By Diane Pereira Sousa
Last year Baixada participated in the Comuá Network Capacity Building program. We could use many words to say what this program represents for our organization, but the one that makes the most sense is to see. It is a word that cannot walk alone, see and understand, see and invest, see and strengthen. Guimarães Rosa says that the flow of life wraps everything up and suddenly no more than suddenly in our field we are unwrapping processes and wrapping up people, organizations start to be bigger than the people who build them in their daily toil. Just as we prioritize the organization's electricity bill, we must prioritize people's energy. In this case it's not about keeping the power running with a payment to someone who provides the electricity, it's about building solidarity, recognition, acceptance and opportunity.
And what does this have to do with the Capacity Building program? All!
Two people from Baixada had the chance to dedicate themselves through the program to improving the study of English, two people became 6 who became 22. Building this possibility requires commitment, but first and foremost it is necessary to see. When we're in a network, that's what we're looking for, that's what we are as a collective, but above all who we are as individuals, have you seen how an anthill works?
Having this experience makes us want to establish a pact from the green door to the inside, none of us advances without the other advancing, suddenly chess becomes quaternity, and strengthening capacities by creating opportunities for people as well as the organization to grow is fundamental .
As members of the Comuá Network, we highlight the importance of investments like this to streamline the internal learning processes of organizations, creating more humane environments.
Diane Pereira Sousa is from Maranhão from Baixada Maranhense. Teacher. Master in Human Rights, Interculturality and Development. Fellow Ashoka. President of the Baixada Community Foundation. Managing Partner of the Training Institute. He studies and researches everyday life, models of alternative education and youth. One of his specialties in national and international events is poetic bridges (mediations) articulating dreams and reality.
He coordinated the book “Can you hear my voice?”. He wrote and coordinated the booklet “Human Rights and Student Protagonism” for Flacso. She is co-author of the book “About Our Grandmothers – memory, resistance and ancestry”. He wrote and coordinated the Educative Sports manuals for citizenship and social development. He wrote and coordinated the systematization of Futebol 3 for children. He wrote and coordinated the book Futebol 3 – History of the use of this methodology in Brazil.
Participation in this activity was made possible by the Program for Strengthening Professional Capabilities, within the scope of the Strategic Support Program of the Comuá Network, whose objective is to support the development and strengthening of the professional skills and capabilities of the technical staff of member organizations, expanding and deepening their knowledge and strengthening its activities in the fields of community philanthropy and social justice.
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