Human
Rights Training
The employees of Casa de Passagem,
who work directly with the children and adolescents
supported, are trained in Human Rights, with the objective
to improve the service provided to the public, and
to enable Casa de Passagem´s employees to train
community leaders and Adolescent Multipliers of Information
(AMIs).
During
the last qualifications training session twenty-eight
professionals from CP were trained by Wellington Martins,
lawyer and specialist in community therapy. The class
lasted for 32 hours in total, broken into eight sessions
of four hours each. The history and conception of human
rights was the focus of the inaugural class.
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| Casa de Passagem invited thirty
potential community leaders (their communities had been
contemplated by the project), as well as the leaders
that were currently involved to discuss the Passage
to Life Project and the training on social and cultural
human rights.

Work Group with Community Leaders
Of
these community leaders, 79% were women, 55% were students,
39% are married, 42% were single, 79% had children,
90% had proper housing, 45% did not have basic sanitation,
55% were the heads of their family, 22% were unemployed,
42% were employed, 49% recieved less than minimum wage,
49% receive until a minimum wage, 70% had average education.
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With training,
these youth become Adolescent Multiplyers of Information
(AMIs). Not only do they disseminate information on
sexuality/health, gender, citizenship, environment,
but they also construct a new vision of world, with
a deeper sense of responsibility and of social belonging.
They develop socio-political protagonism in their communities.
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