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:: The
Association
EDUCATIONAL GROUP – MINHOCA
Registration at CNPJ – 04.945.759/0001-06
Temporary address: Av. Cel. Dias Coelho,
56 1º andar sala 01 - Morro do
Chapéu – BA - BRAZIL Cep:
44-850-000
City
Registration
Law nº 672 of March 24, 2003.
State Registration
Law nº 8640 of August 5, 2003.
Projeto Minhoca
Travessa Gabriel Soares, s/n
Pedra Grande – Morro do Chapéu
– BA - BRAZIL
Council
of Directors:
José Mário Oliveira Bispo
Maria Deleusze Brito
Amália Oliveira Gonçalves
Coordination:
Luiz Alberto Pereira Rocha
Iêda Maria R. Chaar
Technical
Group:
Lua Santana – capoeira
Iêda Chaar – ceramics
Luiz Alberto (Beto Rocha) – informatics
Iva Domingues – scholar helper
Edileuza Pereira – scholar helper
Marta Vitoriana – scholar helper
Domingus Paulo – music
Joselma Cézar – art
Lia Santana – support
Irene Rodrigues – support
Joilton Rodrigues - support
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INTRODUCTION
The
Educational Group – Minhoca, is
the association that accomplishes the
Minhoca Project which is located in
Morro do Chapéu, in the Bahia
state of Brazil, acts since 2001 as
a Center for Creativity based on a holistic
proposition of education for children
and young people in need of care.
Based
on this holistic start, the Project
works for a sustainable education taking
art as the main instrument in the learning
process. Art in the Minhoca Project
is considered as a powerful tool which
uses theater, dance, music, capoeira
and plastic arts to open the way to
a complete vision of reality. Art also
precedes the exercise of multi-knowledge,
promoting the learning of the meaning
of things from daily life, taking into
consideration the individual and the
group practices as well as personal
experiences for the education of the
citizen.
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YEAR 2003
Recognized
by the community, visitors, technical
team and by the students themselves
(as seen in the appendix section), the
Minhoca Project had exceptional results
in the year of 2003.
By
focusing on the person as a unique and
whole human being, the Project acts
to reach physical, emotional, intellectual
and spiritual aspects, respecting the
differences, having happiness as the
most important aspect of the knowledge.
Therefore, without any fear of misinterpretation,
the Project based its activities also
on the development of the capacity of
loving. Because the capacity to love
is recognized as a precious field to
flourish the human being. The most important
pedagogical and methodological principle
adopted by the Project was to work the
theory-practice relation, emphasizing
the practice and using the everyday
life as a basic reference for building
knowledge.
This
way, even having to face a hard social
and economical reality of which they
are victims, we have noticed the development
of a critical thinking, an esthetical
creativity and an intuition of the persons
involved. It was therefore possible
to exercise the rights to be children
and to be creative and happy.
It
has been said by a studious biologist
that in order to learn, it is necessary
to get rid of the ideas, presuppositions
and certainties lent by life. In a certain
way, it has been emphasized that artistic
activities ease and stimulate the contact
with sentiment, strengthening the self-esteem,
harmonizing the relationships and allowing
the conclusion that art also provides
a better comprehension of what is being
instructed.
Step
by step, it has become clearer that
the work of the Project is helping to
create a way to provide a deserving
life, a spiritual evolution and fraternal
relationships. Because it takes the
premise that says “To educate
is to educate yourself. To be born again
is to allow a new creation of yourself.
From clay that we come from, to do an
art work.”
We would like to thank and acknowledge
all those who have supported us: Brasiliniciative,
Bairotz Group, Frank Bemerlaine, Ana
Maria Jacobs, Anne, Coordination of
the Coburg Samba Festival, Coordination
of the Noe Detrizal Samba Festival,
AAS Group, CESE and the Nigôlo
Group in Germany, without all of them,
this work would not be true.
Considering the limitations on the translation
and the own characteristic of the educational
proposal as being somehow subjective,
we have reported here only a few aspects
of the most relevant ones. We hope that
the reader can perceive the dynamic
and in some way limited process of this
challenge we call Minhoca Project.
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:: DAILY
ACTIVITIES:
Scholar
Help
Ceramics
Music
Informatics
Arts
Capoeira
Group Moment
MAIN
ACCOMPLISHED ACTIVITIES
Building Reformation
...to improve the environment of the
place and make it more pleasant. The
result was praised by all participants.
Planning and Studying
...essential for the continuation of
the activities during the whole year
of 2003. Contents: Annual Activities
Plan and a Deeper Study on the Educational
Proposition.
