The Ramacrisna has been dedicated for more than 60 years to welcoming people in situations of social vulnerability, with actions aimed at children. On Children’s Day, learn about some of these actions.
Since 1924, Brazil has celebrated Children’s Day on October 12. The date is known for games, gifts and toys, but it is more than that. Children’s Day seeks to reflect on children’s rights and the reality of Brazilian little ones.
According to a study carried out by Fundação Abrinq, the country has 69.8 million children and adolescents between zero and 19 years of age, representing 33% of the total population.
In the 0 to 14 age group, there are 9.1 million children living in extreme poverty at home, that is, they have a monthly per capita income of less than or equal to a quarter of the minimum wage.
Another 9.7 million children are in poverty, which means a monthly per capita income of more than a quarter to half a minimum wage.
Therefore, civil society organizations are important to provide better conditions for children in social vulnerability. This is the case of Instituto Ramacrisna, which, for over 60 years, has been promoting childcare activities. On this children’s day, get to know some of our projects.
The Professor Arlindo Corrêa da Silva Library has an area of 194 m² and houses a collection of children’s and adult literature with over ten thousand cataloged books. The space serves all students enrolled at Instituto Ramacrisna, employees, the entire community and young people from 13 municipalities in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte.
In addition to making books available, the library has activities such as storytelling and theatrical and musical performances. The space also houses the Ludoteca, with board games that stimulate different skills and competences of readers, in addition to providing moments of socialization and interaction between children.
The library also carries out the Reading Suitcase project. The initiative seeks to encourage reading in institutions that do not have any kind of collection, such as public schools, community day care centers and Basic Health Units, for example.
The Suitcase holds approximately 40 books and becomes an “exhibitor shelf” when it is opened, since most of the institutions served also do not have an adequate space for the exhibition of books. The delivery of the Suitcase is marked by a party, with a story telling, based on books on the shelf. Ramacrisna Educational Support Center (CAER).
The Ramacrisna Educational Support Center (CAER) allows children to participate in several workshops that take place in a period that complements the classes given at the public school. Among the CAER activities are ballet, chess, judo, futsal, society football, shuttlecock and volleyball.
Children are encouraged in literacy and formal education. For this, Ramacrisna uses technologies such as the digital whiteboard and the literacy table.
Students receive lunch and snacks every day, including on vacation. In addition, the Institute provides them with uniforms and school supplies.
The idea is not only to expand knowledge of the world and provide healthy development, but the CAER also helps to reduce truancy and child labor. Therefore, children can only participate in activities at Ramacrisna if they are enrolled and attending public school.
Carried out with the sponsorship of Petrobras, the Bulding the Future project serves children as young as three years old. The initiative provides activities for residents of the Imbiruçu, Colônia Santa Isabel and Petrovale neighborhoods, neighboring REGAP, in Betim.
For children still in early childhood, from 3 to 5 years old, playful and fun activities are developed to promote the integration of these little ones in the municipal public school, for when they reach the age of 6 years.
One of the actions is the installation of a reading bag in day care centers, providing storytelling, reading, poetry recitals, dramatizations, short stories and retellings. Other educational toys in the area of mathematics, geometry and colors, for example, are taken to institutions, enriching the children’s experience.
For older children, the project offers sports, dance and cultural activities, such as basketball, football, futsal, volleyball, shuttlecock, capoeira, zumba and ballet.
FabLab is an innovation laboratory created to stimulate creativity and knowledge through practice, turning ideas into reality. The initiative aims to promote the professional qualification of young people and adults and the digital inclusion of children and adolescents, elementary school students from public schools, through learning programming and basic and intermediate knowledge in technology.
With this, Ramacrisna wants to take inclusion, innovation and cutting-edge technology across regional, social and economic boundaries. In the space, classes, courses and activities are taught, such as Net Girls, focused on the inclusion of girls in programming, creation of applications and robotics classes.
In the Checkmate project, in addition to chess activities, students participate in Educational Robotics lessons. The activity helps to encourage the creative side, programming knowledge and logical thinking. In addition, it promotes collaborative work, data sharing and interdisciplinarity.
For more than six decades, Instituto Ramacrisna has been involved in the education of children and young people, offering opportunities and new perspectives in life.
In our projects, we always seek to bring the most modern and technological, to provide this experience for students. In addition, we provide complementary training, with sports and cultural activities, leisure, reading and storytelling.
By taking care of children in socially vulnerable situations, we also help to reduce crime rates in the region and change the fate of children and entire families.
We are giving them more options so they can dream and answer what they want to be when they grow up.
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