“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 […]
“After turning 18, I decided to stay in the rural area, in the same activity of my parents, the production of tobacco and corn. Here we lead a calm life and I intend to give continuity to the same agro activity because, with technology and highly valued products, it has become much easier to be successful in the rural area.[…]”
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 […]
“My family provide oranges and bergamots to school meals in Novo Cabrais/RS and, when there are problems that affect the production of these fruits, we use homeopathy to solve the problems.[…]”
“My family provide oranges and bergamots to school meals in Novo Cabrais/RS and, when there are problems that affect the production of these fruits, we use homeopathy to solve the problems. We came to know about this solution when a fruit fly infestation hit our citrus orchard in 2021. My father contacted the local Emater office in search of advice and, on the basis of this contact, we discovered that we could use homeopathy, a medical system based on the belief that the body can cure itself, thus avoiding the need for pesticides. We learned that this technique works in a simple form, and we started to apply homeopathy whenever there it is necessary to correct some imbalance in the production of fruits, legumes and vegetables.
When we were asked at the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management course to prepare a research project, I opted for going deep into the studies on homeopathy when it comes to finding a cure for vegetables, so that I could share my knowledge with the group and the educators.
Although rather unknown, homeopathy is very interesting, it works in people, animals, plants, water and soil and is beneficial to people’s health and to the environment. In plants, for example, if the fruits or vegetables are not growing, there is homeopathy to solve this problem.
At the Annual Meeting of the apprentices, I presented the homeopathy subject to all the 2023 groups, Institute team and supporters. This was possible because the course I took as young apprentice improved my communication capacity. Before joining the course, I was shy, hated to speak in public and I did not like being the center of attention. All this I improved throughout the course, because the activities carried out during the course changed our mind for the better, opened our eyes and transformed us into protagonists of our lives”.
Flaviane Müller Milbradt, 18, was a young apprentice in 2023 at the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing Up Right Institute, in Novo Cabrais (RS). 112%