People’s lives and safety depend on, at the right moment, not doubting and knowing how to respond to dangers and events that, even if unexpected and unwanted, they can always be prevented. For this reason, the “Flying Minds Collective” has trained workers and collaborators of the Home to respond to these situations.
For the employees and collaborators of Saint Monica Home, the socio-educational project of the Augustinian Recollects in Fortaleza (Ceará, Brazil), knowing first aid is extremely important, since it means the difference between simple shock and tragedy in emergency situations.
At the Saint Monica Home’s, about 30 minors are welcomed on a full-day basis (24 hours a day, 7 days a week), always accompanied by their educators and members of the professional care and management team. The continued presence of girls and adolescents requires permanent attention, in addition to the knowledge to know how to act when faced with a eventuality of danger.
These skills are also valuable in preventing these complications before they occur, to promote and educate beneficiaries about safe behaviors and not to waste time doing the right thing as soon as the contingency begins.
All employees of Saint Monica Home, in collaboration with the Collective for the development of people and communities Flying Minds, through collaboration direct from Henrique de Sousa Castro as monitor, on September 8 they carried out a training focused on prevention and application of first aid in emergency situations emergency, focused especially on how to care for girls and young people.
It has also been the way in which the Saint Monica Home responds to what is known in Brazil as Lucas Law, that is, Federal Law 13,722 that obliges public and private schools and educational and recreational spaces for children and young people throughout the national territory to be prepared to offer first aid.
The name by which this law is known comes from Lucas Begalli, a boy of just 10 years old. who lost his life in São Paulo during a school trip due to mechanical asphyxiation. The investigation after the fact showed that this fatality could have been avoided if the responsible for the event would have had simple knowledge of first aid.
The fact that Saint Monica Home is a permanent shelter for girls and adolescents and has within its facilities the Saint Augustine Cultural Center, a support space school with classrooms, library and computer room, is reason enough to have wanted seek compliance with this law.
After this training day, the educators, monitors and support team of the Saint Monica Home are now duly prepared and certified to apply safety measures first aid in emergency cases. Thanks to the Flying Minds Collective for this collaboration and training.
