November update

The Mundo Real webpage is now up! You can access the website at: www.1mundoreal.org. The website currently highlights two projects Radio Rakama (Madagascar) and Primeiros Passos (Brazil). Radio Rakama recently received a 5,000 dollar grant to help it continue in its operations. Find out more at: 1mundoreal.org/Radio%20Rakama.html

The project Primeiros Passos continues to help and assist the disabled population in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro. Recently the project members have been compiling a list of community volunteers to help out in the various tasks in assisting those with special needs whether it be construction projects on dilapidated homes, or transportation to doctor appointments. Cely has continued to receive medical supplies such as geriatric diapers, wheelchairs, and medicine and distribute them to families in need. Recently Find out more on our website at www.1mundoreal.org.

Project Primeiros Passos (First Steps)

In 2006 Mundo Real began working on its first project in the large urban slum of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro. We were invited to work alongside the local residents of Rocinha to develop the project Primeiros Passos (First Steps). The goal of Primeiros Passos is to respond to the unmet rehabilitative, therapeutic, supportive, and recreational needs of Rocinha’s physically and mentally challenged residents and their families.

Watch our short documentary about Primeiros Passos at: www.youtube.com/mundoreal21

In less than six months since its founding, Primeiros Passos has successfully organized services and assistance for over 100 families in the form routine house visits, educational workshops, transport, and much needed medical supplies. Primeiros Passos Director and Founder Cely Ferreira de Oliveira is a resident of Rocinha and the mother of a child with Cerebral Palsy.