After School Hours (Matthew's Portrait)
Photo by Richard Manuel, Calgary - CANADA.
posted by CARF Brazil at 2:42 am
Saturday, November 12, 2005
About Me
- Name: CARF Brazil
- Location: Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil
CARF Brazil, was established by Gregory J. Smith in São Paulo in 1993. Gregory had already established The Children At Risk Foundation – CARF Norway in 1992, to benefit the street children of Brazil by defending their rights and offering them a dignified solution so that they could live and grow within a family-oriented context and healthy social environment. The knowledge gained during the last decade guided Gregory to create a Street Migration Prevention Programme. Due to its success, CARF had to seek new solutions to cope with growing demands and in 2001 The Hummingbird Arts & Cultural Activity Centre became a reality, allowing CARF to expand its capacity from 80 children and young people to more than 2000 today. An important development in 2007 was the establishing of a new Brazilian NGO, The Hummingbird Cultural Network (RCBF - Rede Cultural Beija-Flor), to cater for a network of community prevention centres implemented during the next few years and led by youth entrepreneurs trained at Hummingbird. By the end of 2012 we will have four community prevention centres up and running...
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- Girl with Drawing of a Heart
- Buddhism in Burma
- Os donos dos pezinhos
- Play, children play!
- Girls
- Contrasted faces
- The Little Beggar's Smile
- Monks With Guns!
- b l o k e s. . .VIII
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- “Mental Picture” by Tim Hetherington
- Ami Vitale – Photographer Par Excellence
- Tatiana Cardeal (:)<[o]=
- The Invisibles
- The Electronic Intifada
- Brazilian Photos by Pedro Martinelli
- Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs
- Ashoka Brasil
- Millennium Development Goals
- State of the World’s Children - 2004
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Children At Risk Foundation - CARF
Estr. Pedreira Alvarenga 2343/9
Eldorado, 09971-340 Diadema - SP
São Paulo - BRASIL
Tel.(55)(11)4049 4440
(55)(11)4047 2231
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