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Vaga Lume Association is a Brazilian non-profit organization founded in 2001 grounded in the belief that investing in people is the best way to transform a reality. Its mission is to create opportunities for cultural exchange by reading, writing and orality, valuing the empowerment of people and rural communities of the Brazilian Legal Amazon region. Vaga Lume works in 160 rural communities (indigenous, riverside, roadside, rural settlement people or quilombolas - Brazilian with African descent) of 23 municipalities in the Brazilian Legal Amazon region, which encompasses nine federal states (Acre, Amapa, Amazonas, Maranhao, Mato Grosso, Para, Rondonia, Roraima and Tocantins), occupies 59% of the Brazilian territory and has 20 million people (12% of the Brazilian population). Despite the fact that education and culture are basic social rights, protected by the Brazilian Constitution and under human rights international treaties ratified by Brazil, its access and implementation in the Amazon region are very limited. It is one of the poverty zones in Brazil - with a GDP per capita 30% lower than the national value - where 42% of the population survives with less than US$ 5.00 a day. Due to the outstanding impact of Vaga Lume's work in the region, the organization is recognized by many international and national awards such as the Juscelino Kubitschek Award of Merit for Regional Development in Latin America and the Caribbean given by the Inter-American Development Bank (2009); the Millennium Development Goals Award, conferred by the United Nations and the Brazilian government (2005); the Vivaleitura Award, from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education (2008); and the Chico Mendes Environment Award, given by the Ministry of Environment (2006 and 2008). In 2011, Vaga Lume received its most important recognition: the 4th place at the Intercultural Innovation Award, conferred by United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group. As an awardee, in 2012, Vaga Lume was welcomed to the World Intercultural Facility for Innovation (WIFI), a network formed by the UNAOC, the BMW Group and the ten 2011 winners. Through this network, the UNAOC and the BMW Group challenged all winners to replicate and scale up their actions to promote intercultural dialogue and offered training, consultancy and institutional support to assist organizations to accomplish such results.

REDEEM THE DIGNITY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH PROMOTING THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIETY

Associacao Viva a Vida's mission is the empowerment of adolescents and young people within a context of social risk so that they can make healthy choices and develop self-esteem, autonomy and control over their lives; the work focuses on educational, artistic, cultural, socio-environmental, sport and leisure activities, and community mobilization for the prevention of drug abuse, to combat violence and guarantee Human Rights.

Enable the sustainable growth of socially responsible projects by promoting social inclusion.

To make the social inclusion of visually impaired people easier by respecting individual and social needs, through specialized products and services

femLENS' mission is to visually educate and make technologically aware the most vulnerable and resourceless women of our society through documentary photography made accessible by mobile phone cameras and cheaper point and shoot cameras.

We believe that each one deserves to be happy and that is why every day we stand beside children, adolescents, young people and the elderly so that they are protagonists of the transformation of life and society. Our mission is to provide shelter for children, adolescents, young people and the elderly, which aims to enable a safer, happier future with more opportunities

To ensure the effectiveness of rights for the population of the 16 favelas of Mare.

Insertion of vulnerable people into society. The Pluralis Association is an institution that fights for a society with more respect, equality and social inclusion. The organization is not aimed at profit, but rather to exercise altruism and to make public policy laws specifically aimed at the rights and duties of LGBTQI+, women and people with intellectual or multiple disabilities, are in fact contemplated with regard to them.

Promote social rights and help the LGBTQIAP+ population to achieve their emancipation and autonomy through educational and cultural projects, legal and psychosocial support, promotion of physical/mental health and income generation.

Sauva is a non-profit association that works in networks, promoting sustainability, autonomy, projects and business circularity; it is motivated by the environment's regeneration in its entireness; by reducing social inequalities; by knowledge exchanges with Brazil's indigenous peoples and traditional cultures; by the practice of auto education and by the cocreation of other kinds of economic relations.

To promote the integral education of children, adolescents and young people through sports, culture and job training.