Mrs Shafiqa is married and the mother of four daughters and two sons. She is Afghan and has a very simple background, she came from the province of Herat in Afghanistan and barely knows how to read and write. She had to leave her country when her family began to suffer threats and persecution after …
Mr Ghulam comes from Herat, a province in Afghanistan. He is married and has four daughters and two sons. He lived a simple and quiet life, working as a bricklayer while his wife worked as a seamstress. But everything changed with the Taliban taking power. He started to be persecuted because of his religious choice …
Alfredo and Angela came from Venezuela, where he worked as a music producer and she was a kindergarten teacher and dancer. When the situation started to get difficult there, they decided to leave and restart their lives in Brazil, where they have been for 7 years. They crossed the border, arrived in Manaus and were …
Ezatullah is an 18 year old boy who was born in a village in Afghanistan. He came from a humble family, managed to study until elementary school and then had to drop out of school to help his family. He grew up surrounded by family as is the custom in his country, but when he …
Visconde de Itaboraí School is located in São Bernardo do Campo, a city neighboring Diadema where AIRE is located, and both are part of Greater São Paulo. During the 2023 school year the school is organizing a project with 5th grade students about non profit organization in which each class chooses an NGO to help throughout the …
“My name is Y. I’m 24 years old and I was born in Puerto La Cruz, in the state of Anzoátegui, Venezuela. Before the economic crisis, I had a normal life: I lived with my mother and sister, there was no shortage of food and I studied surgical instrumentation at a private college. My mom …
The term interiorization refers to voluntarily taking Venezuelan refugees and migrants from the state of Roraima to other cities in the country offering better opportunities for socioeconomic insertion. This, in turn reduces the pressure on public services in the state of Roraima. The federal government estimates around 260,000 Venezuelan refugees and migrants currently live in …
Interiorization – a hope for a better life inside Brazil Read More »
This is K.’s story, one of AIRE’s residents who faced many challenges until he got to Sao Paulo and now dreams of starting a new life in Brazil: “Before the crisis, we lived a comfortable middle-class life in Venezuela. My wife and I worked, we had a home and food. With the crisis, the country’s …
Much harder than starving is seeing your child ask for food and have nothing to offer Read More »
Today Venezuela faces a political and economic crisis that has been devastating the country. It started in 2013 when Nicolás Maduro became president after the death of Hugo Chávez and was intensified by the devaluation of oil in the international market from 2014. The consequence was the impoverishment of the population, leading to the huge …
