São Paulo

Sao Paulo Confía, founded in 2001, is a pioneering organization in microcredit for small, disadvantaged entrepreneurs, based on a solidarity guarantee system. It has supported more than 3,300 entrepreneurs.

The Hospital do Câncer A. C. Camargo, a pioneer in cancer treatment in Brazil, created the Schwester Heine School in 1986, allowing children undergoing treatment to continue their studies while receiving medical care.

The Sao Paulo Sports Festival, a 24-hour event with 2,000 free activities, promotes coexistence, healthy habits and equality, improving quality of life and consolidating the city as a Brazilian sports capital.

São Paulo, with serious social problems, launched the “Club School” program in 2007 to offer free sports and cultural activities to young people. It benefits 230,000 people in 98 municipal clubs.

Sundays and holidays between the hours of 9am and 5pm, almost 1.000 streets of Sao Paulo are closed to vehicle traffic for the leisure of citizens. Activities such as games, sports, celebrations, dances, etc. are organised by each community in order to encourage social conviviality.

The Unified Education Center – Uirapuru project in Sao Paulo seeks social inclusion through sports, promoting values such as effort, cooperation and self-esteem, and preventing diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle.

The Program offers occupational training courses for the homeless and strategic collaboration of companies working with the City Council of Sao Paolo in order them hire Program participants.

Through this initiative it is intended that the public cemeteries of Sao Paulo are perceived as open-air museums, places of learning that preserve part of the history and art of the city.