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Stay up to date with the latest updates and discover everything that is happening at Growing Up Right Institute!

We are constantly developing innovative educational programs to empower young people in the field.

  • Sustainability is the highlight of the 8th Annual Meeting of the Young Rural Apprentices

    Event brought together apprentices and former students of the Growing Up Right Institute with the aim to exchange experiences and launch an e-book produced by the groups.


  • Day against child labor: more than thousand reasons to celebrate

    Day against child labor: more than thousand reasons to celebrate With an innovative format, Growing Up Right Institute fights child labor offering a professional qualification program to adolescents in the rural setting. June 2024 – The 12th of June, very remembered as […]


  • Growing Up Right Institute approaches members for an online debate on child labor

    July 2022 – With the theme focused on “Child labor: care, welcome and protection”, the Growing Up Right Institute, on Thursday July 7, promoted the fifth edition of the comprehensive integration and reflection seminar for partners of the Rural Professional Learning […]


  • Child labor and tobacco: achievements and challenges

    World Day Against Child Labor – Being part of the solution. Since 1998, the tobacco sector has been promoting the much needed debate and implemented programs aimed at fighting child labor in the rural setting. At the end of the 1990s, initiatives […]


Stories

Youth and the countryside. This is the common denominator of the young apprentices at Growing Up Right Institute. Everything else is singular and peculiar. Respecting differences and providing personal growth is at the heart of the Rural Professional Learning Program and all of the Institute's initiatives. Discover the stories of those who have a lot to say about the experience of experiencing other worlds and new opportunities.

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    Maturation and development

    “As farmer and rural producer, I have always lent support to my children in their choices and wished them success. When the opportunity emerged for teenagers to be apprentices at the Growing-Up Right Institute, we encouraged the youngest of my three children to enroll in the course and he ended up lucky enough to attend the course for two years[…]”

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    Humanitarian Action

    “For some years we lived in Agudo and Rio Grande do Sul is in my heart, because it was the place where I stopped being a kid and matured. After the death of my stepfather and after concluding the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management course, my mother and I moved back to Florianópolis, where our family members live.[…]”

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    Innovative experience

    “My experience at the Growing Up Right Institute is innovative, keeping away from what used to my professional job as a Social Assistant. Spending time with the apprentices and the identification of their realities have been inspiring. […]”

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    Locally and globally

    “Although living in the interior of São Lourenço do Sul, I work as an IT support technician for a multinational company and every day I serve customers from Germany. My trajectory towards my professional international services is based on the formal study at school and university, and by holding in high esteem our countryside culture, especially the languages our ancestors spoke: Pomeranian and German. […]”

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    Agro is everything

    Fábio de Bastos Bastos @fabio_bastos9 Agro is everything “With the certainty that it is possible to prosper in agro, I am planning to build my life based on rural activities. I believe that the rural sector will continue to be […]

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    From apprentice to educator

    Educadora Vanessa Beise @vanessabeisee   “To me, to be an educator at the Growing Up Right Institute is a dream come true. I am very proud of my trajectory in the Institute, because I was a rural apprentice in 2016 […]

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    Double pride

    “I have many reasons for being proud of my daughters: they are marvelous, polite, charismatic, devoted and focused on their studies. They are also responsible and have reached maturity, because they know what they want and where to go. For […]

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    United in entrepreneurial activities

    “I am very proud of my daughter, because she is a very polite girl, focused on what she wants, mature, strong and with entrepreneurial spirit. To all this, the Growing Up Right Institute contributed a lot, making it possible for […]

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    Mother’s love to overcome problems

    “My husband and I had a dream of adopting a child, and we listened to hour heart and chose Renan. He is a charming boy, endowed with skills, and demonstrates to have a very kind heart. Waking up every morning […]

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    Solar energy on the farm

    “The electric energy used on my farm is now generated by the solar panel system. The idea to implement the solar panel system came from the high costs of electrical energy. Therefore, in my project stemming from the Entrepreneurship and […]

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Our Programs

We present the transformative programs of Growing Up Right Institute, developed especially to boost the potential of young people in the field.

  • Rural Professional Learning Program

    The Rural Professional Learning Program is a pioneer in offering professional learning without leaving the field or school, training teenagers in the rural management and entrepreneurship course. During one year of the course, young people are hired as apprentices by companies in the tobacco sector that are members and supporters of Growing Up Right Institute.

  • Us for Them Program – The female voice from the countryside

    Addressing gender issues in rural areas and promoting greater awareness of the role of women are central objectives of the Us for Them Program – The feminine voice of the countryside, a partnership between the Growing Up Right Institute and the University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC).

  • Entrepreneurship Good Practices for Education Program

    Believing that knowledge must be shared and that teachers are fundamental to promoting learning, Growing Up Right Institute develops the Good Practices Program.

  • Graduate Monitoring Program

    As learning is forever, so is being part of Growing Up Right Institute. Therefore, the Institute continues to offer learning and leadership opportunities to young graduates, through the Graduate Monitoring Program, with opportunities for leadership, improvement and carrying out projects.

  • Each young person we support is a seed of change, capable of driving growth and sustainable development in the countryside.

    Together, we are agents of transformation and builders of dreams.