Hand in Hand (charity no. 1069976)

CBC University is an after school education project for 350 children living in a favela on the outskirts of Fortaleza, Brazil. This was Hand in Hand's first project and has been supported since the before hand in hand was registered in 1998 of the.

Many children in Brazil drop out of school at an early age and end up on the streets. The University of Life was formed in 1990 to help those living in a slum area of the beach resort town of Fortaleza on the North East coast of Brazil. It currently caters for 350 children living in the local slum and gives them the support they need to develop.

At the University of Life children are given extra education and encouragement to make it through the state system, enabling them to have a better chance of obtaining a job. As well as giving them a good education, the project operates with a Christian ethic, providing a loving and secure atmosphere in which to learn and flourish.

To help prevent the slum children becoming street children this project assists them with their state school homework and offers the children classes in sports, drama, music, English, typing, computing and Christianity. A nutritional meal, dental and medical assistance are also provided along with 'horizon broadening' excursions to the zoo and other areas.

Hand in Hand has assisted CBC University of Life In its efforts to become self sufficient. The project has done this is a number of ways including the formation of an Internet Café for local people to use for research and work and jewellery making for local sale.

Lucilene has been given a future

Meet Lucilene, she is 10 and every single day without fail she asks her teacher at the University of Life to pray for her mother. Read more...

CBC University of Life

A few weeks ago 29 students from CBC University of Life visited the nearby town of Campos Belos, for day of social action and evangelism on the streets and in the houses. Read more...