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Our dance, the art of the change!

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    Intro

    The practice deals with the reach of SDGs through education through art and culture, above all, through the teaching of dance. We understand that in order to reach the goals, we had to create easy-to-accept transformation mechanisms for the institution's learners. We have already had four years of practice and intend until 2030 to change the reality of the great Bom Jardim, the most dangerous area of Fortaleza, which is currently one of the cities with the highest levels of violence on the planet.

    Objective of the practice

    To reach the largest number of people in the neighborhood and adjacent regions, contributing to a quality education, linked to ballet, because we understand from the years in which the practice happens, that education is the foundation for the human being to develop their motor skills, intellectuals, and with that, become a being able to understand their rights and duties. We achieve with education, unite art and culture, making children aware that it is necessary to study, to win in life and to be a professional in the area to choose to work in youth. We unite education with other practices, such as the notions of good nutrition; and food was one of our greatest challenges, since many of our students could not eat healthy meals at home, were malnourished and with some diseases caused by poor diet; also inserted with education, we work hard on our students gender equality, because we live in a society in which women are devalued, because the inequalities found in Brazil, are the size of their geographical map, that is, huge. We fight against poverty in all forms, and for this, we use partnerships with local institutions to provide vocational courses, so that people leaving here, leave with an artistic and professional training, because if she does not want to pursue a career as a dancer, can enter a university and pursue the course and career of their choice, as we work from the five-year-olds, who have to study to be a forward-thinking citizen. Last but not least, we work to reduce social inequalities of all kinds, because education is our greatest tool to work to raise awareness of what is right and wrong in people. Our daily struggle is to achieve the transformation we want, but we are gradually managing to change our reality and the reality of the more than 600 students that the institution attends. The idealizer of the practice, who is also a resident of the great Bom Jardim as a child, was attended by a social project with dance and had her life transformed; today, she made this transformation in the neighborhood where she was born and has been changing many lives. The first impacted were his first ballet students, who now govern the institution at his side, and are all in universities, and work at the institution, continuing the dream of bringing social transformation within the neighborhood where everyone was born and want to see the improvement , social transformation through art and culture.

    Partners
    Attending 600 children, adolescents and young people, from the age of five, those responsible for the institution, are all young entrepreneurs, who grew up in social projects and today are in universities, being the real witnesses that projects with such segments really work, transform and are able to change realities and perspectives of lives, in full. We have partnerships with local schools, in order to accompany the income of our students, together with the formal school and with institutions that bring to our institution, vocational courses for students and their families, reaching a total of 600 families in the outskirts of Fortaleza.
    Implementation of the Project/Activity

    The project was started at the home of the institution's idealizer, Katiana Pena, in which she knocked down the walls of her only home, to build a dance room to serve the children, adolescents and youth of the community of the great Bom Jardim in January 2015. Katiana worked at a Cultural Center since the year she formed her first dance group and when she left and came to her house, everyone followed her. Today they are directors, producers, coordinators of the institution that Katiana Pena presides over. In 2017, the institution became nationally known after receiving the reform of a TV program, and with that can increase its capacity of attendance, increased its partnerships and today is the largest institution of Fortaleza in number of learners. Today the project carries out a differentiated service in the neighborhood, since every learner, in order to participate in the activities offered by the project, must be enrolled in formal school or university, be low income and live in the great Bom Jardim; already in the institution works as follows: the learner does an hour of ballet classes, then he receives the healthy food we provide, such as fruits, juices, and natural snacks, then he participates in some professional course, or computing, or even the support to the education of the formal school, in which we carry out the accompaniment of all the students. The reports on the improvement of the life of the learners are heard daily by us leaders, and these reports come from the families and teachers themselves of these learners. The improvement we provide is complete as it goes through the main stages of human life, since our care is from the age of five, the phase of the child's life in which all good principles must be worked out, for the ideal formation of the child, human character.

