Approximation Network

Bio na Remo: Open events of scientific divulgation between USP’s units (IB and USP Aproxima-Ação) and institutions of Jd. São Remo. 200 people reached (CCEx of IB, interns and residents of Jd. São Remo).

Read more: Institute of Biosciences (IB)

Population census conducted by the Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA): in the communities neighboring USP (São Remo and Keralux), it intends to interview all – or virtually all – households. To be admitted as a census survey, it aims to reach at least 92% of the households. The Aproxima-Ação program participated in the census by providing institutional support through the work of PUB fellows in the Keralux and São Remo communities. São Remo Census – partners: Institute for Advanced Studies of USP and São Remo Approach Network.

Learn more: Institute of Advanced Studies (IEA)

Didactic Concert: Concert aimed at 6 to 10 year-old classes from 8 educational institutions, the result of a partnership between the USP Aproxima-Ação Program and OSUSP. On May 23, the 1st concert of the year 2019 was held: 700 children from 8 schools were present. The organization of the event counted with the contribution of the Aproxima-Ação program team, in total there were 10 present (scholarship holders, interns and educator).

Read more: USP Symphony Orchestra (OSUSP)

The CEPE has the mission to offer the university community programs of physical education, sport, recreation and opportunity for voluntary practice of physical activities, aiming at well-being, improvement of quality of life and its integration, extending to the external community to the extent of its possibilities.

Read more: CEPE USP

Project created with the intention of promoting a collaborative and inter-institutional environment for professionals with different competencies to build in an integrated way, and together with the population of the São Remo slum, unique health promotion strategies that serve as an example and can be adapted to other slums. The strategies include action plans and the construction of indicators to monitor progress and propose improvements in the following thematic areas: environmental health, animal health, human health, and community participation.

Learn more: School of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics (FMVZ-USP)

Projeto Alavanca was born in 2004 due to the precarious school situation of children and adolescents in the Favela São Remo, offering them after school activities. The project grew and with financial resources from Germany, acquired its own headquarters, reaching 150 children in afterschool activities. In 2010, community leaders took over the project and currently, children and teenagers from the first cycle of elementary school are served in the after school hours.

Learn more: Projeto Alavanca

The Centro Cultural Riacho Doce São Remo conducts activities to disseminate popular music, especially the sport-art capoeira, in addition to conducting crafts workshop with recyclable materials. It has been active in São Remo with children and young people for more than 10 years.

Learn more: Centro Cultural Riacho Doce

The Circus School offers social and educational services in the after school hours for 300 children, teenagers and young adults aged 6 to 17 years and 11 months, providing a place for the practice of sports, arts and citizenship, with a view to strengthening family and community ties. The activities developed contribute to the prevention of isolation experiences, prevention of social risk situations, and favor coexistence and collective actions. It is also characterized as a space that encourages citizen participation, the return and permanence of the teenager/youth in school, besides promoting universal values (solidarity, justice, ethics, friendship, culture of peace, among others).

Focused on field soccer, the project has existed in São Remo for over 6 years. It serves children and young people between the ages of six and twenty-three and goes far beyond the lines of the field, accompanying the students in various social aspects.

Read more: Catumbi Soccer School Social Project

The Espaço Girassol is located in Jardim São Remo and maintained by the NGO Agente Jovem is an organization founded by people from the Health Free Methodist Church. The Agente Jovem/Girassol project carries out in its attendance space:

– After-school activities, in the areas of reading writing, culture and sport, for children of school age in Elementary School 1, from 6 to 11 years old.

– Youth and Adult Education Program (EJA), developed during the night in partnership with other organizations that work in the community. It has the capacity to attend 20 people.

– Nutritional accompaniment and physical development: In partnership with the Pastoral da Criança, it develops actions for nutritional reinforcement for children from 0 to 6 years old, accompaniment of pregnant women and lectures for mothers. In Pandemic 2020/2021

– The educators are producing and sending printed content and activities once a month to the students, as well as videos for the parents in the whatsapp group. They have been distributing food baskets to families since the beginning of the pandemic.

Learn more: Sunflower Space