Living in extreme poverty, excluded from society's rights and benefits, youth transform their reality by using their creative energy, and giving lessons in environmental education and life education. Bagun a o website. In Canabrava, a low-income neighborhood, garbage dumps provided income for deprived children. In 1997, the municipal garbage collecting company set up this social-educational project as an alternative. To help families keep their children in CSEP, it supplies food and a financial allowance.
Methodology is based on strengthening citizenship and self-esteem.
Results have shown a reduction in school dropout rates, and children have better physical and social development and are more participative. Participants live in a situation of poverty, unemployment, loose family bonds, drug abuse and violation of their most basic rights. Through recreational activities, children build self-esteem, reconstruct family bonds and are encouraged to establish long term plans and projects. Methodology is participative. Eug nio first heard about CRIA in 1994.