Elaboration Contract Co-living
...for the start of their co-living,
the students presented their rules,
rights and duties in a democratic way.
A great deal of compromising was impressive
and the activity lasted for two weeks.
Mother’s
Day Party
...everything was planned and
done by the students themselves,
from the production and making
of presents until the decoration
and realization of the party which
had a 60’s theme. There
were performances of theater,
poetry, dance, music, etc. |
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Mother’s
Day Party
...during
the whole year, once a month, there
was a party for the people with birthdays
in that month. Without this celebration,
many of them would not now it was their
birthdays at that time.
Easter
Activities
...under the feeling of renovation,
the Easter period was an inspiration
for the creation of presents made of
recycled materials, and for the presentation
of dance, music, theatrical plays, etc.
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June Party
...the students organized and
produced everything. They prepared
the place and decorated it mainly
using recycled materials. They
practiced a typical, played popular
games and cooked traditional food
which are typical on the June
parties. There was also a journalistic
event in which the students studied
the origins of the traditional
June parties and reported what
happened in the other schools.
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Trophies
Making
...using ceramics, the children
were invited to make trophies
for the June parties.
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Dance
Classes
...learning to dance, to live
in a group and to share emotions.
This was also a great moment of
relaxation, joy and learning.
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Earth
Environment Week
...lectures about the environment,
artistic presentations and field
activities.
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Journal
Course
...the first steps... how to do a journal?
Why to do it? The INFORMOCA is the cultural
newspaper of the group.
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Friendship
Campaign
...one
of the most gratifying activities.
The competition was for the
cooperation. The tasks could
only be fulfilled if there was
cooperation among all the teams.
It was an excellent exercise
of reflection, giving, care
and friendship that worked as
an alert for the extreme competitive
system imposed by this capitalist
world. The campaign lasted for
two months and included several
cultural and ecological activities
which promoted the critic and
auto-critic and the belief that
there are through cooperation,
the results are much more satisfactory
for everybody.
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for Peace
...march for peace at the start
of the Iraq war. This was an exercise
of reflection, thinking and praying.
In the international day for peace,
everybody in the city participated
in the march with several presentations
of theater, music and other artistic
events.
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Independence Day
...this was a colorful, happy
and educational celebration. The
Project participated in the city
march in celebration for the Brazilian
Independence Day with many artistic
presentations.
The children participated in the
march followed by a song which
says that “we don’t
want only food, we want fun, art
and happiness.”
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Domingueiras
Project
...Domingueiras
is a cultural event with art
exhibitions of local artists.
Twice the Minhoca Project was
invited to participate in this
event in which we presented
art pieces in ceramic and paintings,
everything using recycled materials.
We also presented capoeira,
dance, music and marionette
theater.
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Children’s
Week
...during
the whole week of the celebration
of the Children’s week,
the Project made presentations
of several types of art as well
as capoeira.
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Marionette
Theater
...the marionette theater is a
big success. It plays educative
themes such as Ecology, Folklore,
etc. They are presented in schools
and in other events in the community.
These plays were performed by
the students and teachers and
involved the making of the marionettes
using recycled material.
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Tour
to the Tareco
Tareco is a thermal waters place
located at 36 km from Morro do
Chapéu. The children dream
to go there as the place offers
several fun possibilities to play
in the water. They keep the memories
of these days forever in their
lives.
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Capoeira
Presentations
...capoeira for the harmony of
the being! This sentence defines
completely how the capoeira Angola
is practiced in the Minhoca Project.
The group made several presentations
accompanied by a band with many
instruments which “contaminated”
with joy whenever they passed.
The master of the group while
traveling in Germany, attended
several events and festivals showing
capoeira and representing the
Minhoca Project.
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Visitors
from Germany
...sharing cultures and knowledge...
after all we are all “brothers”.
Thanks to!!! (Frank, Maria, Janaina,
Luisa, Bene, Suni, Bárbara,
Luca, Linda, Ana Maria, Axel).
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Oficina
de anjinhos de missangas
...this was the result of an international
exchange coordinated by Maria Bemerlaine.
Caribbean
Dance Classes
...result from another international
exchange which had the presences of
Luca and Barbara who are participants
of the Nigôlo group in Germany.
They taught salsa dance to the students
and teachers of the Project.
Origami
Classes
...another
activity brought by Luca and
Barbara who taught a little
bit of the Japanese art of making
Origami.
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Classes
on how to bake German cookies
…theses classes were led
by another international presence
in the Group,
Linda from Brasiliniciativee
and the above mentioned Bárbara
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Classes
on Christmas cards
...using wood engraving, the students
made beautiful Christmas cards. The
classes were coordinated by Ana Maria
Jacobs.
