“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 […]
“After turning 18, I decided to stay in the rural area, in the same activity of my parents, the production of tobacco and corn. Here we lead a calm life and I intend to give continuity to the same agro activity because, with technology and highly valued products, it has become much easier to be successful in the rural area.[…]”
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 […]
“In 2022, I was an apprentice at the Growing Up Right Institute, which provided me with much knowledge and self-improvement. Perhaps my most important intellectual achievement may have been the importance of partnerships, as they connect everybody in personal and impersonal form. […]”
Clara Drescher Link
@linkclaradrescher
Partnerships lead to accomplishments
“In 2022, I was an apprentice at the Growing Up Right Institute, which provided me with much knowledge and self-improvement. Perhaps my most important intellectual achievement may have been the importance of partnerships, as they connect everybody in personal and impersonal form. At the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management course, we had a perfect idea of how a partnership works, either in performing a simple activity or a more complex one, like a cooperative or a company. To me, a personal partnership is the most important because it is rather related to lending support to a friend or acquaintance, thus establishing connections. A commercial partnership is also very relevant to our business and to the farmers. We are all connected by these mutual co- operations and it is joint work that gives rise to great social enterprises. Moreover, the Growing-Up results from partnerships, and it is an Institute that provides adolescents like us with the incredible opportunity of attending a course as apprentices.
The opportunities of the course were also a great help to us in terms of self-knowledge, in coming to know what we really want, in detecting our potential. It helped me grow and mature. I came to know about the history of my family and made friendships. The year I was an apprentice, I came to grips with many new things and some of them related to technology, to the use of reusable materials and about diversification. Much of this knowledge was acquired during the study trips and visits to partners.
As a daughter of farmers, I have already considered the option of engaging in rural activities, but it is not what attracts me as a life project. To me, the rural area is the best place to live, to have my house and cultivate vegetables, grow fruit trees in an orchard, a small lake and raising pigs, chicken and cattle. I do not imagine leaving the countryside because it is a cozy, calm and harmonious place for both nature and man. However, as a life plan, I am considering two options: the first is to take a Pedagogy Course and the second, an Architecture course.
If I happen to become a teacher, I will try to work in my municipality. If I chose the area of architecture, maybe I will have to work somewhere else, but I intend to keep connected to my locality. At the Learning Course, I realized that young people who opt for agriculture have good chances to succeed, as they are going to rely on help from their parents, right from the beginning, as well as guidance from Emater, Municipal Administrations and from incentive programs. Therefore, these young farmers will grow fast, with access to technology that makes their daily work easier. In addition, agriculture comprises several areas, with diversification possibilities and strategies to boost their income, seeing that if one crop fails, there will always be another one as a guarantee.”
Clara Drescher Link, 17 was a young apprentice in 2022 at the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing-Up Right Institute, in Paraíso do Sul (RS). 112%