The project of the Augustinian Recollects that fights against the scourge of abuse, exploitation and/or abandonment of girls and adolescents in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza has finished this school year with the joy of knowing that it is supported by local institutions and collaborators.
On December 12th, at the facilities of the Santa Mónica Home of the Augustinian Recollects in Fortaleza (Ceará, Brazil), the end-of-year fraternization of the friends, collaborators and volunteers of the Charitable Association of the Augustinian Recollects in Fortaleza, parent company institutional of the social project.
Gathered around a table, everyone was able to enjoy a meal and various speeches of thanks, including that of the director of the center, the Augustinian Recollect José García.
At the end of the year, The Home has had a multitude of initiatives from the local society that have helped create an atmosphere of joy, collaboration and gratitude. Thus, since the end of November, the “Letters of Good” project was developed, an initiative of the Benévolo chain of cafeterias and restaurants.
The restaurant’s customers have thus had the opportunity to collaborate with the beneficiaries of the Home, who wrote various letters of congratulations and in which they recounted some of their dreams. Restaurant customers could pick up these letters and collaborate in any of the needs of the Home or fulfilling any of the needs expressed in the letters, such as clothing, footwear, etc.
There have also been various institutions and individuals that have come forward to deliver various donations, most of them food, such as the kitchen account and recipes Pilotando Fogão, Cristina Brandão, the True Worshipers Evangelical Community, the Federation of State Industries de Ceará (FIEC), the psychologist Meire Costa or Rosemary Severiano.
Thanks to so many collaborators, the pantry of the Hogar Santa Mónica has been filled with food and has allowed for a much happier Christmas celebration for the beneficiaries, because joy also enters through the stomach.
Finally, the Home has launched the Christmas Smiles campaign at this time, for which it was possible to collaborate by buying study materials for the next 2023 academic year, which will begin in February: notebooks, markers, adhesive tape, pens, pencils , rubber bands, pencil sharpeners, glue and glue, scissors, plastic wrap, cardboard, paper…