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Project takes lab online to Chapadão do Céu, MS

Entrepreneurship for a better world [Empreender para um mundo melhor] is a cultural project approved by Brazil’s Culture Incentive Law and sponsored by SLC Agrícola, through the SLC Institute, and run by VR Projetos. Its main goal is to encourage and stimulate students, through a performance using puppets called “Sonhos” [Dreams], to believe that they really can make their dreams come true, even though they seem so distant from their lives today, and to show to them that school is the only way to make that happen.

The project also shows to teachers, using an online laboratory, how communication, empathy, respect and love for others is important and helps to fuel students’ dreams and encourage them to stay in school. The project’s two actions demonstrate that everyone has an entrepreneur inside them. In fact, we all already act as entrepreneurs in our daily lives and in the lives of other people, such as the case of teachers with their students.

The performance, which adopts a popular storytelling style in Brazil called cordel, which is performed by the theatrical group PREGANDO PEÇA, tells the story of a young boy who dreams of becoming a circus entrepreneur, with the audience accompanying all his challenges and frustrations. But most importantly it raises students’ awareness of the importance of pursuing opportunities and believing that they have the capacity to achieve their dreams.

The practical activity for teachers, which is administered by the journalist Cristiane Ostermann, shows how every day in our homes, families and friends we can create a more welcoming and compassionate environment that fosters the development of more productive and healthy relationships.

The social arm of SLC Agrícola, the SLC Institute works to support in local communities actions focused on education. Launched in 2019, the project already has expanded to the cities of Cristalina and Luziânia in Goiás state. In March, the project’s theatrical group was already packed and ready to take their workshop for teachers and theatrical performance for students on the road to communities in the cities of Luís Eduardo Magalhães, Barreiras and Formosa do Rio Preto in the state of Bahia, Tasso Fragoso in the state of Maranhão, Costa Rica and Chapadão do Sul in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Chapadão do Céu in the state of Goiás and Santa Filomena in the state of Piauí. However, because of the pandemic it had to put its plans on hold and reinvent itself, which led it to transform the workshop for teachers into an online activity conducted on the digital platform Zoom, which enabled participants to connect and even form working groups. Although new to everyone, the experience was redesigned down to the smallest detail to bring people together in this delicate moment when talking about feelings, even if in a virtual environment, has become so important. The theatrical performance will have to wait a while, but in 2021, when schools reopen, the troupe will pack up their show and hit the road again.

Project takes lab online to Chapadão do Céu, MS

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