The Água de Beber Project is responsible for acquiring resources to be invested in social work projects with the focus on young kids and adolescents that live in dangerous and poverty conditions. The resources acquired are also used in cultural projects that include research of the Afro Brazilian Culture and the creation of plays, shows, afro dance lessons, percussion workshops, instruments workshops, music and capoeira. One of the major areas of the project is the community of the Riacho Doce, located at 20 km of Fortaleza. The community of Riacho Doce has a large number of families living in a precarious situation, and suffering from an amount of different problems like a high number of unemployment, untreated illnesses, and dangerous living situations, lack of basic needs like sanitation and garbage treatment. This problems can really harm the education of this kids, so based on that, the Água de Beber was idealized viewing the rescued of this kids citizenship, with the main purpose of expanding to other locations that have the same needs.
Capoeira today has conquered the recognition of historians, teachers, and a lot of other professions. You can find capoeira in almost all the gyms, community centers, pre-schools, public and private schools and universities throughout the whole country and also spread out through a lot of other countries now.Capoeira encompasses a number of complex movements that can create great experiences to the students, like the development of new abilities, equilibrium and coordination. Is an excellent display of the Brazilian culture and is of great assistance in building the intelligence and positive behavior on these kids. Capoeira can also offer a great contribution in the psychomotor development and the socialization of the individual. With based on this concepts, the Água de Beber Project utilizes capoeira as an incentive for this kids education and their integration in the society. Also creating, plays, musicals, and shows that contain capoeira, maculelê, afro dance, percussion, and other displays of the Afro Brazilian culture. We are working today with very simple resources without the help of any major entity. The gathering of efforts and the sensibility with these social problems, especially regarding the minors in poverty situations, are essential to the growth and maintenance of the project here presented.
We understand that CAPOEIRA can help rescue this kids and paint a future with brighter colors for them, so we are requesting your support so we can continue with the Água de Beber Project propitiating its expansion to enclose a larger numbers of supported children and to implant a team of coordination for better accompaniment of the children, formed by a general coordinator, one pedagogue, psychologist and four instructors.