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Services aimed at children and adolescents, from early childhood onwards, meet the local needs of the communities where they are located, in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Thus, they have specific actions, ranging from the promotion of after school hours to child and family care.

SEFRAS Criança – Peri, located in Jardim Peri Alto, in the far north of São Paulo, works with 120 children and adolescents (6 to 16 years old) in the after school hours and offers workshops, conversation circles, cultural tours and participatory activities with themes linked to politics, society, citizenship, culture and sport.

It also promotes the strengthening of family and community connections by bringing parents, family members and guardians closer to the spaces for discussion and deliberation of the service for the construction and constitution of the Regional Forum for the Defense of the Human Rights of Children and Adolescents

A work similar to that of Peri is carried out in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, in Vila São José. The Franciscan Service for Living with Children and Adolescents – Gente Viva is a pedagogical work aimed at 120 children and adolescents (4 to 18 years old). Based on activities carried out in workshops, its objective is to make the participants themselves awaken to their potential and to their creative and productive capacities, based on the context in which they live and, thus, to be able to develop an awareness of political participation, defense and fight for rights and dignity.

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The São Gabriel and Santa Clara de Assis Children's Centers, both in Duque de Caxias, welcome and care for 55 children (0 to 4 years old) in protected and healthy environments. The actions carried out in the centers enable a dignified childhood with their families, who participate and collaborate in this process through meetings, workshops, parties and other cultural and leisure activities, in an extremely vulnerable area.