Perfect Crossing - Playing a Big Game

"Sport has the power to change the world"

Nelson Mandela

Perfect Crossing refers to the soccer technique of crossing the ball, passing it to a player in another zone. Applying the Institute's pedagogical methodology to reality, Perfect Crossing proposes to share and disseminate knowledge from one area to another in a perfect way, considering sports, education and culture, which results in a harmonious play where the educator is also the player, complementing each other for the sake of the student's integral development.

The main objective of the Perfect Crossing program is to develop, together with the beneficiary public, a set of knowledge and skills necessary for their civic action and full aptitude for the job market and university. As a final result, the Institute proposes that, upon reaching adulthood (when they usually graduate from the institution's projects), students will be on an equal footing with those with higher incomes, having developed the following profile:

A fully literate adolescent who has developed a life plan. A human being committed to the community, a citizen aware of his or her rights and duties. A practitioner of a healthy lifestyle, knowledgeable about cultural diversity, but also of the value of his or her own culture.

Thus, the Institute aims to broaden the worldview of these students, promoting inclusion and social advancement, in order to combat the situation of inequality observed in Brazil, but with a focus on the Complexo do Muquiço, a region in which the Institute has been fully committed and engaged for 24 years. In 2024, the program encompassed two projects: ARTilheiro and Campeão de Cidadania.

Some results in the following images!

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