Arco offers basic education to over 140 children aged 1 to 4 on a daily basis, through the support of the department of education of São Paulo.
The project offers half day supplementary care from Monday to Friday for children aged 5 to 6 attending the public kindergarten. The classes enhance the children’s personal and social development through care, playful activities and interaction.
Thanks to partial funding by the city secretary for social security of São Paulo, Arco supports over 360 children aged 6 to 15 on a daily basis. These activities take place in addition to public education and, thus, only provides classes half days. There is a strong focus on the development of the individual potential and independence as well as on the strengthening of family and social bonds.
With the aid of partial funding by the city secretary for social security, Arco looks after 60 teenagers aged 15 to 18. The goal of this program is to get the youths to discover their own personality as well as the personality of others. Moreover, the teenagers learn to value their impact within the society. The project tries to realize those goals through different themes, techniques and activities, such as art, music and sports classes. In addition, the environment of the individuals shall be taken into account at all times.
This project helps over 40 women to discover their own potential and to take advantage of it. Each group member participates in craft workshops and different programs dealing with self-realization.
This project provides immediate help for people in need. In addition families are supported and offered tools that enable them to escape their precarious situation.
Main Goal: Help children and teenagers from the age of 6 to 17 years and 11 months to develop competences and skills by offering courses in Portuguese, maths and digital education. We want to help children reduce the knowledge gap caused by the pandemic and improve their school performance with the aim to contribute to people’s education and their future professional and academical lives.