page_title: CEIFAR
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: CEIFAR / History
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a picture of the Tancredo Neves neighborhood in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The picture is taken through the fence at CEIFAR, a community project in the neighborhood. This is one of the many "Favelas" or "shanty towns" in Salvador.
context_page_description: is a non-profit community project in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in the neighborhood of Tancredo Neves. Its purpose is to better the community through education, counseling, activities and health care.
context_section_description: Simonne Alice Debouk, a Belgian Nurse, came to Brazil in 1993 to work with adults and young adults in education and family planning.  She began in the neighborhood of Trancredo Neves with family visits to promote family planning, playful-educational activities, and teaching families in the community about sexuality and improving their living conditions.  
  CEIFAR was founded by Simonne in 1994 with help from friends in Luxembourg and Belgium. Working in the community, it became apparent that the lack of family planning was only one of the problems the community faced.  The public education system struggled to give the children the education they needed to pull themselves out of poverty.  In 1995 CEIFAR started a program of complimentary education through art, culture, and sport activities.  Accessible healthcare was also a big concern for Simonne and the people in the community.  In 2002 CEIFAR started a center for health on the CEIFAR site.  The health center provides doctors visits, dental and orthodonture work at low cost to the people in the community.  In 2005 they began a program of education for children of 3 to 6 years old and now have activities and classes for children of all ages.
caption: Tancredo Neves.  Picture taken through the fence at CEIFAR.
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