Safe shelters for teenagers often lack resources to respond to the needs of the boys and girls they host. The hosts live in a safe environment but the safe shelters often lack resources to offer them programmes that tackle their past stories of violence, abandon, drug, alcoholism.
"Each year the Feast of the Sacred Heart is an opportunity to allow
ourselves to be touched more deeply by that Heart and to root our
hope and trust there..."
"Cada año la Fiesta del Sagrado Corazón es una oportunidad para
dejarnos tocar más profundamente por ese Corazón y ahí enraizar
nuestra esperanza y confianza..."
"The call to care for our common home, which is replete with diverse beauty, holds unprecedented urgency. Driven by an ethic of caring about the future of our planet we, along with so many others responding to this call, seek creative and effective ways to heed this urgency.
« L’appel à prendre soin de notre maison commune, qui regorge de beautés diverses, revêt une urgence sans précédent. Poussés par une éthique soucieuse de l’avenir de notre planète, nous répondons, avec beaucoup d’autres, à cet appel de rechercher des moyens créatifs et efficaces de prendre en compte cette urgence.
"La llamada a cuidar de nuestra casa común, que está llena de bellezas diferentes, tiene una urgencia sin precedentes. Impulsados e impulsadas por una ética del cuidado sobre el futuro de nuestro planeta, junto con tantos otros y tantas otras respondiendo a esta llamada, buscamos formas creativas y efectivas de prestar atención a esta urgencia.
The Associação Brincar e Crescer – Asbrinc - was created in 2004 to attend to the social and educational needs of the children and youth of Alto da Boa Vista (Rio do Janeiro). Maria Cecilia Rondon Amarante rscj is the president of Asbrinc.
Objective
To promote a culture of arts among teenagers in Alto da Boa Vista (Rio do Janeiro)
Local deforestation in the Amazon rainforest of State of Mato Grosso is affecting bees, the most important pollinators, that are becoming an endangered specie.
Objective
To protect the environment and biodiversity of the village of Japuíra (State of Mato Grosso) where the Myky indigenous population lives and to promote food sovereignty.