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Rio Carnival and Community Project

"Quest4Change seeks to relieve financial hardship and poverty in disadvantaged groups, especially children."

Caring for the boys of Casa Lar

Since 2006 Quest4Change have been working with the Mangueira Social Project during their particularly busy Rio carnival period.  During this time we provide extra man power and financial support for Tia Neuma and Casa Lar de Mangueira, a home for orphaned and abandoned boys with special needs.

What the problem?

The Tia Neuma School is for gifted children of the Mangueira favela, the school provides the Country Profile - Brazilchildren with opportunities they would otherwise miss out on as a result of living in a favela.  Our volunteers help out at the school during the busy carnival period, helping the children prepare for this event which is the highlight of their year.  The main focus of this project however is the Casa Lar home for boys with physical and mental disabilities.

How Quest4Change helps

Quest4Change has been supporting Casa Lar for the last 5 years, providing volunteer's to support the core staff.  By providing essential funds of over £6,000 a year Q4C helps to pay for basics such as food, transport and trips helping improve the boy's quality of life.

A trip to the Zoo for the Casa Lar boys

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Quest4Change works on this project with the Mangueira Social project supporting the United Nations Development Goal 1 - Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger

The Boys of Casa LarThe Mangueira Social project

Latest News: 

June 2010 update:

As many of you may be aware we here at Quest4Change have been working hard over the last 18 months to increase the support we give to the Casa Lar home for disabled boys in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Smiles all round for the boys of Casa Lar

We are pleased to announce that life for the boys at Casa Lar is continuing to improve. Thanks to the support of UK trusts and donors Quest4change has made a number of valuable purchases for the home in Rio, including mattresses, food and clothing and numerous social and education trips have been arranged for the boys and they are all attending some form of school according to their needs or their circumstances.

In March this year our Brazil coordinator Danny Martinez travelled out to the project to allocate funds and report on the progress made and what is needed for the future. We have managed to secure some funding from the government which is great news however it is significantly less than the home received in 2007/8, so it is essential that we here in the UK continue to support the boys as much as we can to enable the home to maintain an appropriate level of care, support and education.

If you would like to know more about this project and the boys who live at Casa Lar or would like to know how you can help then email us at heather@questoverseas.com

To all our supporters, Thank you.

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Achievements

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How you can help: 

  • Volunteer
  • Be a Secret Millionaire for this project, don't worry, you don't have to be an actual Millionaire to help out. 

£10 will pay for hygienic supplies, nappies sheets and other essentials for one boy for a month  

£30 will help feed a boy for 3 months. 

£40 will pay for five boys to get to school for a month. 

£50 will help support one of the boys at Casa Lar for a month. 

Contact Heather to find out more about how you can help.

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