We are a group of friends, who, for more than twenty years, have constantly been working to bring about tangible improvement in some favelas of Brazil by promoting education and well-being of children and adolescents in need. This work, started by Father Giorgio Callegari in BRAZIL, continues everyday in various shelters for the meninos de rua and the faveladosi of the most impoverished communities of Sao Paulo and Peruibe. In an emerging Brazil, the plight of the poorest of the poor is only worsening. Father Giorgio’s shelters are beginning to get funding in order to feed the children, but at this time do not receive any funding towards their education. Our goal is to help these centers to this regard.

Thanks to the generosity of all of our friends, each year we are able to give every child what we, in Italian, call “zainetto didattico,” or “educational backpack”. In Portuguese “Mochila didática”.