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From investments from other countries to a solidary exchange, Ramacrisna relies on international collaboration to maintain its activities.
In 2022 alone, the Ramacrisna Institute carried out 104,170 services that improved the lives of thousands of people in 13 cities in Greater Belo Horizonte. These numbers are only possible thanks to the collaboration of companies and other Civil Society Organizations.
Whether through donations, financing projects or even exchanging knowledge with the Institute’s students, the Institute has this support every year.
Next, get to know Globalized Solidarity, an international collaboration in an exchange format. The project was suspended due to the pandemic, but was resumed in the second half of 2023.
The Globalized Solidarity project consists of an exchange of professors and students from Liverpool Hope University in Betim, where Ramacrisna’s headquarters are located. Every year, the English group visits the site, working directly with students, teachers and the community.
In addition, the initiative, called Global Hope outside Brazil, is fully funded by the university and its students, who often raise money to pay for the trips. At Ramacrisna, exchange students receive food and housing inside the headquarters.
The partnership began in 2004 and, today, the Institute is the only Brazilian organization to participate in the project. And among the beneficiary nations, only the country speaks Portuguese.
With children, activities are playful, fun and engaging. The result is a constant exchange of cultures, languages and international collaboration between university staff and residents of rural Betim. These are intense days of learning and cultural exchanges for everyone involved.
As for the students, in addition to the opportunity to do good, learn a new language and discover a new world, participation in the project is part of an award called the Service and Leadership Award (SALA), with several tasks required of competitors. To participate in the Globalized Society, the student must be enrolled in the award and already be involved with the university and the local community.
Outside the exchange period, the university, which has more than 160 years of history, organizes trips, trains students and supervises the projects in which its academic team takes part. The idea of Globalized Solidarity is to form responsible citizens, with a global vision, and capable of implementing changes that the world needs.
For Ramacrisna, the international collaboration also wants to form responsible citizens. But it is focused on offering new opportunities to children who, many times, would not have contact with other cultures if it weren’t for the project.
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The Liverpool Hope University entourage arrived at Ramacrisna on the 1st of August. In all, there will be 27 days of exchange, in which the group will develop artistic, sports and educational activities with students from different centers of the Institute, such as the Ramacrisna Educational Support Center – CAER, Ramacrisna Young Philharmonic Orchestra and FabLab (Fabrication Laboratory) , for example.
Participating in the project this year will be professors Rebekah Okpoti, from the Department of Music; Melissa Grindon, Student Development and Employability Department; Jamie Lingwood, Department of Psychology; students Joanna Holland, from Music and Psychology; Alexandra Hales, from Drama and Theater; Georgie Bennigsen, from Drama and Theater and Nicole Carvalho, from Geography and Psychology.
Ramacrisna is a non-profit institution that, for more than 60 years, has been developing projects in the area of leisure, culture, professional and learning courses for children, adolescents and adults in social vulnerability in 13 cities in the Metropolitan Region.
In all, almost 2 million people have already had their lives transformed by our projects. You can contribute to improving the lives of many people. Discover our work and make your donation.
