Direct aid and education to end extreme poverty in the Northeast area of Brazil.
Projeto 100% is a small movement of people helping families trapped in poverty for generations in the Northeast area of Brazil so their children can get what they need to lead a productive and fulfilling life.
The sources of poverty are multidimensional. So are the solutions. (…) The task of ending extreme poverty is a collective one–for you as well as for me. The end of poverty will require a global network of cooperation among people who have never met and who do not necessarily trust one another. (The End of Poverty by Jeffrey D. Sachs – Time.com, Mar 2005)
Here’s our pledge:
1) 100% of your donations go directly to projects benefiting families living below the poverty level in Brazil.
2) You decide how you want to invest your donations.
3) Complete transparency.
4) Respect for the culture and beliefs of the assisted families.
What’s happening
In 2011 we are focusing our initiatives on beautiful Olinda, a city with serious poverty issues.
AELTEC (a local charity in Olinda) develops a series of projects to bring underprivileged adolescents to work, prevent violence against young children, etc. In 2010, for lack of resources they had to close a reading space that served 30 children from very poor families.
The children help prepare the reading space in Olinda
Among other activities, in February Projeto 100% started sending money to the project to ensure the presence of a supervisor in the reading space so the kids will have a safe place to study and develop their cognitive skills after school (which ends at noon).
Right now we are also collecting donations to support the Digital Inclusion project in Olinda — a project that had to be interrupted last year for lack of funds, and will allow children and adolescents to become computer literate and acquire new skills so they can build a better future for their families.
Updates about this initiative
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Fortaleza
From October 2010 to January 2011, Projeto 100% assisted 4 families in Caranguejo Tabaiares, a poor neighborhood in Recife. Beds for children who slept on the floor, books from the best authors, educational toys have been purchased to be distributed to the 18 children of these 4 families and to be shared in the community library. Now the project continues locally, under the responsibility of the Biblioteca Comunitária Caranguejo Tabaiares.
Story time at the Caranguejo Tabaiares community library
P100% was founded in July 2010 by Adriana Beal, who donates monthly and is also the responsible for coordinating the work of all volunteers and creating regular reports for other donors and sponsors on how their money is being used.
