“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 […]
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 […]
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 of fundamental importance 10 or 20 years from now, and for much longer time, because agro is everything. At the moment, I am in the third grade of high school, and I intend to continue my education, possibly in a college course focused on the rural sector.
I have always loved the rural area and I spot a great potential in the rural setting. Something that made me even more enthusiastic about this path was the fact that I attended the course of the Growing-Up Right Institute, arousing my interest for the achievement of more knowledge and showing things I had never known about agriculture. In the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management course, I acquired several intellectual achievements like, for example, the importance of family farming for the world and especially the high value of the rural setting.
It was as an apprentice at the Growing-Up that I devised the diversification project for my family, at present, producing watermelons. I projected the cultivation of organic vegetables, plan that has already come into force, a fence was installed around the place, along with an irrigation system. The idea is for the vegetable project to start before the end of this year. As we did not have any type of financial incentive, putting the project in practice was more difficult and took longer. However, we are doing our best in the search of a new source of income”.”
Fábio de Bastos Bastos, 17, was a young apprentice in 2023 in the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing Up Right Institute, in Rio Pardo (RS).