PROJECT

The literacy project for women in Maré, “Write Your Future”, started in 2019 and has the challenge of teaching residents who have never established a continuous relationship with school knowledge and learning processes and also guaranteeing the entry and/or resumption of their school trajectories after years of absence from classrooms.

Understanding the importance of breaking down such barriers, the main purposes of the project are to reduce illiteracy rates in Maré, guarantee access to basic education and contribute to the emancipation of these women. More than 200 women have already been impacted by the project and have seen their lives transformed with the opening of new horizons and the recovery of self-esteem.

 

The initiative is a partnership of Redes da Maré, L’Oréal Lancôme and UFRJ’s Integrated Program for Youth and Adult Education.

 

Write Your Future Project | literacy for women in Maré

 

WHAT IS THE PROFILE OF ANALPHABETISM IN MARÉ?

 

 

According to Census Maré, a publication by Redes da Maré, the rates correspond to 6.2% of women aged 15 and over, who cannot read and write, distributed in the 16 favelas of Maré. 

Following an order of divisions by age groups according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE):

• 0,8% of young women between 15 and 19 years old cannot read/write;

• 39% of adult women between 20 and 59 years old cannot read/write.

 

In the population under 55 years of age, illiteracy among women is slightly lower than among men. But from the age of 55 onwards, the relationship is reversed and illiteracy is higher among women. These data show that until the 1960s, while a large portion of the Brazilian population still didn’t have access to literacy, women had even less access than men. This only began to change from the 1970s onwards, when universal access to schooling was definitively placed on the country's agenda.

Regarding the elderly:

• 70 years or older - 37,39% cannot read/write;

• 65 to 69 years - 28,6% cannot read/write;

• 60 to 64 years - 20,4% cannot read/write;

 

Activity of making small autobiographical books with the students, in the class that takes place at the House of Women of Maré, guided by literacy teacher Carla Barreto, in May 2019.

Graduation of the students of the class of 2019 at L'Oréal's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro.

CURRENTLY

 

Today, the literacy classes for women involve a 10-month course and, at the end of it, after a diagnostic evaluation and articulation with the public schools in Maré, the team carries out the referral to one of the schools that serve the Youth and Adults Education modality.

Students enter classes with different levels of literacy, so not all of them complete the process at the same time. The team welcomes these women the following year so that they can continue the literacy process.

Enrollments are carried out at the beginning of the year, usually in the second half of February, and all information is disseminated through the institution's social networks, as well as in sound cars and leafleting throughout the territory.

 

Inaugural Class in March 2022, at Maré Arts Center, marking the return to face-to-face classes.

 

 

The project has 7 classes
located in 6 favelas and divided into different shifts:

 

MORNING CLASSES, MONDAY TO THURSDAY:

• Nova Holanda - Redes Headquarters (R. Sargento Silva Nunes, 1012) - 10am to 12pm

• Vila dos Pinheiros - Headquarters of Redes inside the CIEP Ministro Gustavo Capanema (Via A1), - 8 am to 10 am

• Conjunto Esperança - Association of Residents of Conjunto Esperança (R. Manoel Falcão A. Maranhão, 133-215) - 10 am to 12 pm

• Nova Maré - Herbert Vianna Cultural Canvas (R. Ivanildo Alves, s/nº) - 10am to 12pm

Note: Maré Cultural Canvas is under renovation and classes are being held at Black House of Maré (R. Sargento Silva Nunes, nº 1.016)

AFTERNOON CLASSES, MONDAY TO THURSDAY:

• Parque União - House of Women (R. da Paz, 42) - 2pm to 4pm

• Marcílio Dias Residents Association (Av. Lobo Júnior, 83) - 3pm to 5pm;

 

NIGHT CLASS, MONDAY TO THURSDAY:

• Parque União - House of Women - 7pm to 9pm

The project allows them to resume school life, stimulates self-esteem, self-care and the search for the realization of dormant dreams, in addition to emphasizing the importance of identifying themselves as owners of their destinies, being mothers, wives, professionals and fundamental in our society.

 

 

TESTIMONIALS FROM STUDENTS AND TEACHER OF THE CLASS OF 2019

 

 

Luzinete Antônio

 

Maria Araújo da Silva

 

Maria do Carmo Araújo

 

Ana Claudia Araujo

 

Maré de Notícias #108 - JANUARY 2020

 

 

Ladies of Fate

Educational project offers new horizons to the women of Maré

 

Maré de Notícias #131 - DECEMBER 2021

 

 

A new future, letter after letter

Project seeks to boost women's self-esteem through literacy

 

TEACHERS

 

“In some reports, the students were in search of literacy due to the need to remain in their jobs, because, for them, knowing how to read and write makes it possible to carry out activities and remain working. Thus, their survival or the livelihood of their families were at stake.”