Lectures
in schools
...the
Minhoca Project participants
gave several lectures in schools
of the community on the subject
“Garbage and the Environment”
. The lectures included also
presentations of marionette
theater, music and exhibitions
of pieces made out of recycling
material.
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Visitors
from other schools
The Project is also visited by member
of local schools which allows a good
interaction of activities with the visitors.
Participação
na elaboração do plano
diretor urbano da cidade
... membros da equipe do Projeto foram
convidados e participaram da equipe
que elaborou o Plano Diretor Urbano,
para o crescimento organizado da cidade
nos próximos dez anos .
First Meeting of the Regional ORGs
...The First Meeting of the
ORGs in the region was organized by
the Minhoca Project. It had the participation
of MOC (Movimento de Organização
Comunitária) which is a well
known social organization in Bahia.
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Environment
...preservation
of nature is a primordial concern
in the Project. Several lectures
on the subject were help, promoted
by environmental organizations,
ecologists and by the teachers
of the Minhoca Project. Several
actions (educational and practical)
were taken by the Project on
this matter.
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Group
Urgent Ecology (GEU)
...this
group was especially created with the
local environment in mind. It is an
open group for anybody who wants to
participate. It has accomplished several
actions and it meets once in a while
to plan new actions.
Cinemoca
...exhibition of educative
movies followed by discussions. Since
the Project does not have a TV or video
equipment, this activity has been interrupted.
Creation of Christmas theme
...this activity brought up the Christmas
spirit through many things such as making
presents, theater plays, musical shows
and participation in the Nativity scene
of the Domingueiras Project, etc.
Recycled
Paper
...constant
activity in the Project which
creates cards and other objects
using recycled paper.
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Black
Conscience
...lectures on the black culture,
its origins and influence in the
history of Brazil and a reflective
study about discrimination in
a general manner.
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Christmas
Play
...street
theater, presented in the streets of
the city, using music, etc.
This story was written by a local psychiatrist
using a popular metric (very famous
in the popular literature, called “cordel”).
This story tells Christ’s birth
and makes a parallel with the life of
the poor man in the northeast of Brazil.
Group
Moment
...kindly
called “circle”,
this meeting happens every day
when all the participants seat
in a circle so that everybody
can see each other. The circular
form favors the integration
among the people, and in the
circle everybody is equal. This
is one of the most important
moments of the Minhoca Project
because it is the moment dedicated
to the group expression (discussions,
prayers, presentations, acknowledgments,
emotions, meals, etc.). It is
a moment when each one of the
members must be present to celebrate
harmony of sharing.
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Annual Review
...one week for the preparation of the
technical team
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Closing
party
...farewell with exchange of presents
made by the students themselves,
assembling of the Christmas decoration,
poetry, delivery of certificates,
music, dance and a little bit
of sadness because the students
do not like being away from the
Project.
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Special
Thanks
Rui
Seabra for his help on the dance classes
Jorge Rocha for his help in the Christmas
Play
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OPINIONS
FROM STUDENTS
I
think the Minhoca Project is a
true family for all of us.
I enjoy spending time with the
people of the Project and I believe
that it makes families with kids
very happy to have it. This year
was great to be here again. I
love coming here to see my “brothers”.
I believe that God is the most
sublime being in the universe
and He will always protect the
Project.
Nothing can keep me from coming
here because I like it a lot.
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Fátima
Pires, 15 years old. |
Reinaldo 13 years old. |
The
Project this year was great because
it motivated us to always go for
what we want. We did several cools
things such as the Children’s
Week program in the schools. This
program encouraged a lot the children
because before it they did not
think of their future, but now
they know they can be well informed
citizens in the world that we
live. The Project exists to make
people think about life, stimulating
them to use the artistic spirit
inside themselves. The Project
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I
only had happy moments here because
I was always learning. With music,
dance, ceramics, informatics,
capoeira. That is why I say that
we should have many more of these
Projects in the city. I wan to
thank all the teachers for having
made me an artist inside and a
good student. This place is sacred. |
Marcio
Santos, 16 years old. |
Jaqueline,
13 years old. |
My name is Jaqueline and I will
talk a little bit about the Minhoca
Project. I will talk not only
about the year 2003 but all its
existence. The Project is great
and it is amazing to have a place
so important for so many people.
During the year we learned a lot
of good things that probably we
would never learn anywhere else.
We learned how to be happy. This
word is so simple, but very few
people seem to know its meaning.
