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general information
selected projects 2007
selected rural education projects 2007
finalists 2007
selected projects 2006
selected projects 2005
selected projects 2004
selected projects 2003
selected projects 2002
projects that received donor-advised grants
selection process
guidelines for submitting proposals
guidelines for submitting proposals - rural education projects
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A ESCOLA TEM A COR QUE A GENTE PINTA
(The school has the
color we paint it!) |
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Organization: Cooperativa Escolar da Unidade Municipal Professora Adinalva Miranda Almeida
Comunidade de Itajuru, Jequié, Bahia
To the kids in the County of Jequié, rural area where, beyond the making of crafts and bricks, much of the population counts on federal assistance programs to survive, the project A escola tem a cor que a gente pinta! brings a perspective for social transformation.
The project is based on a proposal to recover the infra-structure of the local school, which will include creating a library, a video library, a children's radio station and a garden. The project aims at promoting a collective and healthy space where environmental issues are approached and discussed, as a theme that touches on all disciplines; thus, preparing the kids to think for themselves, especially about their responsibilities to their communities and society as a whole. To this end, the project counts on the teachers building a pedagogical proposal, and opens channels of communication with parents and the larger community for their involvement as well.
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ACORDA SÃO JOÃO
(Wake Up São João) |
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Organization: NEAPE - Núcleo de Estudos e Apoio a Políticas Educacionais
São João da Serra, Piauí
Despite being located near Teresina, the capital of the northeastern state of Piauí, São João da Serra seems to be a world apart: isolated by duty roads, the major source of income in this small rural town is administrative government jobs, which stop during the dry season; the only option to local families is small scale agriculture. Their children, enrolled in one of two schools that serve three communities in the region, suffer from inadequate infra-structure: there are not enough desks, there is no lunch for the kids, the rooms do not have any windows, and the bathroom consists of a small room with a hole in the floor, lacking any sewage system.
To address these urgent conditions, the project Acorda São João will partner with the local community to improve the infra-structure of the schools, which will include building a library and installing computer stations, and to build capacity of teachers and community leaders in managing the schools. Acorda São João, a project proposed by the Núcleo de Estudos e Apoio a Políticas Educacionais (NEAPE) - a non-profit organization dedicated to capacity building and technical support for educational initiatives - will allow that the 40 students who attend these two schools in São João da Serra have access to a worthy education and a promising future.
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COMUNIDADE ESCOLAR E ESCOLAS RURAIS: O ELO ENTRE O CONHECIMENTO, A APRENDIZAGEM E A GESTÃO
(Educational Community and Rural Schools) |
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Organization: Associação de Apoio a Políticas Públicas de Melhoria de Qualidade de Vida e Convivência com a Seca, Meio Ambiente e Verticalização da Produção Familiar
Remígio, Paraíba
Much of the county of Remígio, in the state of Paraíba, is organized in rural settlements that appeared after a long process of land desapropriation in the region throughout the 1980´s. This territory, despite effective mobilization of its people who count with legitimate and solid community representation and popular participation, has a huge challenge in the current situation of the schools: inadequate infra-structure and equipment, unprepared teachers and unqualified school managers.
The population in the settlements mobilized to intervene directly in the school spaces through the project Comunidade Escolar e Escolas Rurais: o elo entre o conhecimento, a aprendizagem e a gestão, which will serve four communities, benefiting directly 248 students and 15 teachers and, indirectly, 288 families. This proposal, which includes improving infra-structure, building a library and acquiring new media equipment, has its focus on integrating the schools through interchanging of common tools and extracurricular activities, aiming at building an intercommunity forum.
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ESTUDANTE COOPERATIVO
(Cooperative Student) |
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Organization: Instituto Coração de Estudante
Pentecoste, Ceará
The young people of Pentecoste County, in the state of Ceará, did not think it was possible for any of them to get into university. So when resident Manoel Andrade got into the well-known state university Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), they labeled him a genius.
In the beginning of the 90´s, Manoel, who had already become a university professor at UFC, decided to show the young people in his community that they too could get a bachelor degree. He tried a pedagogical method founded on a principle of cooperation to train five youngsters from the community to get into college.
Today, nearly 800 students from over 50 communities in the region participate in a program ran by the Coração de Estudante Institute that includes study groups and tutoring training. The program counts on young people returning to their communities after college to help prepare new students in entering university and to develop social and economic projects locally. More than 100 young people from these communities have since entered university, 90% of whom have returned to help. Part of the proven success of this program comes from a strong sense of entrepreneurship of the young people and their involvement in and commitment to their native community.
Building on the success of this program, the project Estudante Cooperativo hopes to build the capacity of teachers in 28 elementary and high-schools in Pentecoste so they can develop and apply teaching techniques based on the principles of cooperativism, initially developed by Manoel, and of social entrepreneurship and civic engagement inside classes. The project, along with the County Office of Education, will offer support and technical assistance to teachers implementing these methods in schools.
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INTERFACES COM A ESCOLA RURAL PARA UM MAIOR DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANO
(Interfacing with the Rural School for a More Human Development) |
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Organization: Fundação Mussambê
Crato, Ceará
Some residents from Campo Alegre district, in the County of Crato, have preferred that their children travel in the back of a truck, with no adequate safety equipment, to far away schools than attend class in the local school. They were fed up by the inappropriate conditions of the local school, Escola Municipal Artemise Linhares, which does not offer their kids a space conducive for learning: classrooms have no ventilation, electric installations are not maintained and there is not enough equipment.
