“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 […]
Atualmente, eu e meu namorado, Leonardo, estamos focados no cultivo de tabaco para juntar recursos e investir em uma estufa de morangos e tomates.
“Atualmente, eu e meu namorado, Leonardo, estamos focados no cultivo de tabaco para juntar recursos e investir em uma estufa de morangos e tomates. Decidimos isso porque percebemos a grande procura por esses produtos na região. Como nós dois somos filhos de agricultores, já sabíamos que trabalhar no meio rural não é fácil, mas é uma ótima opção pra quem quer ser independente. Para mim, a melhor vida que uma pessoa pode ter é viver no interior. E, se o produtor souber aproveitar, tem várias opções de culturas que podem ser lucrativas. E nós já estamos construindo nossa casa na localidade de Vila Botucaraí, onde vamos morar e seguir nas atividades rurais.
Há quatro anos, fiz o curso de gestão e empreendedorismo como jovem aprendiz do Instituto Crescer Legal, que foi inesquecível porque encontrei a oportunidade de poder valorizar o que tinha na minha propriedade e foi nessa época que saí da minha área de conforto. O curso me mostrou que sempre devo aproveitar as oportunidades que aparecem, ser quem eu sou e expressar minha opinião. Após a formatura no Crescer Legal, fiz um curso técnico em agronegócio com estágio em uma agropecuária, onde coloquei meus conhecimentos em prática e tive mais interação com pessoas e clientes.”
Mariana Machado, 19 anos, foi jovem aprendiz em 2018 do Programa de Aprendizagem Profissional Rural do Instituto Crescer Legal em Candelária (RS).