Anti-racist education for a violence-free future

Need

To create a safe space to address the main vulnerabilities children and adolescents experience in the region. Children do not have access to adequate health or education services, fall behind in their schooling and do not recognize their racial identity, while adolescents live without positive options, between the violence of drug-trafficking and police brutality. This deprives the children of many aspects of healthy development and exposes the adolescents to black genocide.

Long term impact

90 children will learn about their ancestry, feel happy and proud of their origins, get the best out of their education and grow up to resist racial violence. More than 1000 adolescents will access the history of black artists and personalities, reclaim their self-esteem and develop resilience. They will understand their rights and have the tools and information to access arenas for protection and denunciation. Young community leaders will start to apply tools to transform their community.

About the Organization

Associacao Viva a Vida's mission is the empowerment of adolescents and young people within a context of social risk so that they can make healthy choices and develop self-esteem, autonomy and control over their lives; the work focuses on educational, artistic, cultural, socio-environmental, sport and leisure activities, and community mobilization for the prevention of drug abuse, to combat violence and guarantee Human Rights.

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