Mobile Rede Jovem: SMS for social change in Brazil

First, on behalf of Youth Net Program’s team I want to thank the donors that already helped us and also let you know how happy and glad we are for being part of Global Giving Website, spreading our project news and information over the world! Recently the monitoring team of Mobile Rede Jovem: SMS for Social Changes’ Project effectuated a qualitative research with the young boys and girls benefited on SMS project and here we want to share some nice and fresh news about our project results: One first thing that we’ve been able to find out along the project’s execution was that the reach of the project is much wider than we expected in terms of number of participants as well as in what refers to possible effects and results. This happens as an effect achieved with the act of sharing the received text messages with friends and family, by the youth benefited. With that, we increase the number of beneficiaries, directly and indirectly attended. According to Tatiana O. de Lima, resident of Madureira and participant of Mobile Rede Jovem Project one of the best things on participating of the project and receiving the text messages is being able to share with friends and family, spreading the information. Tatiana, for example, forwards all received information through e-mail and scrap messages of social networks as orkut. In the year of 2008 three benefited youth’s friends succeeded on job interviews and had been hired, after a long period of unemployment after receiving the information sent by SMS on Mobile Rede Jovem Project. Two of those are resident of Alemão Community and 1 lives in Madureira. Please let us know what you think of this update by providing feedback on our comments section!