Quality Education for 5,200 Brazilian Children

It is extremely gratifying for us to be able to share interviews with a teacher and a head teacher where we can clearly see how our Project delivered by community teenagers is helping local elementary school teachers develop their capacity to better reach the children they teach.

Tamr, a teacher from the Annete Melchioretto elementary school gives us his view on the project and how it helps the children “the most important aspect of the project is the reading which is done at different times and by different teenagers and also using different ways such as through storytelling and puppet theatre or even using objects to help develop the children’s imagination. They like the storytelling and the activities which are done and hold the children’s attention; it surprises me because it is often extremely difficult for me to keep the children’s attention and through the project you manage to make them pay attention from beginning to end of the activity. I am learning a lot from this and am applying it in my own classes in order to have better control of the children; they are always asking when ACER will be back and are anxious for you to return with new activities.”

Patricia is the head of Atila Ferreira Vaz elementary school and tells us that “many of our children only have contact with books, storytelling and puppet theatre at school so this project serves to incentivize the children and the more we incentivize this practice and the diversity of stories, the more they develop their writing, reading, telling and learning stories. We have a timetable established with ACER so the children know which day you will come and they create expectations about which activity and subjects will be done; these activities help develop literacy as the children really engage with them and this is very positive for their learning processes. It is extremely gratifying to see how well prepared the ACER teenagers are and how they have a special care for the students; our teachers and staff end up learning from them because the teens easily adapt to each different classroom with a kind activity for the different kinds of students we have.”

Thank you to all our supporters who continue to support this incredibly valuable work.