The Women´s Bussiness and Professional
Association of São Paulo –
BPW-SP is the eldest in Brazil
(1974). Linked hierachically to the Federation
of Women and Professionals Association of
Brazil BPW-Brasil and abroad to the International
Federation of Business and Professional
Women – BPW- Internacional.
BPW-SP
has as priority actions capable
of promoting qualifications, development
and opportunity for women enabling them
to become entrepeneurs thereby generating
jobs and business , with personal and social
positive reflections. Seeking to amplify
their priorities, BPW-SP established a partnership
with the Association of Support to Infancy
and Adolescesce – OUR PEOPLE
The
Association of Support to Infancy and Adolescence
– OUR PEOPLE, was founded on March
31,s1998 at the General Center of Depots
(Warehouses?) of the State of São
Paulo – CEAGESP, with the specific
objective of suppressing begging and infant
labor that was surrounding São Paulo´s
Depot.OUR PEOPLE work was developed with
the finality of getting children off the
streets offering them educational leisure
englobing notions of hygiene, heath, citizenship
besides helping them with their school activities,
attending at the moment 690 children and
adolescents.
In
February 2003 we started the Pilot
Project “Community with Quality”
with the objective of capacitating the mothers
enrolled in OUR PEOPLE, as well as women
and youngsters in a situation of personal
and social risk from a government residential
group called Cingapura” and slums
surrounding CEAGESP.
During
2003 voluntary work was realized.
The associates of BPW-SP developed workshops
and lectures on health (eating habits, hygine,
sexually transmissible illnesses and family
planning) – environment (garbage,
water, recycling) – work initiation
–( utilization of leftovers). 72 women
were enrolled. Besides these iniciatives
a partnership with the Biossintesis Institute
of Sao Paulo. Biossintesis involves corporal
psycoteraphy with an aim to the integration
of life using as a base the existence of
three fundamental energetic corrents in
the the human organism the vital fluxions
– the muscular, the perception and
the emotional. The psychologists of this
Institute worked with two groups of women
every fifteen days for one hour during this
year.
During
the years 2004 and 2005 besides
lectures and workshops weekly sewing lessons
were developed doing Patchwork.
In
2006 besides lectures, workshops
and Patchwork corporal expression and dancing
was started in order to develop self-esteem.
At
the end of 2006 and beggining of 2007
BPW-SP with na aim in seeking more efficiency
and force in their actions elaborated THE
PROJECT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BPW-SP
COMMUNITY WITH QUALITY with a finality of
professionalizing the women of these communities,
find qualified professionals in the área
and find resources to make the project feasible.
The Project Of Social Responsibility of
BPW-SP COMMUNITY WITH QUALITY is therefore
a structured and organized investment for
women in unfavorable social conditions,
seeking their personal growth and capacitation
for work, propitiating work and revenue
for themselves and for the group to which
they belong, with the following workshops:
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Experimental
Cooking Workshop
-Capacitate the womans group
to elaborate in a practical and hyginic
way food products that they my sell
and in the future organize themselves
in partnerships in order to commercialize
the production in a larger scale.
Recycled Paper Craftmanship Workshop
Capacitate the group of women to recognize
the various types of paper found daily
in their region and to use the proper
technical recycling technique aiming
for creative personal products that
may be commercialized and used by
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Craftership
and Trinkets Workshop using Recycled
Materials -Capacitate the
women as profissional crafters, enabling
them to enroll in SUTACO-SUPERINDENTECY
OF CRAFTERMANSHIP WORK IN COMMUNITIES,
which is an agency of the Secretary
of Work Relations in São Paulo
so that they may participate in craftermanship
fairs promoted by the government of
the State of São Paulo commercializing
their products in order to generate
work and revenue for the community.
Box Craftmanship Workshop |
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Capacitate
the participants in creating craftermanship
pieces in their various techniques
for commercial use, enabling them
to participate in crafthermanship
fairs and bazars inserting them in
the work market with consequent increase
in self-esteem and quality of life. |
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Cooperativism
and Entrepising Workshop -Develop
the capacity of organizing themselves
through the constitution of work cooperatives
in order to develop the productive
potential and revenue, contributing
thereby to their self-esteem, to citicenship
and social insertion. |
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Corporal
Expression Workshop– Dancing–
Self-esteem-Develop motricity
coodernation, spacial perception and
the participants capacity for expression
contributing in an signifying way
to the quality of their social and
professional relationships and in
productivity. Through dancing the
objective is to develop physical capacity
and consenquently prevent illnesses
besides helping in dishinbiting and
regaining their self-esteem. |
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Patchwork
Craftmanship Workshop -Enable
the participants to become craftmanship
semstress specialy using patchwork
in order that they may develop products
that may be sold thereby generating
revenue to their families. Products
such as bags, pan handles, pillows,
t-shirts, table cloths, napkins,etc.
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Once
habilitated the participants of the project
will be incentivated and supported to form
and organize themselves into cooperatives
or other associative forms with the objective
of producing and commercializing craftermanship
and foods establishing thereby complementary
revenue
Awaited
Results and Aims Amongst direct beneficiaries
we expect to attend a total of 470 capacitations
between the women living in Cingapura and
the slums around CEAGESP.
At
the end of the project the following results
are expected: Enrollment in SUTACO as professional
artisans, of at least 90% of the participants
of the Craftermanship and Trinkets Workshop
using Recicled Materials, Craftermanship
Recycled Paper and Craftermanship Boxes.
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The constitution of at least one cooperative
for the production and commercialization
of crafermanship products and one cooperative
for the produiction and commercialization
of food.
São
Paulo 30 de Abril de 2007
Márcia
Kitz
President
of BPW-SP
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Jane
Sampaio Pontes Penteado
Special Advisor of President - Project |
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