poorest states of Brazil
Brazil, Education
CDI administers 26 computer and IT schools in the impoverished Amazonian state of Maranhão. These centers create opportunities for better jobs and lives for participants from these communities.
retired
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