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SESI Citizenship


SESI Citizenship is a Brazilian program that aims to bring education, sports, leisure and culture to all pacified communities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, i.e., those that already have the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs). Created in August 2010, the program has already held about a million attendances in dozens of communities and was awareded the prize "Citizenship Personality 2013", granted to individuals and institutions who "contribute to the defense of civil rights, the strengthening of social promotion policies and the ethical values."

SESI Citizenship is locally implemented whenever new UPPs are installed at each location. Its goal is to bring leisure activities and social services for the inhabitants of the region - some of them in a permanent way. According to previous researches that identify the main needs of each community, it is created a plan of what will be offered to residents. By the way, some of them are even hired to perform certain functions, such as: monitor the progress of work; identify the local needs further; promote, explain and enroll residents in activities and courses offered by the program. The so-called "SESI Citizenship Agents" also encourage people to learn how to read and write for the first time.

The program contemplates some specific activities:


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