    Results/Outputs/Impacts
    The project for its location, in its initial phase faced serious problems, this being located in the region most devastated by the crime of Fortaleza. The great Bom Jardim is divided into territories by organized crime, and with this, residents can not enter into territories that are not yours, in case this resident can be exterminated, as has happened innumerable times. But the scope of our work has succeeded in overcoming these criminal barriers, and has made these landowners understand that here their own children may find a way to have a future that is not linked to crime. Today the Katiana Pena Institute attends to the children of these criminals, without making any distinction, even because we preach the reduction of inequalities in every way. Often we distribute basic food baskets to the poorest communities around the institution, since many of these families that live in this region do not have access to potable water or sewage networks or lighting, living in extreme poverty; so we took the initiative to help these people, at least with food. We feel it is our duty to help everyone, so we intend until 2030, to attend to all the poor and needy in the surroundings of our institution.
    Enabling factors and constraints
    The most favorable conditions were that everything we offer in the institution is totally free, so it was an opportunity for the participants, who in their great majority are of extreme poverty, and would never be able to pay to have access to what we offer to, all free. Another condition that was bad, was improved, was the access to the institution, because the streets were taken by huge holes, which made it difficult for people to access; with the recognition in national network, the competent authorities sent asphalt in the surrounding streets, which drastically improved the access to the institution. The most recent restriction that we will overcome is the physical space of the institution, because when we received the reform of the TV program, the number of people who were previously served was 140 people, if it is too small to accommodate all learners; then, in 2018, we received a donation, a piece of land behind the institution, to build the new headquarters, which could hold up to 3,000 students. This is our greatest difficulty, because we can not extend our capacity to attend to the issue of physical space, and in 2019 will be solved by the construction of the new headquarters of the Katiana Pena Institute.
    Sustainability and replicability
    The sustainability of the project is done in two ways. First, to keep the professionals who work in the institution, we participate in calls for proposals with financial return for the maintenance of the physical space and payment of the professionals. We are currently being supported by a state Fiscal Incentive notice, MECENAS do Ceará, which pays all the expenses of the institution. The other form of project sustainability is the way that Katiana Pena initially found to keep the institution, which was to celebrate partnerships with local microentrepreneurs, in which Katiana herself taught dance classes to these companies in the neighborhood and in return she received goods to help feed the learners. This type of partnership is still in force today, and we have a network of 14 local partners. The initial idea was to keep the partners only from the great Bom Jardim, as a way to value the companies in the neighborhood where the institution is located.
    Conclusions

    Taking into account the approximately 600 learners in socio-cultural and educational activities and activities, IKP understands that it is necessary to invest in the staff and the educators, guaranteeing them the maintenance and the generation of income in order to develop their professional work without having to worry about to seek, outside the institution, other means of personal and professional survival. The importance of IKP will beyond the dependencies of the institution, because we feel the results we aspire to in the students, and these results come from where more is expected, such as, for example, the good performance in the formal school and the best social coexistence in the family, since our intention beyond the teaching of dance is to transform the<br />
    citizens with a vision of an enlarged future, so that this may personal and interpersonal. We also emphasize that the IKP is considered an oasis amid the chaos in which it lives Fortaleza, because the periphery of the Great Bom Jardim, is separated by territories, where each territory is commanded by a criminal faction, and we at IKP have free access to all territories, large numbers of children and young people exposed to an uncertain future.

    Other sources of information
    The institution holds the 2018 Cultural Responsibility Seal, offered by the Secretary of Culture of the Government of the State of Ceará.
    The institution also holds the seal of COMDICA - Municipal Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents.

    Our history in the TV program Caldeirão do Huck: https://gshow.globo.com/programas/caldeirao-do-huck/noticia/conheca-mul…


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    Timeline
    05 January 2015 (start date)
    31 December 2030 (date of completion)
    Entity
    Instituto Katiana Pena - IKP
    SDGs
    4 10 5 1 3
    Region
    1. Latin America and the Caribbean
    Geographical coverage
    According to the ranking of the neighborhoods according to the vulnerability index, the five neighborhoods that make up the great Bom Jardim are among the 12 most vulnerable in Fortaleza.
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    Katiana Pena, Director