“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 Rural Management course provided by the Growing-Up Right Institute, I learned about new technologies for the farm, so I researched deeply into sustainable energy matters. This made me conclude that solar energy would be beneficial because it reduces electricity costs, impacting on production benefits and on family expenses. In the final course project, I planned the acquisition of solar panels, which represent a sustainable, economical form of energy, thus helping the family with reducing electricity expenses, whilst promoting an improvement to the efficiency of the tobacco curing barns. As soon as the course came to a close, I and my family started to get our ideas off the paper and we purchased the panels, which have already been installed and are now in operation.
To me, the experience of a young apprentice of the Growing-Up Right Institute was incredible, both for acquiring more knowledge about rural areas and rural activities, and for having made new friends. Equally, my way of looking at the rural scenario, in general, improved considerably. The activities of the course resulted into nice dialogs with my family on questions related to the potentialities of the farm and possible improvements, as there were production issues I ignored, and the course played an essential role for me to learn about new possibilities that could be put into practice in the farm. I also realized that rural areas offer good chances for young people, provided there is dedication and the search for new knowledge”.
Alefe Corrêa, 16, was an apprentice in 2023 in the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing-Up Right Institute.