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Building a second chance


Brazil’s ‘favela’ slums are no place to grow up; they are full of wretched poverty, disease and violence. Life in a favela can steal a young person’s childhood.


But the Christians of Curitiba want to give some of the region’s most troubled favela kids their childhoods back.


You will be helping to build two new homes for these children. They will be places of safety; places to play, feel secure and learn how to be healthy, happy children again.


What you will be doing The Open Hands project (our long-term partner in Brazil) is co-ordinating the construction of two new buildings for the children and staff to move into. You will be helping to build and decorate these. They will house, educate and care for up to twenty children. A suitable plot of land has been located and the plan is to complete the entire project in 2012.


You will meet the current crop of children in the old building and witness the amazing transformation that Lar Feliz can bring. You will also visit a number of other outreach projects in the area, including the Project Open Hands village, which resettles favela dwellers and with which Mission Direct will continue to work in the future.


Trip dates


31 Mar to


15 April EASTER


29 Sept to


14 Oct 2012


20 Oct to


4 Nov 2012


10 Nov to


25 Nov 2012


2011 – places still available: 1-16 Oct, 12-27 Nov


Contribution


£1,495 Trip contribution is requested to cover all expenses. All further money you raise goes directly to the project.


Breathtaking Brazil You can make a trip to the breathtaking Iguazu Falls and walk in a protected rainforest. Also, you can visit Itaipu Dam, one of the greatest feats of engineering in the modern world.


The project Lar Feliz is Portuguese for ‘happy home’. The Christian organisation opened its first home in 1958. Their purpose is to provide a place to live for groups of children from the favelas who are at risk, giving them quality food, education and all the nurture they need to be part of a happy family. The original Curitiba home is no longer fit for purpose. The children need a new ‘happy home’, one even better suited to the job of taking broken lives and putting them back together again.


BRAZIL


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