Code Club

Have you ever had difficulties in a computer project? A hard time with a Java class compilation? A code not connecting to the database? A linux driver that you couldn’t find? Imagine how hard would be if you didn’t have access to the internet or not even to a computer? How could you learn everything you know today? Our daily problems are sometimes very hard to be resolved and the help of other people many times made our lives easier.

I learned with the open source community that “a dream you dream alone is only a dream, a dream you dream together is reality”. You can dream with us and then we’ll have the resources to give a better future to forty five kids. We have a LOT… teaching material, methodology, volunteers giving their time, a place and children that dream with the opportunity to have a better life. Now we are just missing computers! Contribute

The Dorcas project is a brazilian non-profit organization, founded in 2013. It has it's children unit in Frei Damião, the biggest favela of Santa Catarina (state of Brazil) with the intent to promote social justice and transformation through socio-educational initiatives. This project takes care of forty five children and teenagers (from 6 to 16 years), developing several activities like: english, music, dance, martial art classes and also provides them the daily food. All the collaborators are voluntary and everything is provided through donations.

In the beginning of 2017, a new project called Code Club will start, which aims to teach kids (starting from 7 years old), to learn programming logic through the creation of games and animations, stimulating their creative and intellectual development.

Computer programming is an important ability these days and we believe that children also needs to know how the technological resources work internally to develop the necessary knowledge that will make them go beyond excel spreadsheets, text writing or using the internet, they will actually produce their own programs. In a context of social vulnerability and poor, this, will surely provide good perspectives and a better future for the kids.

To the accomplishment of this project, we need the help to buy seven computers. The price of each computer is U$415 dollars and a total of U$2905 dollars. If you want to contribute with this project please do your donation.

Project Website: www.projetodorcas.org.br