Dorcas serves children and adolescents aged 4 to 18, Monday through Saturday, offering activities that stimulate learning, social interaction, and strengthening of family and community bonds. The program is especially aimed at young people in situations of social vulnerability, seeking to transform challenges into opportunities for growth.
What we offer
Education
Support for literacy and reading, with school guidance offered in a playful and creative way.
Culture
Since 2017 Dorcas maintains the Music in the Neighborhood Project through the Cultural Incentive Law, in addition to other artistic activities.
Ensemble Simul
Recorder and Early Music Group. Currently 6 adolescents, volunteer teachers and guest musicians participate.
Technology
Robotics, basic programming and computer science content, providing digital inclusion.
Sports
We promote and encourage physical health through educational circuits, soccer, athletics, and capoeira.
Youth Impulse
Essential courses for first employment, such as finance, marketing, entrepreneurship and more.
Citizenship, Rights and Duties
We address topics such as civil and political rights, environmental care and others.
Pastoral
Promoting spiritual guidance for children, adolescents, their families and collaborators.
Dorcas Scout Group
Christian social project that, through scouting, stimulates physical, social, intellectual and character development.
Dorcas Thrift Store
Donations, mainly clothing, sold in our thrift store help maintain the four daily meals we provide.
Capoeira
With rhythm and acrobatics, it promotes physical conditioning and motor coordination.
Dance
Movement for the body, mind, and spirit stimulates creativity and strengthens self-esteem.
Together, we transform lives: one smile at a time.