In 2015, when Rede Cidadã was already working for 13 years on job placement and income generation for the most vulnerable in Brazil, the United Nations launched the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Among them, the one SDG we feels represents our purpose and mission since we started in 2002, is number 10 - Reducing inequalities.
By reducing inequalities of access to education, training, income generation and job placement, Rede brings life changing opportunities for the most in need. And the inclusion of diversity is a very important way to decrease inequalities. In May the whole world celebrated the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia and we heard from our staff, beneficiaries and partner companies how important it is to include and embrasse people from different sexual orientation and/or gender.
As Douglas, a young gay man working as an apprentice through Rede Cidadã Aprenticeship Program said, "It’s very important that we have opportunities to show there’s diversity at work and in the world, and in the end, we are all equal. It’s necessary to show people that differences exist, and that respect must prevail."
And in a digital world, one of the best ways to reduce inequalities is granting IT access to the ones who do not have the means. In the first semester of 2023, we were able to implement a new program to renew and build computer/IT labs to grant access to this digital world to our beneficiaries. We have just finished to implement four new labs in Nova Lima and Sete Lagoas in the state of Minas Gerais, Recife in the statet of Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro in the state of Rio de Janeiro. With those labs we will be able to increase access to hundreds of young people looking for jobs. By accessing the digital world, we support youth with their training and job search, as well as school homework, family related issues, and important information and content.
All this is only possible because of the support of people and companies who, like you, believe in our work to give ooportunities and transform lives. Rede Cidadã is very lucky to have people and companies who share the same view of reducing inequalities.
We invite you to read our latest newsletter on the importance of including people from the LGBTQIAP+ community, as well as to visit our website to learn more about our programs and projects and to meet our partners.
Thank you for your support!
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It’s with great joy that we bring to our donors the start of implementation of the User and Family Development Track in 2023. Throughout our 20 years of experience supporting people in social vulnerability to enter and remain the labor market, we learned and will train people with the goal of achieving their autonomy, to fight hunger and poverty.
The User and Family Development Track is the result of an atentive listening process and trials with differente groups of beneficiaries(apprentices, interns, young people in compliance with socioeducational measures, homeless people, elderly, LGBT+, people with disabilities and all vulnerable audiences we have worked with during these 20 years. And one of the main learnings about achieving autonomy and success in generating income, is that we need to involve and embrace their families through the process.
But we can only achieve this with a diversity of partners and resources to create strong alliances in each city where we are present. By joining public authorities, companies, civil society and individuals like you, the whole society can do part of the development of people for life and work.
I invite you to read from our beneficiaries and partners voices to feel what we can do together.
Enjoy the reading of our latest Connection and I hope to see your donation soon!
Best,
Adriana Boscov
Relationship, Partnership and Fundraising Manager
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Dear Donor,
Rede Cidadã would like to thank and challenge you as we enter a new year.
Please see our messages fro m Fernando Alves, Rede Cidadã Executive Director and Adriana Boscov, Relationship, Partnership and Fundraising Manager.
Looking forwrad to receiving your donation and support in 2023.
Best,
Rede Cidadã Team
Message from Fernando Alves, Executive Director
While I work here, at the headquarters of the Rede Cidadã, it came to my mind that in 2023 I will challenge many people. I keep thinking that we should have two economic practices in life: one is to always save a part of our income. It doesn't matter how much you can save. If one month you can save $1, you will deposit it in an account and save $1. If the next month you can deposit $100.00, then save $100.00. But in every month of our life, you should save some money.
And a second good transforming practice is that we can also donate a part of our income. If we think that we can save a little and donate a little, we will change our lives and the society in which we live. Just to give an example: if Rede Cidadã had today one million people, just one million people donating R$1.00 to its programs and projects, we would change the speed of training and employability of young people from the base of the pyramid.
That is why I invite you to think about it: save a little, donate a little.
Sending you the best wishes for this holiday and that on 2023 we can all save and donate more!
Message from Adriana Boscov, Relationship, Partnership and Fundraising Manager
2022 comes to an end as a milestone in the culture of giving at Rede Cidadã. We had the best result in the history of the organization, thanks to people who bet on our proposals for the integral development of young people, the elderly, people with disabilities, LGBTQIAPN+ and several other vulnerable groups.
We understand that there is nothing more beneficial to a person than having autonomy, and this is what we offer to those who participate in our programs and projects: personal and professional development that helps them walk on their own two feet.
