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ARTICLES Mutirum
NGO: generating Lula
on new brazilian government Eight years ago, Hans Ulrich Koch, a german citizen founded the Music School of Rocinha. Rocinha is one of the biggest slums on Rio de Janeiro. This school has formed already almost 300 children and teenagers On October 12 was Brazilian Children Day, which means a lot of children waiting for receiving gifts and toys!!! But, in a society that has a great social gap, at same time that we have children that receive gifts, there are children that canīt even stop to work, just for feed themselves. Do
you know brazilian flag and its meaning? Know a little about brazilian national symbol, its story and meaning. You can too download an official one. Results
on Elections: Lula won On this sunday 27 we finally had results on brazilian elections. Results were: Lula, 61,3% and his opponent, the actual govern candidate, Serra, with 38,7%. Letīs know a few about Lulaīs history? Exhibition
shows ten animations for children done by brazilian drawers Ten animations made by brazilian drawers specially for kids can be seen on "Digital Brazil for Kids". Let´s see one of it? "Sambaquis":
in Brazil, an archeological Let´s hear about a story that begins 6.000 years ago. It´s name is "How to make a mountain" and the name of the mountain is "Sambaqui". Do you know what is it? Free download of beautiful pictures on brazilian nature and landscape! Well,
all we know that there are many things to do to make the world better,
there isn´t? Many children saw that and decided to act. Internet
brought to these children a tool to talk about their ideas, get support
and contacts to help people on many different ways. Ok, turn on the radio: there are a lot of songs that sounds cool for children. But what about a selection of beautiful songs reflecting the special character of 26 regions from Brazil, each one with his own and very unusual style? This the beautiful work done on "Brazil Songs", a CD done by brazilian record "Singing Word" (Palavra Cantada) from two Sao Paulo musicians, Sandra Peres and Paulo Tatit. "City
of God" - a brazilian movie A
great movie has recently been released in Brazil: "City of God" (Cidade
de Deus). inside a fiction, the movie shows a lot about real life
of brazilian poor teens, inside a slum that really exists, City of
God, inside Rio de Janeiro. Schools
friendship helps on Brazilian Northeast The friendship between kids of Manoel Martins de Souza School, on the distant village of Arneiroz, on Ceara, and kids of Apolo XII school, on Rio shows that are no limits for helping who needs. Jaqueline
Silva was one of greatest stars of brazilian volleyball selection,
golden medal on beach volley on Atlanta Olympic Games on 1996. Now
she developed a project with children between 8 e 16 years old from
Rocinha slum. A
childrenīs look over the world Open your eyes, look around and klick! A world project has chosen 500 children from 43 countries of the world to register their day-by-day on photos. Aalya Berzougui, a 15 year old girl from Marrocos, is one of them. She never travelled anywhere, but she expects to show for other youngers and children how her people live. "I wanna take pictures from our oásis, from the birds and people" says. Maybe
is hard to believe that at somewhere there are families that must
decide between feed themselves or send a son or daughter to school.
But it happens.
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