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.
Here’s our pledge:
1) 100% of your donations go directly to projects benefiting families living below the poverty level in Brazil.
2) Focus on educational actions with long-term impact on the lives of the assisted families
3) Complete transparency regarding the use of donated resources.
4) Respect for the culture and beliefs of the assisted families.
What’s happening
In 2012 we are starting a Digital Inclusion project that will teach underprivileged children and adolescents how to use a computer and increase their chances of becoming productive adults with well-paying jobs.
We are partnering with an institution in Brasilia, the capital city, which will provide the space for computer sessions that will be held by a volunteer. Children and adolescents of poor families who migrated from the Northeast area in pursue of better opportunities will able to learn how computers work and how to use the Internet to acquire valuable skills for work and life.
We just purchased the first laptop that will be used in this initiative. The laptop has been equipped with Linux and Wikipedia in Portuguese, as well as other educational software. We are now in the process of identifying good books that can be used as part of this training effort. Classes should start in May. More information about this project, including progress metrics, will be shared here.
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2011: Olinda
In 2011 we focused our initiatives on providing opportunities for children to improve their reading and writing skills.
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).
The project became self-sufficient in the beginning of 2012, when we moved to the next challenge.
2010: 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.
