“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 […]
“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 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 them to become the persons they are now, the Growing-Up Right Institute helped us a lot during the girls’ adolescence, an important phase in their development. It was through the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management Program that they got interested in an agricultural career and now they are in the third semester of the Agronomy Course at the University of Santa Cruz do Sul. Furthermore, during their time as young apprentices, Mariana and Juliana stopped being shy girls and got used to communicate with other people. The course of the Institute also collaborated towards acquiring the capacity to manage a rural farm and how to improve it and go in search of novelties for extra income options.
As mother, I always support them in the best manner possible, with an eye on their wellbeing and helping with their choices. I wish the best for them. I wish them success, a brilliant future, taking advantage of the opportunities that emerge and happiness in the jobs they opted for. In my family, we always advise the children to follow the right path, with humility and simplicity, without looking down on anyone, never thinking they are better than others, thus living in harmony with other people. As agronomists, I hope they will be successful and capable of seeking innovations that contribute towards a good performance both in our farm and in the municipality and region. While they are taking the graduation course they are trying to find out with which activity sector they identify themselves for a specialization in a postgraduate course in the future, as agronomy comprises a vast area. On the opposite shift of their classes at the University, they devote time to our farm, always enriching the activities with new knowledge”.
Josimeri Geisibel Priebe Abich, mother of the twins Mariana Márcia Abich and Juliana Julia Abich, who were young apprentices in 2022 at the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing Up Right Institute, in Paraíso do Sul (RS).