Yoga Fundação Casa
To bring consciousness and quietness to detained young women to be able to guide their lives towards the productive side of society.
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Informação de Contato
Title
MS.
First name
Renata
Last name
Broglia Mendes
Your job title
Coordenadora do projeto Yoga
Name of your organization
Ciyma
Organization type
Business
Annual budget/currency
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Localização
Project Street Address
Project City
São Paulo
Project Province/State
SP
Project Postal/Zip Code
Project Country
Brasil
Sua ideia
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Outros
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Yoga&Meditação
What approach does your initiative incorporate?
Knowledge/educational materials
Year the initiative began (yyyy)
2002
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Barrier
Social stigmas and prohibitions
Insight
Visibility multiplies participation
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Dê um nome ao seu projeto
Yoga Fundação Casa
Describe Your Idea
To bring consciousness and quietness to detained young women to be able to guide their lives towards the productive side of society.
INOVAÇÃO
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence?
To bring consciousness and quietness to detained young women to be able to guide their lives towards the productive side of society.
How many people does your innovation serve or plan to serve? Exactly who will benefit?
In December, there were 20 girls practicing yoga in the unity of Mooca, where we have 56 young women. The beneficiaries of this innovation are the own girls that practice, Those who do not practice are now in a lighter environment, and the staff also benefits as they can better deal with them.
Do you have any existing partnerships? If so, please list and describe.
We have partners (individuals) that contribute with donation to event and materials, and volunteers that teach daily classes for the young women.
In which sector do these partners work? (Check all that apply)
How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing?
Counting on at least one volunteer per day, we have yoga classes from Monday to Friday, from 7,30am to 8pm. Partnering with the Foundation itself, we organize that the young girls will be there for class at time to enjoy it. All volunteers organize themselves to assure that classes happen, substituting each other, if necessary. Yoga in prisons make the rates of depression, anxiety, and stress to significantly reduce among the practitioners. Besides, it provides an ethical and moral standard for these young women who often do not receive it at home. They review their lives, accepting it and discover talents that might change their lives through self-consciousness.
Impacto
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact
Generates consciousness and human development for detained young women
What does impact/success look like? Please list any tangible measures of the impact of your innovation
The results are measured at the moment, right after the practice, through a light, more optimistic behavior of the girls. The feedback from the Behavior Coordination is that they improve their manners considerably inside the Casa, especially during fights. In the long-run, the young women leave the Casa and do not return, or seek support to study and find jobs.
Is there a chance that your project could change policy (within an institution or government)?
This initiative change significantly the institution’s views in relation to alternative therapy, as it does show results.
Aside from financial sustainability, how do you plan to grow the initiative or expand your intended impact?
The expansion of this initiative would be to help after the reclusion period, with psychological support, as the depression rate after they leave the Fundacao Casa is high, with technical courses and with scholarships to get into the labor market, as well as to keep the practice of yoga to keep them focused on their objectives.
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SUSTENTABILIDADE
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)?
The initiative is funded whenever needed via donation of close people. It could be funded in the future by companies and NGOs that focus on social inclusion, providing study scholarships and employment opportunities for these young women that showed commitment with internal change.
Financing source
Annual budget
None
Annual revenue generated
None
Number of staff (full-time, part-time, volunteers)
There are five volunteers, one of these is the coordinator. They work once a week for 30-40 minutes.
What are the main barriers to financing your initiative, and how do you plan to address these barriers?
At the moment we don’t have any major financial obstacle. If there would be resources for this project, we could improved with more equipment, more information and through readings, or even to pay for the volunteer work.
What are the major challenges with regards to partnerships?
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A História
What stage is your project?
Ongoing project .
What was the motivation or defining moment that led to create this innovation? Tell us the story.
Since young, I would like to engage in volunteer work. I started practicing yoga at CIYMA and saw that there was a possibility to teach yoga at Fundação Casa, ex-Febem. At first, I could not since I was studying at Business School. In the following year, I changed my schedule at university and went to seek how these classes would work, whether I would be afraid of, etc. I fell in love with it, I met young women that are more underprivileged than aggressive, and in their eyes they only seek an opportunities. Then I decided to join the project. After six months, Márcio de Luca, the creator of this project at the Mooca unit, ask me to take on the project as she was lacking time. Since 2003, I have been coordinating this project, organizing the volunteers, events and donations, together with the coordination of volunteering work at this unit. Today, she teaches classes in yoga centers as well as private classes, using yoga as an ayurvedica medicine, since she is a therapist in the area.
Please tell us about the social innovator behind this initiative
Since her childhood, Renata was interested in issues related to the Eastern Culture. Her love for travel led her to travel around various countries and live abroad several times. Bachelor in Business, she turned her career to social MKT &the study of yoga. After working as a volunteer of Fundacao Casa, she took Yoga as her lifestyle&profession. Her life goal is to help people in their human development, mainly low income people.
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22 – 26
 | 169 weeks agoPaula Gonçalves said: As atividades desenvolvidas pela Fundacão Casa, ex-Febem, têm um trabalho com mulheres bem bacana. Eu já estive lá jogando basquete com ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 171 weeks agoBen Gucciardi said: Hi Renata, This looks like a wonderful program, and I believe yoga and meditation are such an important link between the internal ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 172 weeks agoAngela Bernardes said: Hi Renata. Your iniciative is really interesting specially because you are working on the development of the self-steem and ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 172 weeks agoRicardo Prado said: Changemakers Featured Commentator - Brazil As everyone may well know, Brazil has had immense difficulty dealing with crime and ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 174 weeks agoJulia Forlani said: Olá Renata. Parabéns pela iniciativa. Ela é maravilhosa! Indo bastante na linha do que a Renata perguntou, queria saber se existe ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 174 weeks agoRenata Affonso said: Oi, Renata! Idéia muito interessante. Você pensa em formar as meninas em instrutoras de yoga ou utilizar a yoga como "gancho" para os ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 174 weeks agoRenata Broglia Mendes submitted this idea. |
| 174 weeks agoRenata Broglia Mendes said: Oi Alice!! Que bom que você gostou!! Esse trabalho é muito especial para mim, me nutre a alma. Ja tem um projeto em andamento com ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 174 weeks agoAlice Gismonti said: Oi Renata, gostaria de convidá-la a participar do grupo brasileiro aqui no Gamechangers. Basta clicar em "Brazil", no menu lateral ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |
| 174 weeks agoAlice Gismonti said: Oi Renata! Obrigada por sua inscrição! Sem dúvida, a Yoga é um instrumento poderoso para apoiar qualidade de vida das meninas, ... about this Competition Entry. - leia mais > |