A TIM and the Institute Gerando Falces announced the NGOs that will benefit from the R$1 million budget from the ‘Strengthening Networks’ notice. The initiative celebrates a decade of activity by Instituto TIM and seeks to enhance the work of social leaders who work to bring dignity and opportunities to residents of communities and favelas across Brazil.
Organizations that belong to the Gerando Falces network, which operates in more than 5 thousand communities in the country, were able to participate in the competition. The focus was on projects linked to culture, sport, leisure and education for children and young people, as a form of encouragement for this audience, but also covering adult residents of each territory. There were more than 200 registrations, with proposals evaluated by technical capacity, impact potential, mobilization capacity and digital inclusion, innovation and technology. Among the beneficiaries are NGOs from Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Cear, Rio Grande do Norte and Maranho.
The TIM Institute’s announcement with Gerando Falces is another chapter in our mission to enhance innovative strategies to promote human development in Brazil. Joining forces in a common vision is the way to promote projects that imagine the possibilities of a new future, comments Mario Girasole, president of Instituto TIM.
With the support for these new actions, Instituto TIM further expands its network of beneficiaries, which in 10 years has reached more than 700 thousand citizens in around 500 municipalities across Brazil. Girasole highlights the importance of strengthening alliances to drive effective change.
One of our objectives with this successful partnership is to transform the lives of favela residents and empower them, highlighting the strength that exists within each territory, encouraging, from children to adults, their full potential and opportunities that will be generated through this type of initiative. , adds Edu Lyra, founder and CEO of Gerando Falces.
Check out the ten NGOs that won the ‘Strengthening Networks’ notice:
- Learn Culture Institute (ES)
It works to train children and young people with a focus on education, culture, sport, productive and digital inclusion, with projects such as training in media, music and audiovisual, fashion and peripheral art. Grants access to softwares to insert young apprentices into the job market.
It serves 120 children and adolescents (and their families). It works in socio-emotional education, literacy and literacy, digital inclusion and leadership, among others, with problem solving, use of tabletscell phones and virtual reality glasses, in addition to robotics workshops.
It serves 432 people through 21 projects. It has a computer laboratory to carry out multimedia expository activities, as well as workshops for using tools such as the Office package, YouTube, Canva, email and Google tools.
It serves more than a thousand families annually. Develops arts projects (ballet, folk dance, gypsy, marching band and theater), sports (judo and kenjutsu), citizenship workshops, professional training workshops for women (audiovisual, IT and sewing) and educational workshops (literacy, reading and resources games using technology).
It serves 990 people with classes in capoeira, afro dance, ballet, popular culture, circus arts, drawing and professional and socio-emotional programs. He created the ‘Rede de Bambas’, which trains capoeira groups to act as social organizations in their communities.
- First Internship Institute (CE)
It serves 746 people on four fronts: sport and leisure, education, professionalization and income generation. The ‘Serto Digital’ project aims to be a hub digital aimed at digital and technological inclusion of children and young people from 8 communities, with the creation of a technological hub with computers, tabletsprinters and high-speed internet.
Serves 195 families. It operates on four fronts: rescuing, preserving and disseminating popular memory; contact with new technologies, such as accessibility for people with disabilities; access to basic rights through food collection and distribution and community activity; and training women to generate income and entrepreneurship.
- Freixeiras Community Development Union (CE)
Serves 497 people in strengthening and reducing social inequalities in the rural area of the municipality, through the distribution of food and personal hygiene products, holding conversation circles with teenagers, training CSO and fundraising; in addition to training women in the production of jellies, pulps and jams.
- Instituto Educa Mais Esporte (CE)
It carries out sports, educational projects and productive inclusion actions, such as strengthening socio-emotional, professional and technical skills, in addition to training and granting credit to low-income women. The ‘Transforma-se’ program, for digital inclusion, provides training in IT and programming language for young people.
It works towards social inclusion through sport, with citizenship, environmental education, culture and social assistance activities for children, young people and their families, serving 270 people monthly. Among the programs carried out are computer workshops, development of socio-emotional skills, financial education and social networks for network.
TIM’s partnership with Gerando Falces began just over a year ago, with the agreement to transform Favela Marte, located in the city of So Jos do Rio Preto, in the interior of São Paulo, into the first favela in Brazil fully connected to the 5G through hubs technological. Recently, the operator announced the launch of its first social products: an amount of revenue generated by TIM Black plans will be donated to the institution’s projects that impact more than 5 thousand communities in 25 states. The company has also been conducting an employability project that has already trained 32 people in telecommunications sales. Of these, eight have already been hired to work in TIM stores, and new groups will soon be launched.
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