The work of Casa de Passagem is sustained by an operative group of educators and program staff ideologically and professionally committed to the aims of the project. More important, however, in the current success of the programs, is the high level of personal and collective effort on the part of the educators in sustaining a daily routine that greatly differs from that of other NGOs working with adolescents. The persistence in giving adolescent girls a voice to speak their desires, emotions and experiences, and The caring to listen, respect and learn from what the girls say. On these principles, the social, psychological and educative reintegration process is developed to perfection and without impediments, with the knowledge that an entire world of emotions, sentiments and ideas is being changed in the girls' psyche. Behavior is changed.
Life is changed.
What is perceived in the discussions with the team and with the educators individually is an impressive sense of responsibility, discipline and commitment to Casa de Passagem programs. This is clearly reflected in the educators' relationships with the girls, in which the key is respect and esteem. Girls' Identity Casa de Passagem works with the poorest sector of the population in the town. Its first aim is to remove the greatest number of girls from this situation of absolute poverty and attempt to prevent community girls from ending up on the streets. In this sense, Casa de Passagem manages to revive in the young women the desire for social integration, and equip and strengthen them for their struggle for citizen's rights, for employment, for dignity in their work, for public health and education services, and for the existence of a real democracy.