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Proyecto Casa Quilombo

Project

Proyecto Casa Quilombo

Location

Ecuador, Quito

Target

Proyecto Casa Quilombo aims to create a permanent spacefor Capoeira Angola, which serves as the basis for the generation of social and cultural projects with a focus on human development and group facilitation.

Impact

The ACANNE – EC Foundation, with the different projects and spaces that have been opened for the development of Capoeira Angola, has positioned itself as the first and only social capoeira project, training more than 1500 young people throughout the 17 years. In addition, as an important part in the formation, practice and tradition of Capoeira Angola, four international events have been held with the presence of their Mestre Renè Betancourt. Finally, with Capoeira Angola and other accompanying tools such as Gestalt psychotherapy, social projects have been developed to prevent risk behaviors with young people.

Topics

Marginalised communities

Contact

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ACANNE.Ecuador/

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ABADA CAPOEIRA LA PAZ

Project

Abada Capoeira La Paz

Location

La Paz, Bolivia

Target

Provide access to the knowledge and benefits of capoeira and use this as an inclusion / training tool for good citizens, which in the future will be leaders and community leaders.

Impact

It was established in Bolivia in 2009 by initiating work with the CEIFMA “Centro Educativo Integral Félix Méndez Arcos” as an activity for children and adolescents who, due to their vulnerability and exclusion from society, had psychological problems of low self-esteem that reflected their low school performance reaching desertion or school dropout, apart from always being involved in fights between their peers. The arrival of capoeira to CEIFMA had a very positive response and great acceptance in a short time. Rules and rules of conduct were implemented to be a participant in the classes in which we saw:

• Academic performance at school
• Personal hygiene
• Behavior with the community
• Performance in training

Thanks to that intervention today we have young scholars in the music conservatory, also the case of a young man who plays in the Corintias football team in Sao Paulo in a minor division and continues to train capoeira. Many of the young people of the 2009-generation are parents already, some attend classes depending on their possibilities, they have achieved more than stable life.

Topics

Free4Kids

Marginalised communities

Contact

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/abadacapoeira.bolivia
Facebook page 2: https://www.facebook.com/abada.bolivia/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/abadabolivia/videos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abada_bolivia/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ABADABOL

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Capoeira Angola and Social Inclusion

This project is designed to articulate ties and meetings between public and private organizations and grassroots organizations in the city of Buenos Aires, and to consolidate territorial networks of cooperation to generate knowledge and achieve advocacy in public policies to provide real opportunities for the social reintegration of the vulnerable and excluded population.

Project

Capoeira Angola and Social Inclusion

Location

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Target

To generate community and support networks in the neighborhood of Chacarita. To carry out a therapeutic-artistic accompaniment for socio-economic reinsertion, through artistic and productive workshops and to provide advice in relation to human rights, situations of violence against women and other social problems.

Impact

Capoeira Angola and Social Inclusion aims to help socially vulnerable populations in the neighbourhood of Chacarita. Structural problems to obtain food and decent housing in the neighbourhood are often connected with abusing psychoactive substances.

Topics

Marginalised communities

Contact

Website: https://instructorcamungere.blogspot.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/capoeira_angola_a

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Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/camungere/

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Capoeira Raízes do Brasil – Ensinando com o Berimbau

Project

Capoeira Raízes do Brasil – Ensinando com o Berimbau

Location

Brazil

Target

Social integration of the children in Vargem Bonita community

Impact

The project has created a community where older students take care of the younger ones, helping them with capoeira moves, but also with school work and personal issues. Since to participate in the project, the students need to not have any problems in the school, it is figh

ting for education and against school dropout.

As they keep gender equality in the center of their work, Capoeira Raízes do Brasil also fights against sexism.

Topics

Free4Kids
Marginalised communities

Contact

https://www.facebook.com/RaizesDoBrasilDf/

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Int Union of Capoeira Angola Peru-Pakistan (IUCAPP)

Project

International Union of Capoeira Angola Peru-Pakistan

Location

Peru and Pakistan

Target

Vulnerable populations and youth

Impact

Since December 2016, Amar Latif, fellow in the 2017 Changemakers programme, has been organizing IUCAPP’s activities and plans.

 

The project is focused on two closely connected objectives: 1.) catalysing a Capoeira Angola community in Peru and Pakistan and 2.) provision of a high-quality education in the various elements of the Afro-Brazilian tradition of Capoeira Angola and related professional creative and organisational areas. These objectives and activities are centred on humanist and inclusive principles of providing a diverse and holistic education within the context of safe and shared communal space provided for children at risk from the numerous problems of impoverished and violent living environments.

Topics

Marginalised groups
Free4Kids

Contact

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/IUCAPP/about/

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Escuela Municipal de Capoeira Social

Project

Escuela Municipal de Capoeira Social

Location

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Target

They work with children, youth, their families and the community of San Isidro in the Bajo Boulogne in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Impact

It focuses in the teaching and training of a discipline that has as basic objectives: the development of physical skills and movement of the body, music and philosophy with broad foundations in values. The fact that it is an intense physical activity generates the promotion of well-being. It takes in consideration the physical, mental and spiritual areas to maintain a healthy life.

It is necessary to follow different components of Capoeira to offer the students not only the discipline in an integral way but also the specific specialization in each one of its components, in different stages and according to their interests: Martial Art as itself, the deployment of its dance, acrobatics as an alternative way of development, the learning of music and song related to the discipline, the manufacture of Instruments and the Portuguese language.

The work modality aims to promote and integrate a collective in social Capoeira, that is, a step beyond the practices that are currently being carried out in capoeira schools in other local areas. Installing in San Isidro a modality that is developed through a more basic work experience but with the possibility of training people to be multipliers so they can lead and replicate these processes in different areas. The practice that we have developed in these six years has given us the possibility of expanding every day the number of people who are part of the Capoeira Social project in San Isidro and San Martín.

Topics

Marginalised communities

Contact

https://www.facebook.com/capoeirasocial

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