In the Minhoca Project, everybody
knows. Be happy is to have friends,
care, comprehension, organization
and also to learn what is good.
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This
year had a lot of nice things
such as the trip to the Tareco,
the Independence Day parade, the
visits to other schools, the parties
that we organized such as the
Halloween and the June party.
The Project means a lot to me
because it is here that my dreams
come true. We have a lot of nice
teachers and true friends too.
This Project is a special one
that’s why I come here,
to also feel this same special
light. |
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Marley
10, years old. |
I
learned a lot of things here in
2003. ceramics, embroidering,
computers, capoeira, painting,
etc. Thanks to the extra classes
in the Project, I went very well
in school this year. We had a
lot of celebrations this year:
Mother’s day, Independence
Day (which was the best parade
I have ever being in my life).
Now the year is almost over and
everybody here is sad to leave.
I hope to come back next year.
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OPINIONS FROM
THE COMMUNITY
Without
any bad interference from the government,
the Minhoca Project brought to Morro
do Chapéu what the people like
to see. WORK! A beautiful work, well
done and with the responsibility to
show the simplicity of art can transform
Morro do Chapéu. We know that
there are difficulties and that sometimes
people do not respect this project which
has been doing so many good things for
the people in need. Hope the work continues
because this is a good example of culture
and education!
Milton Pinto Filho - Artist
A
cultural pleasure with a great structure,
educationally and socially speaking,
but above all and example to be followed…(hopefully
by those who only talk about they will
do but don’t do)…we should
praise and honor this type of work called
“the unity at the service of the
community”!!
Congratulations to those who have given
their souls to this Project. It is already
giving results as we can see from talking
to the students…. Congratulations
to all who believed in this project
and to those who today work for it.
Greetings!!
A
fraternal hug - Prof. Rui Seabra
I
felt very happy to visit the Minhoca
Project and to feel a nice environment
of harmony and happiness among all the
children. Morro do Chapéu needs
more projects like this, to attend children
and young people and to help them to
become true citizens. This project deserves
all the support and should be visited
to anybody who does not know it. Congratulations
for the great work.
Sheila
Karina – Chief of the 4ª
CIA. of the Police
I
have already visited the Minhoca Project
and I think it is a very important for
Morro do Chapéu. It serves as
an example for other initiatives like
this. Congratulations for the great
Independence Day Parade.
José Ribeiro – Secretary
of Social Work
The
Minhoca Project is more than a project
for me. It is a school where the young
people learn not only what is taught
in class but to be a citizen of the
world.
Maria
Tereza Dourado Lima Vieira - Dean of the
Public School
The
Minhoca Project is a real ART, it is
a real attempt to form conscientious
people through education and a more
meaningful life, raising the interest
in the children for what is around them.
Don’t Stop!! Nothing is more grateful
than creating citizens!!
Daianny Oliveira -Schoold Coordinator
I believe that the Minhoca Project is
one of the main tools of citizenship
teaching to our children. It serves
as an example to everyone.
Dantinhas - Pres. da Sociedade
F. Minerva
This is a project that offers educational
and physical classes to children as
well as artistic activities. It raises
the critical sense in the students making
them more collaborative. It helps them
to have more quality in life with more
perspectives in the future.
M
ª da Graça M. D. Dourado
Lima - Dean of School Adalberto
Morro
do Chapéu needs a lot of Minhoca
Projects. This is undoubtedly one of
the most important social projects in
Morro do Chapéu and should be
supported by everybody in the community.
Congratulations to all the children,
their families and the team of the Minhoca
Project.
Cleová –Council
representative
I learned about the Minhoca Project
when I went there to participate in
one of its activities as a seldom collaborator.
I feel very happy to see those children
enjoying the activities, using their
creativity and learning citizenship.
The students are very well attended
by the personnel of the Project. You
have my support and consideration. Congratulations.
Dr. Jorge Rocha - Psychiatrist
I believe that Morro do Chapéu
can be different and the Minhoca Project
is a great example that good will, love,
dedication and above all, ethics make
a difference. It is good to see that
this project has supporters in Germany
and that there are serious people working
for it. Congratulations to everybody
of the Minhoca Project.
Dra. Adriana Fialho - Dentist
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Further
info:
E-mail:
novainfo@ligbr.com.br
, santanalua@hotmail.com
EDUCATIONAL
GROUP – MINHOCA
Temporary postal address: Av. Cel. Dias
Coelho, 56 1º andar sala 01 - Morro
do Chapéu – BA - BRAZIL
Cep: 44-850-000
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