Annual Report 2011 Green Week Green Week mobilized 3rd and 4th graders, who celebrated the date by putting up posters, holding workshops on how to reuse plastic bottles, led by the Grupo Reaja, creating and reading poems on the Rain Forest and carrying out actions to raise awareness in people regarding the issue of waste disposal. Green Week promoted the environmental awareness Earth Hour Students from the 8th to 12th grades that are part of the React Group (Reflection, Balance and Action towards the Environment) were in charge of the Earth Hour campaign in the School, going to the classrooms and explaining to their colleagues the meaning of the symbolic act promoted all over the world by the World Wildlife Fund - WWF, through which governments, companies and people show their concern towards global warming, turning off their lights for one hour, on a previously scheduled date. At the school, in addition to turning off the lights on March 26th, from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, all the computers displayed a wallpaper of the campaign for a week. Grupo Reaja The Reaja Group (Reflection, Balance and Action towards the Environment) is formed by students from several classes and carried out projects connected to humanitarian causes and environmental preservation. The campaign “A cada aro, uma nova esperança” (New hope with each ring) reached its goal of filling 120 plastic bottles with soda can rings, in a partnership with the company Fato Ferramentas, who exchanged the material for wheelchairs, which were donated. The project “Recycling cooking oil” collected used oil and sent it to a company that Students from the Reaja Group in the project “A cada aro uma nova esperança” (New Hope With Each Ring) changes it into soap. The campaign “Reempilhando: todas as pilhas têm um lado positivo” (Re-piling: all batteries have a The group has the support and orientation from the Chemistry, positive side) encouraged responsible disposal of this product. Physics and Biology departments in all projects. A Different Day A Different Day is a social project by the Faculdades respectively, people with psycho-social limitations and Integradas Rio Branco in which some kind of support is offered mentally challenged. The students collected food and hygiene to philanthropic institutions and, in 2011, students from both and cleaning products that were sent to both institutions, units of the school had a special part in it. The group from the and held a plastic-musical sensitization workshop and sports Higienópolis Unit held a great talent show, the Viva Fest 2011, activities that took art, emotion and joy to the people attended in benefit of Casa de Maria - Escola Maria Rainha do Amor, by those institutions. a school that cares for underprivileged children from the Jardim Peri community; having the responsibility to raise funds to buy 500 t-shirts for those children, the students gave their best not only in preparing and performing the talent show – which had musical, drama and dance presentations – but also in selling tickets to colleagues, parents and teachers, which ended up being sold out, achieving the social purpose of the event. At the Granja Vianna Unit, students got involved in the Olhar, Sentir e Fazer (Look, Feel and Do) project, benefiting the Instituto Cisne and Associação Lar Ternura São Camilo, which are dedicated to, Students participated in the Social Responsibility project called “A Different Day” 64
Anual Report 2011
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