Holambra, a city marked by its immigrant origins and strong Dutch cultural presence, is also home to a growing population of migrants from the Northeast, mostly rural workers in flower greenhouses. This territorial and symbolic division, highlighted by a highway, demarcates not only distinct geographic spaces but also chasms in access to culture, education, and leisure.
Children from these migrant communities have few or no opportunities to participate in cultural activities. The AMARÍLIS project therefore emerges as an affirmative action for equity and social justice, guaranteeing the right to full development and access to symbolic and cultural assets.
More than just workshops, the project proposes a formative and emotional journey, centered on listening, coexistence, artistic production, and the collective construction of meaning. It aims to develop and empower critical, creative individuals who are aware of their transformative social role.
More than just workshops, the project proposes a formative and emotional journey, centered on listening, coexistence, artistic production, and the collective construction of meaning. It aims to develop and empower critical, creative individuals who are aware of their transformative social role.
The Amarílis project is not limited to cognitive development; its social role expands to the development of other human dimensions, such as emotional, social, physical, and cultural, which are important for the integral development of individuals.
Given this understanding, the development of socio-emotional skills is essential, that is, “the ability to mobilize, articulate and put into action knowledge, values, skills, attitudes and emotions to solve everyday problems”, whether personal or social, such as perseverance, optimism, solidarity, empathy, resilience, self-determination, among others, necessary for students to learn to relate better with themselves and with others and improve their living conditions.
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Our 2025 guiding theme:
The guiding theme of the 2025 annual project, "Caring to Regenerate," encourages reflection and action toward self-care, care for others, and the local community. Activities will be organized into interdisciplinary projects involving research, experimentation, and collective production. The projects will be structured considering the development of children and adolescents to:
Taking Care of Yourself:
Guiding axis: Self-knowledge, comprehensive health and well-being
Objectives: Stimulate body, emotional and mental awareness, developing healthy habits, self-esteem and strategies to deal with emotions and challenges.
Caring for Others:
Guiding axis: Empathy, dialogue and ethical coexistence
Objectives: To develop listening skills, respect for differences and the building of relationships based on collaboration and a culture of peace.
Caring for the Community:
Guiding axis: Belonging, cultural diversity and appreciation of local stories
Objectives: To rescue family stories, their local cultures of origin, empowering and recognizing the importance of migration for the city of Holambra and its development; Strengthen ties between families and the community; value knowledge and migration trajectories in the formation of the city.
Taking Care of History
To know, rescue and preserve the History of Holambra, including and integrating all the city's residents to feel part of and welcome this exponential city, which today houses so much culture and work in planting flowers and ornamental plants for Brazil and abroad.