“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 […]
Educadora Vanessa Beise @vanessabeisee From apprentice to educator “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 […]
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 and my intellectual achievements changed the path of my future, they led me to the field of Rural Education and now I am a staff member of the Institute’s educational team. The learning course changed my vision about the countryside, which, in the past, was totally distorted and now I cannot see myself living somewhere else. Another enriching experience was the exchange of ideas in the group, whilst coming to know other realities experienced by my classmates. Among a variety of events at the time I was a rural apprentice, of note is the involvement of the community. Along with my friends of neighboring districts, we thought about creating a youth group in Passa Sete and Linha do Rio. The first meeting attracted tens of youths, and it gave rise to a group known as ‘United by the Bridge’ and the group has been growing ever since, and turned into a big family.
The group unites the strength of the rural adolescents and the board of directors has always consisted of very active youths in the locality. At the moment, the president is a graduate from the Institute, Renan Denis de Moura. My parents always advised me to study, as they did not have this opportunity and always did their best to make it possible for me and my sister to go to school. When we had the opportunity for a Rural Education course at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), my parents encouraged us to take the course. We went through a selection process, and myself and a classmate of mine passed the test. It was a magic moment, it looked as everything fits perfectly, as if I needed the Growing Up Right Institute to open my eyes and, right after, the opportunity arose for me to register for College Classes that comprised exactly the same subject.
When I graduated from college, the idea to become a social educator at the Growing Up Right Institute grew in my mind. Since the beginning when I fell in love with my work, so humane, which involves so many sentiments, I saw that it was my place, the only thing I did not know was when it would happen. There is a saying that declares that everything happens at the right time. This is what happened, again showing that there is a definite purpose for everything. A vacancy arose in the municipality of Vera Cruz, which is not very far from where I live and, after several selection steps, when I was called, it took hours to believe, it was one more dream come true and much faster than I had expected”.
Vanessa Beise, social educator at the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing-Up Right Institute. She was a young apprentice of the first group of the Institute, in Candelária (RS), in 2016, and she has a graduate degree in Rural Education from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM).