“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 […]
“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. […]”
Michele de Cássia Dzindzny
Innovative experience
“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. With a great exchange of intellectual achievements with the young, everything is construction. It is just like the life experiences I take to them, they bring their experiences to me, resulting into a generous exchange of knowledge.
I see that, to the young apprentices, there has been a positive impact since the very first day of the course, starting with the meetings in circular form, differing from traditional classrooms. Equally, since the beginning, the apprentices were impacted by the methodology that differs completely from the classical system of the schools, with the focus on personal fulfillment and encouraging them to be protagonists. Another characteristic of the course is to bring together theory and practice, with external activities and pedagogical visits, always with the aim to improve the knowledge of the apprentices.
I also realize that the young apprentices feel that they are held in high esteem because it is a course specific for young rural adolescents, where they have an active voice about what is really happening in the farms and communities. They have a sense of belonging, a perception we did not have before the course of the Institute started here in São João do Triunfo. Therefore, they value highly the rural environment, have an opportunity to talk about their experiences and life experiences in the places where they live and think about improvements. I observe the pride they express when talking about their communities, respect for agriculture and show that they are aware of the opportunities in the rural setting. To us, a small municipality whose flagship is agriculture, where tobacco farming prevails, the Institute represents new opportunities for rural adolescents”
Michele de Cássia Dzindzny, social educator at the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing-Up Right Institute, in São João do Triunfo (PR). She has a graduate degree in Social Service