Improving Education for 5,200 Brazilian Children

In this year of 2021, the Histories Transforming the Future Project needed to undergo some changes. Firstly because of the continuation of the pandemic, as activities were temporarily no longer taking place in schools and children moved to the ACER community space. But, in addition to all this, our team responsible for the project also has changed.
Lucas was, until the end of January, the project coordinator, but the young man received an excellent job offer to work in a large multinational company and he shares how this project impacted both his professional and social life: “I spent 3 years as a reading mediator and 01 year and 05 months as the person in charge of the project, but I ended up leaving ACER to go to work in a large multinational automobile company. The Stories Transforming the Future Project and ACER, in total, taught me a lot and I had several experiences with this project. I had more contact with children and young people, I certainly entered their world and was able to feel the pleasure and joy of being daily a child and being with them. There was also a very positive side, as I managed to become very responsible, talking to school coordinators and directors on a daily basis and always receiving positive feedback.”

With Lucas leaving, the project needed a new coordinator and so Stephanie was hired. She told us a little about her expectations and goals for this new stage in her life:

“I got to know the project in 2012, when I worked as a reading mediator and I can remember very well how nice it was to participate in this project. Working here at ACER, this experience confirmed and aroused my desire to work with children, I believe it was one of the reasons that made me study pedagogy. And so I decided to follow the path so that it has a continuity and does not lose that essence that it has since 2012. And my goal as responsible for this project, in my opinion, I hope to plant a little seed inside each child, so that he grows up with this delicious and wonderful taste that reading gives us. And for the reading mediators who are teenagers, I hope to help them develop for the job market, bringing a spirit of responsibility and self-confidence and that they start to think about a goal or go after a goal in their lives.”

And so we can see the importance of this project, not only for the children who participate in school activities but also for the young people who work, improving their professional and cultural knowledge and allowing them to think, build and transform a better future for themselves and for others..