By Ana Paula | Coordinator
We are currently serving 43 children, 35 of which are with us full-time and 7 more whose parents have now found work. For the others, while the children in are in the creche the parents can seek work opportunities.
We have, however, instituted new policies where we limit the amount of time that these children can stay if the parents are not employed in order that the parents do not take advantage of our services and to be sure that they are really looking for employment at that time.
We have 25 youth, who are taking reinforcement classes and a hand craft class with recycled materials, three times a week with two women from the community.
We also help 22 families who have children with disabilities or suffer from a chronic disease; with medicine, food, and sometimes transport to the doctor. We acquire these resources through campaigns we hold in different neighborhoods in the region.
Every week we go to two more well off neighborhoods, explain the project and collect food to make the monthly food baskets. Each child has a sponsor who pays for their medicines.
36 of the families receive monthly food baskets and clothes, an organization Rio Voluntário (Rio Vounteers) provides the clothing, and we also have a campaign to receive clothes.
We started working once a week with two women from the community to talk about sex education and birth rate control (one is the mother of a child from the project). The team has started a course in the "health center" to teach these things.
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