“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 […]
“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[…]”
Pai Elton Werner
Maturation and development
“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, because of the pandemic the contract was extended. What makes us really happy is the fact that, along with learning about entrepreneurship and rural management, Daniel experienced great development in terms of emotional and behavioral maturation. It used to be difficult for him to relate to others and he was shy, but with group work, study trips, living with colleagues, his socialization side improved considerably.
After he course, Daniel got a job as a school monitor trainee in the Municipal Administration of Herveiras. At present, 18 years old, he is taking a Technical Course in Computer Science at the University of Santa Cruz do Sul, an area for a possible job position in the future. What he learned at the course held by the Growing-Up Right Institute was important for his life because the tasks and activities led him to reflect on future options as executer of life projects.
For our farm, the course was equally relevant because Daniel used to bring knowledge, especially about topics related to the environment, value of agriculture, future of the agro and diversification. Between the beginning and the end of the course, a great difference in maturation could be seen in Daniel, as he learned a lot of things, made friends and began to talk more at home. He likes the course very much and missed it when it came to an end”
Elton Werner, father of graduate Daniel da Silveira Werner, of the 2020/2021 group of the Rural Professional Learning Program run by the Growing Up Right Institute, in Herveiras (RS).