Starting a conversation, or rather, continuing an old conversation that started when I chose the Pedagogy course. This happened in 2006 and during my undergraduate studies what enchanted me most was popular education, which I call human education.
On the 4th, 5th and 6th of September, representatives from Casa Fluminense (RJ), the Brazilian Environmental Education Fund – FunBEA (SP), the Grande Florianópolis Community Institute (SC), the Baixada Maranhense Community Institute (MA), the Instituto Procomum (SP), Redes da Maré (RJ), and Tabôa Fortalecimento Comunitário (BA) met in Santos, São Paulo, to hold the first meeting of the Territorial Alliance to plan the future with a focus on community and territorial philanthropy. The meeting had the support of Rede Comuá, integrating the actions of the Month of Philanthropy that Transforms calendar, and served to create the action plan for 2024 and define expected results until 2026, with the facilitation of Luciana Martinelli and Bruna Mattos, from the consultancy Dialógica – Human and Institutional Development.
Produced by Casa Fluminense, the first edition of the Guide to Climate Justice seeks to schematically systematize the experiences of social and ancestral practices, solutions and technologies developed in our neighborhoods, favelas and outskirts ignored by public authorities, in confronting climate disasters through adaptation strategies and/or mitigation of environmental impacts suffered by those who contribute least to climate change.
Initiative aims to strengthen communities and territories
De 12 a 14 de abril, a Rede Comuá participou do 12º Congresso GIFE (Grupos, Institutos, Fundações e Empresas), com a mesa “Filantropia Comunitária: mobilização de atores diversos para a mobilização”. Na ocasião, Larissa Amorim, coordenadora executiva da Casa Fluminense, que participou como uma das palestrantes, anunciou a constituição da Aliança Territorial.
Created in the context of Rede Comuá from the articulation of seven member organizations: Tabôa – community strengthening, FunBEA (Brazilian Environmental Education Fund), ICOM (Great Florianópolis Community Institute), Baixada Maranhense Community Institute, Redes da Maré, Instituto Procomum and Casa Fluminens, the initiative aims to promote articulation and exchange of experiences between territorial-based organizations (community funds and community foundations), seeking to develop joint strategies and reflect on the challenges of mobilizing resources for the institutions involved.
By Claudia Cruz and Fabbi Silva
March 11, 2020 became known as a global milestone for the pandemic, when many states began to adopt Ordinance 356 of the Ministry of Health, which regulated measures to combat the health emergency due to the coronavirus. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, the then governor, Wilson Witzel, published a decree, on March 16, which instituted quarantine/social isolation with more restrictive circulation measures. A few days later, on March 19, the state recorded the first death from COVID-19, a 63-year-old black woman and domestic worker. And that is why, this Thursday, as we complete the first year of the global milestone, in the middle of March of struggles and for Marielle Franco, we reflect on the impacts that the pandemic has had on the lives of women in Rio de Janeiro. We are the majority in the Metropolitan Region, where we total 52,86% of inhabitants, and we were the first to die from COVID-19.
By Luize Sampaio
The vaccine is the only way to combat the new coronavirus pandemic, but the lack of unified work between government levels has resulted in a slowness in the vaccination process. Today we are experiencing a second wave of the disease with a daily increase in the lack of beds in the ICU throughout Rio de Janeiro. In the metropolitan region, which concentrates 70% of the state's population, priority groups suffer from the lack of vaccines and long queues that start in the early hours of the morning. Currently, the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro has vaccinated only 5.3% of its population. Until the last Saturday of the month (27/03), some municipalities in the region had still not managed to vaccinate even 1% of their residents, as is the case of São Gonçalo, Seropédica and Cachoeiras de Macacu.
By Henrique Silveira
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed and deepened inequality in access to rights, services and urban infrastructure in the outskirts and favelas of the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro. At a time when public power was most needed, society witnessed lack of coordination, neglect and negligence. With the population left to its own devices, the work of NGOs, collectives and community organizations was fundamental in minimizing the effects of the health and social crisis that has severely impacted the poorest population.
The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic and the installation of quarantine in the country's main cities quickly presented a new reality for millions of Brazilians. Social isolation is the main measure to minimize the effects of COVID-19 and reduce the virus's spread curve. However, this measure has side effects, such as a decrease in economic activities, an increase in unemployment and the risk of a global recession. Brazil is not alone in this dilemma. The world finds itself facing an unprecedented crisis, with the task of saving lives and reinventing the future.
