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Posted by on May 7, 2014 in Featured |

Lithuania: a Special Visitor Among Us!

Lithuania: a Special Visitor Among Us!

             Lithuania Brown, native of Curação on the Caribbean Islands lives in Holand for 26 years and had came to Brazil, specifically to Sabinopolis for two weeks. While she was in Brazil, Lithuania worked as a volunteer in Sabinopolis BEM’s Child Care Center’s nursery. The sweet lady helped a lot all the nursery’s team. Fed the children, changed diapers, took care of the crying children and also left everyone on the team missing her so much. Everyone repeated thousand times how thankful they were for her great help.             Lithuania also visited the Pataxó’s native indians tribe in Carmésia, Senhora do Porto’s waterfall and was able to meet a lot of members of IEMP church in Sabinopolis and villages around. In Rio Vermelho, Lithuania met BEM’s team and its projects, visited families that participate in the projects. Lithuania brought with her a lot of toys donated by her workmates in a hospital. She gave them away in the Child...

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Posted by on Apr 10, 2014 in Featured |

World Health Day 2014

World Health Day 2014

Annemarie Voorsluys, student International Change and Project Management, specialization Public Health Currently, my brother and me are staying in Sabinopolis, Brazil, and I am giving health classes about sexual health, and when possible about nutrition and hygiene. The World Health Day has been a concern for me, since it is a day to highlight a public health topic. This year the focus of the World Health Day is on vector-borne diseases: a small bite can be a bit threat. You could think of Malaria. Unfortunately, I can’t relate very much to this topic during my weeks in Sabinopolis, since I’m keeping myself busy with sexual health and lifestyle related health issues, including nutrition and hygiene. Besides, as far as I am concerned, there are not much vector-borne diseases in Sabinopolis. However, one thing I can say about vector-borne issues, is that the mosquito bites come in nightly attacks in Sabinopolis! My legs are extremely itchy because yesterday, a mosquito (or spider, not sure what the little animal actually was)...

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Posted by on Mar 25, 2014 in Featured |

Three Pitiful reasons at the International Women’s Day

Three Pitiful reasons at the International Women’s Day

I’ll argue here that we don’t have much to celebrate the International Women’s Day in 2014. Celebrating this day means to celebrate the equality of gender and we haven’t had significant advances nationwide on this matter. Let’s see: Maria da Penha’s Law hasn’t been working very well or have allowed that the unacceptable should be thrown on the fan? Last year, a frightening statistic revealed that Brazil occupies the 7th position among the countries with the highest number of female homicides. In relation to labor market, women still earn less than men, even when performing the same activities. The women are still used as a cheap labor and are more well instructed, because, as pointed in research, women have more years of studying than men, but their salaries are not equivalent. In the culture of dictatorship of beauty, two fears are attached to women: the fear of gaining weigh and the fear of aging. The seek for these stereotypes of beauty, generate an abusive profit to the industry of...

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Posted by on Mar 14, 2014 in News |

Take part in the Day Care Center is really good!

Take part in the Day Care Center is really good!

The weekly routine of the nursery is always filled with nice things. Fun and joy abound us daily. We understand that playing, our children are strengthened to face hard situations. So, how about a soccer game with colored balls or who knows how interesting it could be to build our own play dough? The kids from the Day Care Center dive into colored little balls and go for a ride in their cycle. To build our toy and pay our lawn, children won’t miss inspiration. Check it out! That’s the BEM Day Care Center in Rio...

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Posted by on Feb 27, 2014 in Featured |

International Mother Language Day

International Mother Language Day

Although the official language of Brazil is portuguese, there are about 274 native languages spoken here. It is estimated that during the discovery of brazilian lands, the number of languages spoken were around 1300.  The communication through a language, is the most basic way of organization of the experience and the human knowledge, besides being an important factor for culture and history of a people. The mother language is the basis for self expression and its good use also works for learning other languages. It even reflects, in a singular way, the worldview of the people that speak it. The native language is a culture vehicle of the system of values for those who dominates it. We are strongly attached to the language we speak. The communication through the native language leads the individual to express his own emotions and humor more easily. In the International Mother Day Language, we recognize that the language spoken is strongly linked to the culture of the people that speak it.  Let’s promote...

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