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Wearing the project t-shirts, with its bags slung over their holders and gripping its notebooks and pens, the pupils involved with the Megaphone at School project arrived for the third workshop.

The second workshop in the Megaphone at School project was held at all five hubs last week, attended by increasingly enthusiastic pupils.

Last week, pupils and teachers at forty secondary schools in the Rio de Janeiro Municipal network began to attend the workshops being organised for the Megaphone at School project.

Representatives of the forty government schools selected as participants in the Megaphone at School survey attended a presentation of this Project last Thursday in the auditorium at the Municipal Education Bureau.

Although Brazil has been paying more attention to education during the past few decades, with heavier public and private investments underwriting important accomplishments such as...

The recent storms buffeting Rio de Janeiro caused particularly severe problems for the Morro dos Prazeres community in Santa Teresa, with lives lost in landslides that swept away homes and left entire families destitute.

Some thirty managers of institutes and foundations spent Thursday morning discussing the challenges of secondary schooling in Rio de Janeiro...

This is the keynote theme of the meeting organised by the Instituto Desiderata on Thursday, April 8 during the VI Congress of the Corporate Foundations and Institutes Group (GIFE) on Private Outreach Investment, held at the Hotel Sheraton in Rio de Janeiro...

A diagnosis drawn up by these teens is designed to obtain an inside view of secondary education in Rio de Janeiro,linking analyses of existing educational indicators for this network to the perceptions of the school communities directly involved.

Exploring the challenges of secondary schooling and spotlighting its indicators in Rio de Janeiro, the Instituto Desiderata will host a meeting of the managers of entities investing in education, also attended by civil servants and other outreach organisations committed to education.

Representatives of the Municipal Health Bureau and the Instituto Desiderata met with the administrators of the Pedro Ernesto University Hospital (HUPE), as well as with the heads of the Paediatrics Department, the Adolescent Health Studies Centre (NESA) and the Haematology Unit, in order to integrate this important University Hospital with the United through the Cure (Unidos Pela Cura) Public Policy.

6th to 9th Grade School Diagnosis to be conducted by Government School Pupils in Rio de Janeiro

Secondary school pupils will be the researchers in the Diagnostic Action exploring this education segment in the Rio de Janeiro Municipality, linking analyses of existing educational indicators for this network to the perceptions of the school communities directly involved.

Approved on December 8, 2009, this Plan is part of the 2010 ? 2013 Pluri-Annual Plan (PPA) that is drawn up during the first year of each Administration, defining its values, goals and actions for the next three years and also for the first year of the subsequent Administration.

Eager to support public policies in the education area, the Instituto Desiderata has decided to focus its investments at the secondary school level (6th to 9th year) in Rio de Janeiro.

With more extensive use of referral cards for suspected cases of childhood cancers by primary care clinics, some adjustments were needed to the computerised system set up in 2008.

Strategic Committee looks back at 2009 and defines Strategies for 2010

Held on December 8 at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, the 15th Strategic Committee Meeting of the United through the Cure (Unidos Pela Cura) Public Policy

On December 2, the Rio de Janeiro City Hall held the first United through the Cure (Unidos Pela Cura) Public Policy Meeting, presenting and discussing its accomplishments

Booklet on the Desiderata website shows how to make videos with still cameras

Use audiovisual language as a way of making schools more attractive to their pupils, with steeper learning curves: how can this be done simply, with equipment available in any classroom?

For the first time in Brazil, the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP) held its congress in Brazil. This XLI congress was held in São Paulo on October 5 – 9.

The research project entitled Partnerships with Municipal Schools in Rio de Janeiro , conducted by the Instituto Desiderata has really taken off, and is now cooperating in the preparation of new studies.

Held on Brasilia October 8 – 12, this Congress gathered together more than 4,000 paediatricians. On October 10, at a panel session held especially to discuss major issues related...

Due to the extremely bad weather in Rio de Janeiro from the evening of Thursday, October 15, 2009 through to the following Saturday, it was not possible for Professor Tomaz Szczepanski to travel from the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) in São Paulo.

The Rio de Janeiro State Pediatrics Society (SOPERJ), the IPPMG Childcare Centre at the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ) and the Instituto Desiderata invite Paediatric Oncology Units...

The United Through the Cure public policy celebrates its approval under the Early Diagnosis Programme ran by the Ronald McDonald Institute.

On October 10, the wall supporting the slope behind the rear yard of the premises used by the Santa Teresa Ballet collapsed due to heavy rains, resulting in a massive landslip.

On October 19, the first round of meetings to publicise the United Through the Cure policy began in Investigation Hub Hospitals.

This Meeting was attended by representatives of five of the six Investigation Hub Hospitals, administrators from all three tiers of government (federal, state and municipal) in Brazil’s National Health System (SUS)...

The data recorded by the computerised monitoring system of the United Through the Cure policy show that public-private partnerships can help strengthen public policies.

Conducted by the Ação Educativa educational outreach organisation, the Seminar on The Education Development Plan...

The spacious auditorium of the Bank of Brazil Culture Centre (CCBB) was almost too small to hold the audience eager to discuss the topics listed for the I Education Seminar.

Dedicated teachers and tight-knit staffs working at medium-size schools for quite some time: these were the main common characteristics found at high-performing schools visited by the Education Staff of the Instituto Desiderata.

Plenty of questions, an attentive ear and the desire to gain hands-on knowledge of the real situation of schools in the Rio de Janeiro municipal network...

Schools, NGOs, companies and the Municipal Education Bureau (SME) discussed the findings presented by the survey of public x private partnerships under way in the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Education Network...

Last Monday, the first project under the Living and Winning (Vencer e Viver) Programme was launched in the Paediatric Oncology Area of the Instituto Desiderata...

On July 31, 2009, Audit Committee members Joaquim Dias, Luciano Vieira and Maria Fernanda Dias de Carvalho met at the headquarters of the Instituto Desiderata to examine and approve...

Under a partnership with the Instituto Desiderata the Municipal Civil Defence and Education Bureau conducted monitoring visits in July to Investigation Centre Hospitals in Rio de Janeiro...

After a year of work, the five projects supported by this Programme brought their activities to a close...

At the moment some 150 youngsters are being treated at Hemorio for diseases such as leukaemia and lymphoma. The biological characteristics and the prognoses...

The United through the Cure (Unidos Pela Cura) Initiative featured twice at the IX Paediatric Congress for Rio de Janeiro State (CONSOPERJ), held on May 14 – 16....

Organised by the Paediatric Oncology League, Professor Fernando Werneck hosted this annual event, supported by the Instituto Desiderata. Its purpose was to prompt discussions among medical students at Vassouras University,...

The III Partners Meeting of the Partnerships for Education Programme was a very special occasion! Held on April 14, it was attended by head teachers, education coordinators and teachers from seven government schools and...

Do public-private partnerships in Rio de Janeiro effectively help upgrade the quality of education in municipal schools? To what extent, and in what ways?

An innovative experience in government education in São Paulo drew the attention of the Instituto Desiderata. In the Butantã district of the São Paulo State capital, the Amorim Lima Municipal School broke down the walls of its classrooms and...

On the 10th of this month, the Instituto Desiderata visited the Partners in Education Association, which forms an interface between companies and / or individuals with government schools in São Paulo State, upgrading...