The project Interfaces com a Escola Rural para um Maior Desenvolvimento Humano proposes the revitalization of the school through a reform in the physical space, including reforming the bathrooms, installing a library, reading rooms and mini science labs, and creating a garden. The project also will include building the capacity of teachers in applying pedagogical methodology and supporting the community in creating a school Council. With this proposal, the Mussambê Foundation hopes that the students from the community return to their local school thus maintaining ties with the reality and vocations of their own community.
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SEMENTES DO AMANHÃ
(Seeds of Tomorrow) |
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Organization: Central Estatal das Associações dos Assentados e de Pequenos Agricultores de Alagoas - CEAPA
União dos Palmares, Alagoas
Over 40% of the population in the state of Alagoas live in rural areas - about 50% of these folks are illiterate. The county of União dos Palmares reflects this trend. Inadequate educational spaces of difficult access are partly to blame; they do not encourage the process of learning. Some students, for instance, walk part of the way to their schools on foot in dirty roads in bad conditions that cut through sugar-cane plantations. In one of the schools, because of the lack of a lunch room, another problem, the kids eat standing up as they hold their plates in their hands.
The project Sementes do Amanhã aims at improving structures, including better utilization of the space and creation of cultural spaces and areas for reading, involving the community in the participative administration of the schools and training 18 teachers from five schools, all located in rural settlements. The proposal will benefit 369 students and is contextualized in a work of re-appropriation and valorization of the rural life experience.
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TEIA EDUCATIVA: JENIPAPO
(Web of Education) |
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Organization: Centro Integrado de Estudos e Programas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável CIEDS
Aracaju, Sergipe
A proposal of the Centro Integrado de Estudos e Programas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CIEDS) will benefit the 1287 children and youngsters from two schools in the rural community of Jenipapo, in the city of Lagarto, whose families live off of small scale tobacco production and subsistence agriculture. The rate of illiteracy in this city is 32,5% among youngsters at age 15. The project Teia Educativa, which aims at reducing this index, includes training 93 professionals in the field of education and stimulating the habit of reading and writing as a way of strengthening the role of the school library in the lives of the children and the role of the students as agents for disseminating the habit of reading. The project also hopes to involve the school community in a process of popular participation and valuing local culture.
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CONSTRUINDO E CRESCENDO COM A LEITURA
(Building and
Growing with the
Habit of Reading) |
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Organization: Conselho Escolar da escola de Ensino Fundamental Teodoro Conrado as Silveira
Redenção, Ceará
The community of 800 people in Sítio Canadá, in the county of Redenção, Ceará, has only one school: A Escola de Ensino Fundamental Conrado da Silveira. The recently formed school Council, which has active participation of the community, mobilized to solve a persistent problem: high failure rate of students in general, worsened by low performance in a discipline as critical as Portuguese.
The project Construindo e Crescendo com a Leitura consists in building a library containing equipments and tools for stimulating reading among students and teachers. The school teachers will be trained in applying teaching methodology that utilizes library resources integrated into the school routine of students. In order to attract the larger community to the school library, there will be activities and pedagogical workshops.
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FORMAÇÃO PARA PROFESSORES DE ESCOLAS RURAIS - FORTALECENDO A EDUCAÇÃO DO CAMPO
(Forming Teachers in Rural Schools - Strengthening Rural Education) |
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Organization: Associação SEDUP Serviço de Educação Popular
Guarabira, Paraíba
The seven thousand inhabitants of Pilões County, who only recently had that first paved road built, face one of the lowest educational indicators in all of Paraíba state, according to the Human Development Index (HDI-E). The challenges with the education in Pilões go beyond difficult access and precarious installations; they encompass uninteresting pedagogical methodology and extremely centralized educational administration.
That is why the SEDUP Association is mobilizing, through the project Formação para Professores de Escolas Rurais: Fortalecendo a Educação do Campo, to reach 13 schools in the county, most of which are located in rural settlements. The proposal includes articulating and training teachers, school directors and other school personnel in the construction and application of a new, more effective school administration and more engaging methodologies.
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O SISTEMA DA ESCRITA
(The Writing System) |
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Organization: Associação Biblioteca Comunitária Maria das Neves
Nova Source, Povoado de São José do Paiaiá, Bahia
Born in a small town of 800 people in the County of Nova Soure, in the state of Bahia, the Community Library of São João do Paiaiá contradicts what low social indicators point to in similar towns across the semi-arid. The library has become a cultural and educational reference, with over 45 thousand titles read by more than 2 thousand visitors every year, many from universities in the capital Salvador and other far-away regions. It has catalyzed community support for its keeping and, through its classes and other services, has attracted local youngsters who otherwise would migrate to the urban areas in search for better opportunities.
According to a methodology of valuing rural needs and knowledge, O Sistema da Escrita, a project of the Community Library, hopes to stimulate the practice of reading, of writing, and to facilitate access to information technology by building the capacity of 60 teachers and 3686 students from 40 rural schools throughout Nova Soure. The Community Library, with this proposal, will impact directly 55% of the population of the county, which is based in rural areas, and, thus, multiply its potential for positive change.
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