Brazil

VILA DAS CANOAS COMMUNITY-BASED TOURISM

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 10:20am

Countries

Brazil

Tags

community-based tourism

Themes

sustainable tourism
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Stakeholders / Promoters: 
he main actors are the inhabitants of Vila das Canoas, who offer room in their houses for the lodging of the tourists. A local group, led by Eneida Santos, organizes this receptive tourism initiative. This project receives support from the Afro-Brazilian Incubator (IA) and from the Gênesis Institute of PUC-RJ. It has also the support for advertising and divulgation from Rio de Janeiro municipal government.
Background/ Context: 
The idea of lodging tourists in the houses of inhabitants of Vila das Canoas led the local community to organize themselves and mobilized them to carry out tourist activities with distinctive characteristics. The objective is to generate income for the community and, at the same time, to make possible the exchange of knowledge and the dialogue with the tourists (100% are foreign). Another goal is to enable the inhabitants to develop a new image of their home place (with an increase of self-esteem). Due to the place’s vicinity to natural attractions: Pedra da Gávea, Pepino beach and Tijuca Forest, this initiative also includes ecotourism activities. It thus helps to increase the community’s conscience about ecological issues.
Case Description: 

The idea is to offer lodging for tourists in the houses of inhabitants of Vila das Canoas community, to show another image of the shantytown, to generate income inside the community and to facilitate the exchange of experience and knowledge, particularly in the area foreign languages learning. This endeavor is community-based tourism initiative located in a shantytown.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

Vila das Canoas community-based receptive tourism initiative fits in the Project for being an endeavor of the community itself that dared to consider to set in their home place a different activity (tourism and lodging in a shantytown). The consequences of the initiative brought benefits to the whole community.

COMMUNITY DAY-CARE MUNDO INFANTIL

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 10:12am

Countries

Brazil

Tags

Day-care center

Themes

education
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Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Responsible and leader: Some women of the community, having as coordinator Adriana Maria da Silva and Marlene Pereira de Castro. Providers: contracted members of the initiative and professionals. Users: The children with families who can, contribute with a monthly fee of R$20,00. Children of families of the community who can’t afford the fee are accepted too. The center currently is without financing or regular aid. Sporadically it receives donations from individuals or private education institutions, as the Corcovado School (food and cleaning material) and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio De Janeiro (capacity building for educators). Also it receives aid from companies as the C&A and other also external agents to the community: Institute Promundo (assistance in project elaboration) and CIESPI - International Center of Studies and Research on Infancy (qualification courses). Connections: the initiative already had support of the government and of FIA (Foundation for Infancy and Adolescence), but currently does not count on the support of any organization.
Background/ Context: 
The day-care center has its origin in the necessity of the families to have a place where to leave their children while they go to work. The initiative begun with a group of five mothers who decided they would leave their children in one house under the guard of other women of the community who did not work out. The children were each day in a house. With the objective to set a day-care center with more infrastructure, in a property destined to this function, these mothers had started to produce and sell snacks, handicrafts, etc. as form of raising capital. With the collected money, and a bank loan, they managed to buy a dedicated house.
Case Description: 

Formed by initiative of Santa Marta community, aiming at take care and to alphabetize the children of the community, giving an accessible alternative for the families so that it became possible for the mothers of these children to have a job, knowing that the children would be safe while they are working.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

The initiative left begun of a group of women in the slum quarter Santa Marta who, were mobilized to construct a day-care center, with the objective to have a place to put their children to be while they were working, improving the daily life not only of them but also of the relatives who helped to take care of the children, of the future mothers of the community, and of the proper children that have conditions for developing more good, or either, this initiative transformed all the community, improving the future perspectives.

COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE UNIT ÁGUA SANTA

Submitted by joonsbaek on Tue, 06/28/2011 - 9:59am

Countries

Brazil

Tags

women, healthcare

Themes

health-care
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Stakeholders / Promoters: 
Promoters: The main leader is Mother Tânia , who has a place where many times the meetings occur, and she organizes the courses of formation of health agents. Alongside her there are diverse women ( communitarian leaders) that work in the community where they live as health agents. Providers: As in this case it is information that is given by the communitarian agents it almost does not have providers or supply material. The little material of information and awareness which is used, beyond condoms is supplied by the NGO CRIOLA. Other people and organisations involved: NGo CRIOLA (Institution that fights for the rights of black women) is the main partner of the health nucleus, it provides material and small financial aid. It also has the support of the ABIA Association that provides the qualification courses of health agents. Users: The women of the community who are instructed, acquire knowledge and mobilized in the health question. Networks: constitution of an integrated health nucleus to other communitarian health nuclei of other quarters.
Background/ Context: 
The nucleus is formed by a net of women who developsr activities of education, awareness and orientation in the area of woman health. They mobilize diverse communities (cabeça de porco, vinte e sete, slum 18,matriz slum, caixa d´água among others) of the Água Santa neighborhood, for the auto-examination and the accomplishment of diagnostic, independently of the public and/or private health service networks, spreading new practical habits for the collective health, mainly in the areas of sexually transmissible diseases, precocious pregnancy and breast cancer.
Case Description: 

 

The support groupworks trough  lectures and meetings of the members of the nucleus and the community, and  visits of the communitarian agents to the houses of the inhabitants of the Água Santa Community. They give clarifications, awareness and self aid in - the diagnostic of illnesses and in health habits.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

The initiative effectively started of a group of people in the ÀguaSanta community, that got tired to wait for some action of the government in the area of the health, and the communities in the neighborhood had to organize themselves to obtain improvement of health to all. The health is a sustainability element that is present in the daily life of all.

Peladeiros

Submitted by joonsbaek on Fri, 06/24/2011 - 12:34am

Countries

Brazil

Tags

soccer, Network, amateur

Themes

cultural activities, neighborhoods
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Peladeiros
Stakeholders / Promoters: 
A private company, soccer lovers
Background/ Context: 
In August 2000, Felipe Nascimento was organizing a game of football when he realized that, overwhelmed by people who want to participate in the game and people who are waiting to watch the game, there must be a better way to do it. So Felipe worked with development of software for Internet, and soon saw that a small effort a few weeks could solve his problem: it is how the first version of Peladeiro was created. At first, few pages were intended only to his group of friends. He and his friends discovered that the new means of control and organization of groups gave them a lot of fun, and even more, that this small site could be a great means of communication, storage of information, games and entertainment. Realizing the success with his group of friends, he decided to devote a little more so that other people could enjoy such a tool. In January 2001 was in the air Peladeiro.com.br.
Case Description: 

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Peladeiros is a web-based tool that helps people organize soccer matches more efficiently. It is basically a database of the profiles of the registered teams and individual players. The data are customizable so that people can manage the rank of teams and individuals and organize soccer matches according to the rank of the players.

Benefits (Social, and environmental benefits): 

•    Social benefits: Although this service was motivated by self-interest to entertain, it also creates opportunities for people to gather, make friends and play together, thus promoting social conviviality through sports.