Alcicleia Ramos, 34, literacy teacher

 

"We managed to do a very beautiful job in 2020 and we made sure that the year didn't go blank. We created the WhatsApp group thinking precisely about maintaining the bond with the students and also sending some activities. The group maintained a routine and I believe that both the team and the students learned a lot and strengthened the bonds."

Beatriz de Lima, 24, literacy teacher

 

"It was a great challenge proposed, not only for me as a teacher, but for the students as well. I say challenge because we must have devices that support a good memory, lose the shame in front of the cameras, and to be able to call the attention of these students in a participatory way. Literacy itself needs a watchful eye, monitoring. But our main objective has always been to keep the group, always remembering that this opportunity cannot be left aside, we all have the right to education."

Débora de Oliveira, 56, literacy teacher

 

STUDENTS

 

"I was learning a lot from the classes; I miss it and I really pray to God that this pandemic ends for us to continue our classes. I just have to thank each teacher who passes on the exercises for us to do."

Elaine Alexandre, 58, class of 2019 and 2020, from Conjunto Esperança

 

"For me it's been a blessing! I'm learning more and more, I'm spelling. I already know how to read a little."

Marlí Cândido, 56, class of 2020, from Marcílio Dias

 

"The project for me was very wonderful. I liked it so much that I'm in another school, in the 6th year, I'm already reading. I didn't give up and I won't give up, I'm still going to see my graduation!"

Antônia de Maria, 47, class of 2019, from Conjunto Esperança

 

TEAM

Project Coordination: Edvânia Ferreira Bezerra

General coordinator of the UFRJ Integrated Program: Ana Paula Moura

Educators

Beatriz de Lima Pequeno, Débora de Oliveira Sant’Anna, Maria Cleani da Silva da Costa and Isabela Pereira Braz

 

SPONSOR

Lâncome

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS

UFRJ's Integrated Program for Youth and Adult Education

CONTACT

E-mail: edvania@redesdamare.org.breixoeducacao@redesdamare.org.br

WhatsApp Redes da Maré: +55 (21) 99924-6462

 

HIGHLIGHTS

2022

41 students were literate and more than 20 enrolled in the municipal network to continue school life in the EJA classes. 39 were referred to the psychosocial team of Redes da Maré. | There were 9 extracurricular activities, such as: Visit to the Alzheimer's exhibition at Casa da Ciência/UFRJ; Participation in the week of pedagogy at the Faculty of Education of UFRJ: Round of conversation with undergraduates of the discipline "Teaching practices in EJA" held at the Faculty of Education of UFRJ; Conversation circles with the psychosocial team of the Education axis addressing "Types of violence"; etc. |
Presentation and honorable mention of the work: "The essentiality of the role of the educator in the production of pedagogical material", in the 11th Week of Academic Integration of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (SIAC/UFRJ). See the summary.

2021

Still impacted by the health crisis, the project made use of pedagogical notebooks, which allowed more students to access our pedagogical activities through printed material. | Presentation of the article “Write your Future online: engagement strategies in EJA classes in the context of a pandemic”, at the 9th Brazilian Congress of University Extension (CBEU) | Presentation of the work “Write your Future: literacy project for women from Maré in dialogue with Paulo Freire”, at the Paulo Freire Pre-Colloquium, an extension event of the UFRJ Faculty of Education in partnership with the Paulo Freire Center - Studies and Research. | Presentation of the work “Write your Future in the search for possible didactic approaches in times of pandemic”, at the I Lusophone Digital Seminar in EJA, from the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). | Participation of the students in the National Science and Technology Week (SNCT), in the conversation circle “With the word, the subjects of Youth and Adult Education” at UFRJ, reporting their trajectories in the search for schooling. | 10 students completed the literacy formation and were referred to the municipal network to continue their studies.

2020

Due to the pandemic scenario, face-to-face classes were suspended, prioritizing a follow-up of these students with a routine of pedagogical activities via WhatsApp, in addition to safe information about the world scenario of covid-19, care and monitoring of vaccination, food security, mental health and socio-legal issues.

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2019

Write Your Future reached more than 100 enrolled students, of whom a large part was sent to a regular school to continue their studies after literacy, the result of the beginning of the partnership with the Maré Youth and Adult Education Center (CEJA-Maré). Of the total, 40 students completed literacy training. | Training meetings at the House of Women of Maré, covering topics such as gender, race, the right to public security, access to justice and combating violence against women. | Visit to the exhibitions “Abdias Nascimento, the Art of a Warrior”, at Maré Arts Center (CAM); “Women in the MAR collection” and “Rosana Paulino: A Sewing of Memory” (Rio Museum of Art).

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