Quality Education for 5,200 Brazilian Children

Despite the pandemic, the Stories Transforming the Future Project continues in action, mediators are taking turns doing lives and making videos to be posted on ACER's YouTube channel. Videos are posted on Mondays and Fridays and Tuesdays and Thursdays there are live sessions on Instagram, where mediators tell stories and play games for children. Reading is very important for the development of children, in addition to being fun as Everton, who watches all the lives and videos said:
“I like storytelling, because it is good for distracting the mind and it is very cool. I think it's great! Very practical and interesting, I think it's important. It wouldn't change anything, it's very good.”
- Everton, 06 years old

It is also very important for our teenagers, as it has given them the opportunity to improve their communication and the way they work. Kaylaine, one of the young mediators told us about the experience:
“In most of the stories we tell, there is some kind of teaching behind it or some way to develop children's imagination and thus also encourage them to want to read more stories. I like making videos and lives, because somehow I still help and keep doing the work I like. We reading mediators have the role of encouraging and bringing reading closer to children, contributing to their development, and I would not change any of that.”
- Kaylaine, 16 years old - Reading Mediator.

It is very important and gratifying to know that the Project is making improvements in so many lives, for young people and children, improving their development despite all this difficult period that we are facing, because even in isolation, children can have contact with educational activities, because not all parents have time to read a book for the child.

We are really looking forward to the return of storytelling and puppet theatre in schools.