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Associação Raiar do Sol - Shelter for Senior Citizens

Posted May 15, 2009 * Comments(0)

dsc01062On September of 2.007 the Brazil Give Together Team visited for the first time this special place called Associação Raiar do Sol - shelter that accomodates  85 senior citizens who have no one to look after them,  no house of their own and can not afford a place to live.

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Igreja Bom Jesus dos Passos - Dinner for Homeless People

Posted May 15, 2009 * Comments(0)

dsc046762(Sao Paulo, Brazil) In the middle of the fast growing information revolution, time seems to be flying in people’s life. Computer, mobile technology, crowded cities, stressful traffic jams, thousands of passwords to keep in mind,  globalization, tons of incoming insights every minute and many other day-to-day related activities are taking a great part of what we used to call “free time”. Read more »

GOAS - Simba Safari Tour

Posted May 15, 2009 * Comments(0)

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As promised, on April25th Brazil Give Together Team took 35 children in need  from GOAS Institute, the same that participate on the last year’s event - GOAS -  Botanic Garden Tour - to a Tour on Simba Safari Zoo.

Our objective was to reinforce social environmental responsability transmited to them when we visited the Botanic Garden last year and at this time, focusing on animal wildlife. Read more »

GOAS - BOTANIC GARDEN TOUR - Brazil

Posted April 28, 2008 * Comments(0)

On April 26th the Give Together Team (17 participants) took 35 children in need from the GOAS Institution for a tour at the Botanic Garden in Sao Paulo.

Children Arrival Breakfast

The objective of this tour was to offer them recreation since they live on a poor neighborhood where there is no infrastructure at all for them to enjoy their free time. At the same time, we wanted to teach them about social environmental responsibility.

Botanic Garden Entrance Starting the sightseeing

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Associação Raiar do Sol - Shelter for Elder People

Posted September 27, 2007 * Comments(0)

On September15th, the employees from Sabre Brazil visited a very special place called - Associação Raiar do Sol. This is a shelter for elder people that accomodates 85 senior citizens who have no one to look after them, no house of their own and can not afford a place to live.

This private institution suffers with lack of money so, they are always counting on people’s help to maintain the elder people’s quality life. However, what these people need most is care and attention since most of them have no family and are homeless.

The team arrived at 2:00 PM to prepare an afternoon coffee break with cheese sandwiches, beverages and cake, enjoying the time talking and giving attention to them.

Rebeca, one of our colleagues, met Mr. Alberto, a 78 year old man who is blind and felt in love with him. She cut and polished his nails while talking about his favorite subjects: politics and soccer games.

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How hard is to become children again!

Posted September 20, 2007 * Comments(0)
Last Thursday, the Bolivian Sabre team went to the “Sarantañani Home”, a refugee for children between 7 and 17 years. At “Sarantañani” children look for help to abandon drug consumption, alcohol or any other behavior that pushed them to loose their innocence and transformed them into small adults, leaving a live that any of us could ever imagine.
Team
The name “Sarantañani” that in “aymara” dialect means: “let’s come out ahead”, explains the whole concept itself. This home, established 20 years ago in La Paz, assists around 60 male children and teenagers that, due difficult circumstances in their own homes, were forced to leave in the streets. “Sarantañani” offers a “living option” for this children; four free centers where they can come and go whenever they feel to do so, and where they get food, medical assistance, education, technical instruction, legal assistance, etc.

FIRST STEP
Stablish direct contact in the streets between children/teenagers and the “Sarantañani” team
SECOND STEP
Approach to an alternative house, evaluation and detection of abilities and potentialities.
THIRD STEP
Look for a house and build the foundation for a community leaving inside of it.
FOURTH STEP
End of the process achieving a gradual independence of the teenager with the purpose of creating their own “personal live project” within a “Youth Residence”.
As an option for developing special abilities, they get technical instruction in different jobs as: carpentry, mechanical and others that will help them grow and gain economical independence.
Altarpiece
The creation of altarpieces is the mayor activity that stimulates their creativity.
They build:

  1. Wood Altarpieces on clients request
  2. Duplicates of historical facades, churches, monuments, etc.

“Artisan Coffee Sarantañani”
A place where kindness, warmth and quality get together to create an atmosphere that establishes the difference in the market. All this in the hands of young people that belong to the project with a gastronomic education.
Several teenagers have already graduated from the project; they are now labor independent and can maintain their selves.
As soon as we walked in, we decided to focus our help on their entertainment area; a two room’s area with unpainted walls, poorly illuminated. All we found was an old television over an old table, a long stool and some wooden chairs that let them just join together to watch television.
We decided to buy cleaning tools and painting to give a fresher and warm full look. With the help of the ICYE guys, we divided in groups to paint walls, wash floors and furniture, install and accommodate all the new things we brought: a desk with a computer, music equipment, a book shelf, board games, a table and new chairs.
There are not enough words to express the emotion we felt while helping and bringing joy to this kids. They were so involved in the initiative that they took the brushes and brooms to work together.
We spent the whole afternoon giving a little of our time and receiving a bunch of smiles. It was incredible to see the happiness that a little of music, a computer and some board games could bring. For some of them, it was the first time they had the opportunity to play chess, checkers, scrabble and others. We brought them good new reasons for sharing time together and keeping them away from the streets, away from all those bad habit they got since they were very little.

As soon as we walked in, we decided to focus our help on their entertainment area; a two room’s area with unpainted walls, poorly illuminated. All we found was an old television over an old table, a long stool and some wooden chairs that let them just join together to watch television.We decided to buy cleaning tools and painting to give a fresher and warm full look. With the help of the ICYE guys, we divided in groups to paint walls, wash floors and furniture, install and accommodate all the new things we brought: a desk with a computer, music equipment, a book shelf, board games, a table and new chairs.
There are not enough words to express the emotion we felt while helping and bringing joy to this kids. They were so involved in the initiative that they took the brushes and brooms to work together.We spent the whole afternoon giving a little of our time and receiving a bunch of smiles. It was incredible to see the happiness that a little of music, a computer and some board games could bring.
For some of them, it was the first time they had the opportunity to play chess, checkers, scrabble and others. We brought them good new reasons for sharing time together and keeping them away from the streets, away from all those bad habit they got since they were very little.

Rango de Jesus

Posted September 27, 2006 * Comments(0)

On September 15th, 2006, we went to the Church Bom Jesus dos Passos to prepare a delicious dinner for the homeless – the project is called Rango de Jesus (literally Jesus´s Dinner) and it is been delivered to these people for 16 years. In the beginning, they served snacks every Friday night and on Saturdays at lunch, but fortunately the project has grown and now, with the help of volunteers like us, complete meals are served.

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