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Brazil - Rio de Janeiro 
The Trip to Rio de Janeiro is a collaboration of South Kids International (SKI) and
our Partner Sponsor Airline Ambassadors International.
Dates: To Be Announced, Please see Travel Calendar.
Purpose: volunteers will be asked to bring clothes, toys, games to play with kids, and with a help of a children therapeutic psychologist, volunteers will utilize materials, especially crayons, painting sets, and musical instruments, to help these youngsters cope with their fears and frustrations in life.
Invitation to volunteers
Interested parties, new volunteers are welcome to join the AAI/SKI group on a 6-day return trip to Rio de Janeiro that includes visits to various facilities that will be benefiting from this initiative.
The SKI team will meet with the administrations of the locations housing the children and youth of these organizations, visit the facilities, and meet and participate with the children and youth in their activities.
The SKI team will have access to Hotel accommodations and local volunteer houses who are ALSO helping on this mission.
There will be a $ 100.00 (one hundred dollar) charge per person to the volunteers in order to help defer costs related to the administration of this effort such as:
- School Materials for the Orphanages $ 60.00
- Administrative Support $40.00
Package Ground Price: $420
ALL VOLUNTEERS WILL BE ASKED TO SIGN A WAIVER…. AS ATTACHED
PROJECT: Fund Raising SWEAT EQUITY RIO ONE
The Trip to Rio de Janeiro with a collaboration of our Partner Sponsor Airline Ambassador
Dates: To Be Announced
Agenda:
Day one: Travel to Brazil, arrival transfer to hotel accommodations.
Day two: Visit to Casa Santa Clara (Santa Clara House).
Day three: Visit to Abrigo Crescendo em Cristo (Crescendo em Cristo Daycare).
Day four: Visit to Abrigo Doce Morada ( Doce Morada House ).
Day five: Visit to Organizacao Mirim do Morro Azul ( Morro Azul Boyscout Organitation ).
Day six: Visit to Associacao da Praia de Botafogo (AAPB).
Hotel Information:
The hotel Monza includes free breakfast and and pool facility, and nearby, a good restaurant.
It is located at:
Avenida Embaixador Abelardo Bueno, 1000 – Jacarepagua- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Contact Phone: 011-5521-2441-1885
 Santa Clara House:
Day two; visit Santa Clara House
Address : Estrada Mucuiba, 800 – Vargem Grande – Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Phone :0115521-2428-2233
www.familiasantaclara.org.br
Purpose: volunteers will be asked to bring clothes, toys, and games to play with the kids. With a help of a children therapeutic psychologist, volunteers will use materials, especially crayons, painting sets, and musical instruments, to help these youngsters to cope with their fears and frustrations in life.
 Santa Clara is operated/administered by a family trying to help children and youth by providing the means for them to reintegrate into society -- valuing peace -- and give them the chance for a fair opportunity to grow and prosper.
Santa Clara's goal is to live, share and learn with the children and youth and thereby provide them with a better life -- benefitting everyone.
In the last 19 years, Santa Clara House has had a solid history of great success. Over 1000 challenged children and youth received help at Santa Clara.
Over 50 young people left Santa Clara and built a productive and independent life. These are, 50 responsible citizens who have joined the labor force and are contributing positively to a better society.
Several Santa Clara alumni currently are attending university in various faculties such as economics, psychology, nursing, information technology and social studies.
Many have been reinstated to his family of origin and the process of redeployment together properly, the majority of them successfully.
Throughout its history children and youth helped in Santa have had excellent schools results, with academic averages consistently above 95%.
More than 50 young people have already left the Family Santa Clara to build an independent life inserted in the labor market, with excellent chances to become productive and prosperous citizens.
SANTA CLARA NEEDS HELP TO CONTINUE HELPING CHILDREN AND YOUTH.
www.familiasantaclara.org.br
Crescendo em Cristo Daycare:
Day 3: Visit to House Crescendo em Cristo.
Location: Rua Parana, 154- Nova Iguacu- Rio de Janeiro- Brasil
Telephone: 0115521-3764-1835
The Crescendo em Cristo Daycare was founded in 2004 and reopen in March 2007.
It is composed by a group of christians
who felt the need to preach the name of God in the city of Moquetá.
Their mission is to help the lower local community mothers and fathers sheltering some young kids as their parents go to work.
The daycare believes that people should have an equal change to know God by preaching Jesus words: ‘help the need people’.
They are committed to work with the children, offering them lessons on who to improve their learning activities with the history of the bible.
Their purpose is to lead people into an intense relationship with God, to know how to serve, and to make Jesus known to all peoples, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
- Crescendo em Cristo Daycare looks after children and youth from poor families where parents must work and have no one to look after children.
