Category:Community philanthropy

By Diane Pereira Sousa

The hands of local development are female. I begin this text with this statement, I use the Production Center of the Itamatatiua community as a basis.

I invite you to reflect on how community development is built. We will remove our gaze from the way we interact in large cities, from fast cars, from the lights that open and close, from brainstorms, from the search for improving the future, and we will place it in a different place, where our bodies, hours, structures do not they tend to be there frequently. And by being I mean the concrete action of experiencing. We go directly to Itamatatiua.

By Diane Pereira Sousa*

The clock is the sky. At five in the morning Betinha begins her journey. A coffee in the pot releases the first scent of the day. Bodies still sleep in that little tijupá. In the backyard, the roosters start to crow: it's a new clock appearing, time on this piece of land is not imperative, it speaks softly, it's calm and succinct, like the walk of a lowlander. Betinha is time itself. She is never alone on the way to the farm, fellow travelers join the walk. There are varied songs and stories, exchanges of knowledge, there is an invisible network cooperating; There is already a name for what they do, but on that piece of land, any classification cannot be sustained, there will always be a word missing. Of science little, of sapience everything.