By Cristina Diogo-translated by Dreams Can Be | Project director
Update for Global Giving project “A Lifeline for a Severely Disadvantaged Community” proj # 1548 translated by Dreams Can Be Foundation interns.
We would like to note that we are extremely proud of this project and their wonderful achievements!
1. In what way did your project improve in the last year? Recent Developments: a) Construction of the Instituto Ecocidadania Juriti center, b) Enlargement of the mobile experience of the Expresso Digital (Digital Express – access to information technology), c) Circo Escola de Ecocidadania (Ecology and Citizenship Circus School) was recognized as a national ‘Ponto de Cultura’ (National Point of Cultural Reference) by Brazil’s Minister of Culture, d) Realization of partnerships with the Ceará State Government through SECULT – Secretaria do Estado e da Cultura (State and Culture Secretariat) and STDS – Secretaria do Trabalho e Desenvolvimento Social (Work and Social Development Secretariat), e) The constant support from Dreams Can Be Foundation and the opportunity to be inserted in the Global Giving website; f) Increasing of the professionals board, the joining of 20 volunteers, institutional partnerships in the municipal, state, and federal areas g) And after March 2008, we will begin working on weekends with the support of Projeto Criança Esperança / UNESCO / Rede Globo 2. Was it possible to help more people than before? a) Yes. In the present moment we were able to increase the number of young people helped, to acquire more equipment and we are offering free access to internet to 24 neighborhoods from Juazeiro do Norte through the Expresso Digital (Digital Express). 3. Did your organization receive any prize or award, or has it been recognized in any way by its work? YES-
a) We were a finalist on the Prêmio Cultura Viva (Prize Alive Culture) {for the use of Best Practices, Created by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture and with cooperation of the CENPEC (Center of Studies and Research in Education, Culture and Communitarian Action), the Prize Alive Culture favors the knowledge, the mapping and the dissemination of the cultural diversity of the country. Beyond the recognition of Best Practices, the winners also endow the country with modern and democratic instruments in cultural politics. Projects are entered in a data base with systemic information, including a wealth of methodologies, resources, solutions and an unknown panorama of the Brazilian cultural cartography. A legacy that future editions of the prize will be able to bring up to date and to extend. b) Prize SECULT of Stimulaton of Circus 2007, c) Chosen for the Banco do Nordeste - BNB of Culture 2007experiênces, d) Circo Escola project in EcoCitizenship has been chosen as one of Brasil’s ‘Ponto de Cultura’ (on the map of important cultural points in Brazil) by the Minister or Culture. e) Our project – ‘Projeto Integrado de Liberdade Assistida’ (Project Integrating Children in trouble with the Law- keeps them out of jail and gets them into social projects where they excel) was chosen for support by the HSBC bank funding of HSBC Solidariedade. f) Receieved the proclamation of the Secretariat of Work and Social Development
4. Is there any specific need that you would like to include on the Global Giving website? Yes. We still need to raise the money for the roof of the new headquarters. We have built the entire structure except for the roof. This need is an emergency, because we are in the rainy season and this may compromise the built structure.
5. Do you have any stories of success or has your project appeared in the media or do you have current videos of your work?
Yes, through autonomous medias, TV Verde Vale (Local Channel) and radio interviews.
a) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=LTtInJWVyr8 – Youth from the project travel to see Cirque du soleil (great video) b) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=dU-DQwLGzQ8 – WORKSHOP PART 1 - Images of a weeklong workshop teaching the youth to be social educators- they are creating their Wiki, learning on the trampoline, learning video production, and holding workshops on citizenship & Public Policy c) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4btoRa-UPE - WORKSHOP_ PART 2 d) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=6an271TT5Lk – Television news report on on the new headquarters under construction e) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=imtAb9mCo7U – Opening new space for the Atelier Solidario (Solidarity Studio) where they learn crafts and artesan skills and marketing and sell their products in the market f) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=0--EDW6lhOU – Television news report about project computers making art. g) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=wNglZ-tyTjA – TV News report about the Trampoline Workshop h) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=i_GOc0D_DRs – Construction of the Juriti School of Eco-Citizenship (set to specially made Rap song) i) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=M2IL9bqJq0k – Testimonial about Juriti j) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=RMAm7UdpMe4 – 2nd Testimonial about Juriti k) http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBOZjmL_h0 – Recycling paper
6. Please include any additional information about your project that can be interesting or important for the visitors of “Global Giving”.
‘We are building the first social circus center in Brasil in a circus shape, it is the second one in the world.’
7. If your project received any donation from “Global Giving”, through Dreams Can Be, could you give us some examples of how this money helped the project?
Those resources helped to build a beauty parlor for the families that make up the project with youth in situations of involvement with the penal system. Their mothers who were often teenage mothers and battered wives learn skills that they can use to support their family and the project includes the children and their mothers. Also, the Global Giving community helped us with the opening of a store in a tourist area near the project that allows the project Atelier Solidário (Solidarity Studio) to sell their crafts to tourists. The store is called: ‘Colina do Horto’ and has as the slogan: Take memories from Juazeiro do Norte and leave citizenship.
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By Joshua Reed | Intern Dreams Can Be
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