“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[…]”
“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.[…]”
“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. […]”
“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. […]”
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
Entre as produções da minha propriedade, estão as verduras, que são cultivadas na época em que as lavouras estão cobertas por aveia e trigo, quando não há trabalho intenso no tabaco nem na soja
“Entre as produções da minha propriedade, estão as verduras, que são cultivadas na época em que as lavouras estão cobertas por aveia e trigo, quando não há trabalho intenso no tabaco nem na soja. O início do plantio de verduras e legumes ocorreu em 2018, quando surgiu uma empresa na nossa região prometendo alta rentabilidade e toda a vizinhança daqui do distrito Solidez começou a plantar, inclusive minha família. Compramos mudas de brócolis, couve-flor, repolhos e beterrabas num viveiro e cultivamos. Mas o negócio não foi lucrativo e então, meus pais começaram a produzir e vender por conta própria na localidade, para professoras e em um mercado local, onde se troca por insumos para a propriedade e alimentos para os animais. Por isso, quando recebi a tarefa de criar um projeto empreendedor no curso do Instituto Crescer Legal, pensei em produzir as próprias mudas de verduras para reduzir o custo de aquisição, especialmente pelo transporte, pois o viveiro fornecedor fica no outro lado da cidade, a 20 quilômetros de distância. Fiz o levantamento do que precisaria comprar em substratos, adubos, telas, lonas e sombrite e concluímos que era viável. A intenção é implantar o projeto de canteiros de mudas assim que for possível e eu vou ficar muito feliz se der tudo certo conforme o meu planejamento porque vou ter minha própria venda de verduras. Essa será uma das heranças das aprendizagens do curso do Instituto, que nos proporcionou 10 meses de muitos conhecimentos sobre o meio rural e sobre a vida.”
Marina Knabach Voigt, 15 anos, foi jovem aprendiz em 2022 do Programa de Aprendizagem Profissional Rural do Instituto Crescer Legal em Canguçu (RS).