- Crescendo em Cristo Daycare also look after children and youth that were abandoned by their parents.
- Crescendo em Cristo Daycare is a christian house that has volunteers from the local church.
- Crescendo em Cristo Daycare is sustained by the sale of used clothes from people from the church.
- Crescendo em Cristo Daycare staff treats children and youth with respect, dignity and love.
- Crescendo em Cristo Daycare is a beautiful place, clean.
- Crescendo em Cristo Daycare needs help to continue offering these services to needy children and youth.
Doce Morada House:
Day 4: Visit to Doce Morada.
Location: Rua Batista, 51 - Morro do Chá - Santa Cruz - Rio de Janeiro-RJ – phone: 0115521-3402-8810
www.abrigodocemorada.org.br
 Doce Morada daycare was founded on March 13, 1983. It was originally intended to help 50 children from 2 to 6 years under the name Daycare Casulo Carlos Gomes. On August 13, 1993, it went through financial problems, which caused the board of directors to change its original name to Daycare Casulo Augustine. In 2003, it was facing many difficulties, forcing to close its doors for 15 days. In the same year, another organization called Doce Morada homeless institution helped them with clothes, food and all the support to reopen the place, taking control of its administration.
Doce Morada House works with challenged children and senior citizens..
 Initially Doce Morada was created to
shelter senior citizens, however, the
enormous necessity to help those with greater needs, this institution expanded its work to a nursery housing of 160 children.
Doce Morada also helps the mothers of these children who are also needy themselves.
In 2005, Doce Morada house received the donation of a piece of land in order to continue their work of love.
Doce Morada needs help to continue providing the basic care to help challenged children and senior citizens.
Morro Azul Boyscout Organization: 
Day five: visit Morro Azul Boyscout Organization
Location: 116/RJ-GGEMar Marques de Tamandare
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Telephone: 011-5521-2556-7949
E-Mail: gemar116@click21.com.br
This is a community of children and youth that supports and is supported by the boys and girl scouts organizations.
The organization teaches skills to have children to help each other.
Morro Azul helps to the children and youth to develop social, mental, spiritual and physical capacities by learning how to best interact with each other.
They believe that children and youth can learn life and survival skills by playing boy/girl scout games, and needs help to continue helping children and youth.
They are a group in Rio de Janeiro dedicated to use social project, helping young and handicapped kids, which comes from a family of very low income.
Today, these projects are developed and used in the Communities, with integration of social inclusion, professionalism, cultural, artistic and sports. The Scouting, aims at the formation of the man of good, supportive, responsible, concerned about environmental preservation, peace, happy, participatory, self spirit of team, ready to help your neighbor in any occasion, as the young people of today are the adults of tomorrow.
They meet on Saturday mornings for the ceremony of the flag and then each group that meets on this day, they look for a place in the Community where they can perform their activities, such as cleaning their streets, recycling cans of sodas, planting trees and preserving their environment.
Morro Azul Boyscout Organization has a goal to develop programs and projects of cooperation to the improvement of planning and implementation non-formal education for children and young people from the age of 7 to 21 years old. Their principles and methods are to achieve the handicapped kids their full potential of their physical, intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual areas, as responsible citizens, in their communities.
Associaçao Amigos da Praia de Botafogo:
Rua Praia de Botafogo, 472, sala# 209
Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro
Phone: 011-5521-9833-7125
E-mail: aliceaapb@gmail.com
On this day we will dress up to represent the company we work for.
It will be fun!
 AAPB was founded 20 years ago and is made up by residents of the city of Botafogo.
It is a difficult challenge project that helps young kids from the Streets. Due to financial resources, their work is very difficult, and just a few low-income street children can benefit from this project.
AAPB was developed to help kids with social skills, allowing the inclusion of the street children to society, thereby promoting the recovery of human dignity of these disable kids of the city of Botafogo.
Their mission is to work the youngsters' self-esteem, as well as build their identity through steps of observation, remodeling and experimentation of each one of them. So far this project has been a tremendous success.
The project is made up with 58 professionals. They teach challenged youth 
and children about hygiene, food and psychological care that live in
poor housing and slums.
They provide children and youth with food, education, health care and social development. They also teach the value of education of arts, music and theatre.
They teach challenged youth and children about the environment, about the importance to work with preservation of nature through sports and leisure.
Their mission is to help the building of children and youth’s self-esteem. Children and youth learn how to value their existence to become great contributors to their communities.
AAPB helps to build challenged children and young to build their positive identity thought mentoring programs, and allowing children to empower their abilities to think, act with integrity, making them socially responsible.
Join us on this journey of the heart and share in the lives of Brazil's young people!
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