Education Brazil Project #56834

Technology Transforming Lives in Brazil

by Rede Cidada

Project Report | May 8, 2024
Women in the labor market: a commitment to equity

By Luza Marinho | Resources Mobilization Coordinator

In the search for gender equality in the labor market, it’s crucial to highlight the importance of valuing and supporting women, especially those in vulnerable situations. These women face additional obstacles due to a variety of factors, such as intersectionality, discrimination, lack of access to education and limited opportunities.

Valuing them means offering support, mentoring, training programs, projects and inclusive policies to promote their professional and economic development.

Furthermore, by recognizing and valuing the potential of women in vulnerable situations, we are investing not only in their individual careers, but also in building a fairer and more inclusive society. It's a smart strategy to drive sustainable economic growth.

Our computer labs serve audiences who are in various vulnerable situations, including homeless women. Like Jordania*, who participated in the POT Mothers program and left us her testimony.

“I want to thank POT Mothers, because through it I got a job at an events company. I asked Rede Cidadã’s team to remove me from the program to give other mothers the same opportunity I had. This is a very important program for mothers who need to take care of their children and have an income. Now I’m in a company, I’m formally employed and I’m very grateful for that.”

Rede Cidadã builds solutions with partner organizations to meet this demand and we invite you, reader, to build a solution with us!

*Ficticious name

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Jan 16, 2024
Technology as an agent of social transformation

By Carla Ottoni | Project Leader

Apprendices lab

We at Rede Cidadã are happy that 2023 was a year of achievements. We promote human and social development for integration into the world of work, welcoming people in the most diverse situations of vulnerability and preparing them technically and emotionally to enter and remain in the world of work. Contributing to quality education and collaborating with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 4.

In 2023, we had 4 computer labs implemented or refurbished in the following cities: Recife - PE, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Nova Lima - MG and Lagoa da Prata - MG. These have contributed to training more than 16,000 people in programmes such as Apprenticeships, Internships and Projects. We were also able to give 1,097 young people access to technology programmes in partnership with Microsoft and IBM. These training courses available for certification contribute to digital empowerment with topics such as: Revolution 4.0, Internet of Things, BigData and content that contributes to ascension, maintenance and success in the world of work.

Among the Rede Cidadã projects, we would highlight START in partnership with the multinational Accenture and EquipYouth in partnership with the IYF - International Youth Foundation, which together have trained 538 young people using cutting-edge methodology, enabling these socially vulnerable young people to have an opportunity to develop with quality education, generating job opportunities that transform their social reality, as well as that of their families.

As Luiz, a young man who was a Rede Cidadã student on the Start Programme and is now a full Salesforce developer at Accenture, said: "I can say with total confidence that the Start programme has CHANGED MY LIFE."

All this is only possible thanks to the support of people and companies who, like you, believe in our work to provide opportunities and transform lives. Rede Cidadã is very fortunate to have people and companies who share the same vision of improving the living conditions of people who are socially vulnerable.

Take the opportunity to read our latest newsletter on the importance of contributing to quality education, in which we hear from users and companies that support our projects, as well as to visit our website and find out more about our programmes and projects and meet our partners.

Thank you for your support!

Lab Lagoa da Prata

Lab Rio de Janeiro

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