Mais Caminhos

Mais Caminhos

Welcome to Mais Caminhos: Empowering Youth Near Ipanema

The underprivileged children's and teenagers' lives near Ipanema, Brazil, are the main focus of Mais Caminhos, a motivating project. This program is backed up by Caminhos Language Centre and builds on the empathetic legacy of an old orphanage, Casa do Caminhos.

Our Focus After the Casa do Caminhos orphanage was closed down in 2012, Mais Caminhos started paying attention directly to the support of the local young generation. We concentrate our work on the communities located around Ipanema to ensure its significance.

What We Do To foster the youths in this area, we have come up with several programs:

Community Action: This involves ‘Caminhos in Action’ where we call upon volunteers who work towards making homes better places by renovating them, beautifying public places and upgrading facilities.

Teaching and Learning Support: In order to enhance academic performance among children from poor backgrounds we offer coaching services, after-school classes as well as an intensive English course which can create new opportunities for them in future.

Life Experience: By now more than 27 kids have benefited through being taken for exchange programs in Europe since its initiation. Such visits widen their minds while fostering personal development within themselves.

Family Help: We intervene with basic needs like sheltering, feeding or paying fees that would stabilize families thus creating suitable environments for effective learning during education times also.

Recreational Camps: During holidays when schools are closed; our camps combine fun with teaching thereby enabling socialization among students besides utilizing their free times productively.

All these would not have been achieved were it not for international volunteers who give much in terms of service towards realizing success in every program.

To provide tools useful for successful life building of community youth, we have ongoing endeavors whose purpose is availing necessary resources and opportunities.

Please support us by either visiting our site if this mission touches your heart or making donations; as well spreading info wider through volunteering among other ways possible so as not only them but many more like them can benefit from what we have established here