The main objective of the Open Doors project is to develop a Vincentian Service Center for the population of Rio de Janeiro, offering activities and services focusing on promotion of citizenship, social transformation and social integration of individuals and families.
The project offers a reception area for children from 6 to 10 years old, in situations of social vulnerability, through workshops, aiming at the complete development and the formation of citizenship and solidarity. The activities take place from Monday to Friday in morning shift from 8 to 11:30am and afternoon shift from 1:30 to 5pm. Each shift has a group of 25 kids, totalling 50 kids.
The goal is to ensure the interaction of the community, and social interaction, enabling the creation of the expansion of the children’s both artistic and cultural universe, also stimulating the development of potential skills, abilities and talents.
The idea here is to encourage protagonism, stimulating the participation in the public life of the territory and the development of the skills for critical understanding of social reality and the contemporary world.
The project also offers support, welcoming, and follow-up to the families, using all the instruments provided by the Social Services) aiming an active listening work of the demands in their complexities and multiple social and existential issues.
It is also a goal to transform The Open Doors Project into a reference center in the neighbourhood for the delivery of material to be recycled. Therefore, besides working on environmental preservation awareness, we will make these activities generate resources to help sustain) the institution.
Among the project’s partners are the Vincentian School of the Immaculate Conception, the Cruzeiro School, the Brazilian Red Cross and Compev Company. We also search partners for the mobilization of human resources, stablishing a volunteer network, aiming to diversify the activities to be offered.