Nilce

Belo Horizonte (Nilce)

We continue to support Nilce who is the head teacher of a state secondary school in Belo Horizonte.

Our support enables her to provide extracurricular teaching in music and dance. The money pays for a percussion teacher and a dance teacher. Pedraviva gives £200 monthly towards the expenses of this work. Any surplus money is put in a savings account and is used to repair damaged instruments, buy school clothes or hampers for families. Nilce is able to offer extracurricular activities to over 100 children. Nilce’s role is changing as she considers taking early retirement from teaching, and devote her time to working more fully with the abused and disadvantaged children from Belo Horizonte’s many favelas (shanty towns). Nilce has won many national awards for her work, and is highly regarded by Brazilian government and local authorities. We hope and pray that we can work towards Nilce taking on a bigger role in our organisation, and being our main contact for Pedraviva Brazil.

Nilce writes: "Since the project began, many children who had behaviour problems in school have been changed. As they learn percussion, they are taughtgood manners, moral values, personal hygiene and how to be good citizens. he idea is that through music the children won't get involved in drugs, which iscommonplace in the locality. They are now happier, enjoy doing their homework and are excited when they have the opportunity to perform outside the school they have taken part in shows, conventions, conferences, inaugration ceremonies and cultural events."