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From the free English course on the outskirts of savior to a project that maps voluntary garbage delivery points in San Gonzalo (RJ) This Friday the 1st, the Brazilian Conference at Harvard and MIT, an event held annually by the Brazilian community of students in BostonU.S United StatesThey exchanged leaders known in the country for the story of ten young Brazilians who created social impact projects in search of a less unequal Brazil. This year, the event has a partnership with State.
The youth were selected by the Ambassadors program of the Brazilian conference, whose objective is to develop leaders who solve social problems and inspire other young people to promote change in Brazil. Of the ten who participated in this year’s edition, 70% attended high school in a public school and declared themselves black. Videoconference interview with journalist Pedro Bial, each young man told about his life story and the context of the creation of the project.
Born in a neighborhood on the outskirts of Salvador, Vinícius Santos created the WeSpeak social project to allow the teaching of English in communities in Brazil. The passion for education arose after the opportunity to learn the foreign language in a program of the United States Embassy. “I started to want to teach a lot more to break down barriers than just for other people to learn,” he said. Today with more than 300 students and a team of 10 volunteers, the project is present in two neighborhoods in Salvador and one in Itajaí, in Santa Catarina.
Also a resident of a peripheral neighborhood, Vinicius de Andrade created a project to democratize access to information among public school students. Safeguard It is the result of your own life story. First of the family to enter higher education, Vinícius saw in the university the opportunity to have a better quality of life than his parents and sisters.
The experience in two worlds, the periphery and one of the best universities in Latin America, made him question the lack of students from the lower classes at the university. Looking for answers, he applied a questionnaire in his city’s public schools and found that the students had an interest in higher education. What was missing was information. “Of the 193 students who responded, only 13 knew Fuvest. Then I saw that the information is an underrated cut. Whoever has it, forgets when it arrived. Who does not have it, does not even know that it exists.
Safeguard is present in 38 high schools in Ribeirao Preto and in two of Rio de Janeiro. The program helps 20,000 students through 600 volunteers. In addition to excursions on university campuses, the project offers services such as essay correction and simulations, as well as information on the entrance exam schedule.
The student Luma Moura She was also the first in her family to attend higher education. Resident of an unpaved street in São Gonçalo, where there is no garbage collection, he realized the reality in which he lived after starting to study in another city with more infrastructure. “Every time I got home, every day, I felt like I was entering another planet,” said the student. “People did not know it was a right. Nor I.”
With the help of a friend, she mapped out voluntary drop-off points in the city. In an attempt to call these places, he discovered that they were all closed. “We were able to organize ourselves and demand the reopening of these points,” says Luma. So far, one of these points has been reopened. In addition to mapping, the project Collect works with environmental education, developing awareness and mobilization materials through social networks, as well as lesson plans.
They spoke on the panel this Friday Elias Freitas (Pathfinder) and Melchizedek Negrão (Madtech), selected from the northern region; Maria Clara Magalhães (Be.Labs) and Vinicius Santos (WeSpeak social project), from the northeast; Gopen it Valentand (Public Policy Forum for Women) and Izadora Araújo (Restart), from the Midwest region; Luma Moura (Collect) and Vinicius de Andrade (Safeguard), southeast; from the southern region, Matheus Falasco (Meuth Action Hub) and Tassia Jansen (#CreateYourFuture)
Check the program of the Brazil Conference for next week.
Present and future of health in Brazil, 4/5 at 10 a.m.
Interview with the Minister of Health Nelson Teich. Interviewers Fernando Bruno (Harvard Masters) and Juliana Yamada (MIT Masters)
How companies can contribute to society, 4/5, 19h
Artur Grynbaum, Eduardo Mufarej, Fabio Barbosa and moderated by Sonia Favaretto
The pandemic and the ethical dilemmas of Brazilian society, 5/5 at 3 pm
Panel with Mário Sergio Cortella, Silvio Almeida and Viviane Mosé, moderated by Nathalie Gazzaneo (Harvard Masters)
How do we become a reformist state ?, 5/5, 7pm
Rodrigo Maia, Paulo Hartung, Marcos Mendes and moderated by Eliane Cantanhêde
The challenges of the States in crisis, 7/5, 19h
João Doria (SP), Helder Barbalho (PA), Renato Casagrande (ES), Flavio Dino (MA, to be confirmed) and moderated by Andreza Matais
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