Through monthly and occasional donations, we reached a total of USD 10,500 in 2022 (donations made until 20th of December). A record of donations for our organization! These funds, together with equipment received from partner companies, will be invested in computer labs in several cities where Rede Cidadã operates, starting with Lagoa da Prata (MG), Recife (PE), and Rio de Janeiro (RJ) to expand the services to people in vulnerable situations.
Thus, we enter 2023 very excited with the good prospects of expanding the frontiers of service to the people who most need support in our society.
And for this, we are counting on you! Donate, spread the word, mobilize, be a volunteer... in short: be part of this Network of solidary love and life transformation.
Wishing you all Happy Holidays and that 2023 brings more opportunities for life transformation in partnership with you!
Dear Donor,
This month we bring to you the voices of people living our work. We will start with a message from our Executive Director Fernando Alves followed by the testimonial of our beneficiaries Marlene Scavarelli from São Paulo and James Andrade from Recife.
We hope their words and stories fill your heart with joy, because you, as a donor, is part of making all of this possible.
Thank you so much for your donation and enjoy the reading.
Best,
Adriana
Executive Director's Word
Rede Cidadã believes in active citizenship. In citizens who want to build a better world and effectively participate in its development. Voluntary work, financial donations, even of small amounts on a recurring basis, express the strength of citizenship and the high impact they have on transforming the social reality of those who need it most.
Upon completing 20 years and the mark of more than 105 thousand people, among youth, adults, seniors, people with disabilities and homeless people trained and placed in the labor market, Rede Cidadã reached a credibility capable of engaging people who support our social work to achieve over 100 thousand more people in the next decade.
And through our GlobalGiving Report, we thank you as a citizen donor in this great citizenship network.
Fernando Alves
Executive Director
And there is no better recommendation to receive than one coming from someone who knows you and your work from experience, right? That's why we are proud to share here the testimony of Marlene, who is part of our Apprenticeship Program and decided to become a donor to Rede Cidadã!
"I became a recurring donor to Rede Cidadã’s projects and I do it with great joy and with a willingness to help, because Rede Cidadã is a fantastic social organization that gives young people, the elderly and the disabled (that´s me), job opportunities.
I am elderly and have a hearing impairment. I have in Rede Cidadã a reference of seriousness and good educators. My educator is Douglas Eliakim, an excellent person, and a fantastic educator. Gabriel, the project coordinator, is also an extremely polite person and an incredible collaborator. In fact, there isn’t one person from Rede Cidadã who does not deserve praise.”
Marlene Scaravelli, 72 years old, hearing impaired and apprentice at the company Dasa, in São Paulo (SP), thinks about the work we do with disabled and vulnerable people.
Seeing the impact of our work in the lives of people who go through our programs and projects is what makes it all worth!
Our effort is for more and more people to gain autonomy, to grow, to evolve in their professional and personal lives, and James Andrade's testimony, which you can read here, is a beautiful portrait of that. He started out as a doorman for Accenture and now runs his own IT company in Portugal, where he lives.
"I would like to tell you my story by thanking Rede Cidadã and Accenture for the opportunity gave to me to participate in the program carried in partnership by them.
In 2015, I was the doorman at the building where Accenture was located in Recife (PE), and that's how I got to know the Accenture for the Future program. I was very excited to be a part of it, as I was always looking for a way to enter the world of technology that I saw every day. This course was the perfect opportunity, and it really opened many doors for me!
Today, I live in Portugal and have my own company in the area of education and technology and one of my goals is to be able to contribute to the lives of many young people together with partner companies, to transform their lives through education, as it happened to me."
James Andrade, participant in the Accenture for the Future project in 2015 and now founder and owner of Trusted.
Dear donors,
In Brazil, 2022 started with COVID still in high levels in the first month of the year and we could only see the light at the end of the tunnel by March. Working mostly with young people in vulnerability, Rede Cidadã started to move its online operations to in-person classes, increasing the number of beneficiaries to develop socioemotional skills to face the harsh of unemployment, loss and other emotional and mental stress.
Even with such a hard start, Rede Cidadã is now celebrating a few achievements we would like to share with you:
We know all of this would not be possible without our partners and you. Donors like you make a difference in social inclusion of the most vulnerables in Brazil.
If you like what you are reading, share with family and friends to help us achieve our 15.000 youth placed in 2022.
Thank you for your support!
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