“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 […]
“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. […]”
Gisleia Blank
@gisleia_simone
Locally and globally
“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. Initially, I was a German teacher, and as time went by, I added my job to the information technology area in niches where there was need for communication in German. I perceive that local knowledge and culture are highly valued in the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management course offered by the Growing-Up Right Institute, which a nephew of mine is attending as rural apprentice.
The way they stimulate the different personal development fronts of the young apprentices is very positive, like visits to museums and research institutions, with the focus not only on social culture but on rural culture, too. Knowledge is what keeps young people aware of the fact that there are chances good enough for them to stay in the rural area. There are multiple opportunities for success without leaving the rural environment. For a long time, the farmers themselves used to ‘wear the mantle of inferiority”, stereotype of a countryside person. It had to be changed.
Now, with joy I see people attending courses, studying and starting enterprises in the interior, from their own production to rural tourism and services. Small rural businesses are now valued, even by the farmers themselves, who have come to grips with the situation, shedding the myth that the ‘countryside’ offers no opportunities. I think that every type of qualification is important and there are qualifications that can be acquired without a college course. Examples include drone management and other technologies, efficient cultivation techniques and aptitudes that improve the farm and its surroundings. Young people who are able to look beyond the normal things, with an education geared toward culture and history, by using this knowledge will have something that could improve the place where they live, not in the sense of ascension, but quality.”
Gisleia Blank,lives in the interior of São Lourenço do Sul (RS), is an IT technician and serves customers from Germany. She is filled with enthusiasm when it comes to the Growing Up Right Institute, as it is an institution that encourages young people to spot opportunities in the countryside