The Afonja Community already has a social work which can be seen at its school - Eugenia Anna dos Santos School - its museum - Ile Ohum Lailai Museum - its choir - Faraimara -
its library etc. This Project aims to develop this work creating some workshops (recycling papers, doll making, computing, wood work, dance, percussion etc) based in a methodology which sees freedom as the fundament of social-cultural changes towards democracy, learning of professional skills, equal opportunities and respect to human rights.

This community has already 97 years. It trys to act among poor children and teenagers developing skills in areas as: music, painting, crafts etc, all of them based on african tradition.

The Project - Children in Danger Afonja Community - is an educational project which pretends to work with children and teenagers towards the development of professional skills, a work carried on together with the School Eugenia Anna dos Santos. We intend to bring discussions on afro-brazilian issues, citizenship and children rights.

We have seen that there is a lack of reflection on important issues related to the subjects quoted above even among teachers and instructors. There is an urgent need of meeting programms to discuss points which are fundamental in the day-to-day of the community.

Problems of relationship, individual problems besides the social problems already known by all, make it every day even more difficult to adolescents of poor communities to integrate temselves into the large society: violency inside and outside of house, low life contitions, control of emotions, poor education are just some of the great problems they face.

We want to state that these days, the traditional means of education are not enough to face the demands of these communities. We must take new educational methods to facilitate the educational process of these youths, victims of racial and economical dicrimination.

With new methodologies, we aim to call the youths to a commun objective, decided by the community, accepted by them, towards citizenship and development of professional skills.

This aim will be reached with the support of the Cruz Saint Society of the Ile Axe Opo Afonja, which already has experience working with the demands of children and adolescents of this community. We just continue its tradition in social responsability.

Our aim is to educate youths to social work, developing self-respect, giving cultural space for communitary work towards education and citizenship.

The specific aims of the Project are:

- Educate 25 youths giving them the awareness of the religious and cultural tradition already existing at the Ile Axe Opo Afonja

- To encrease the physical space of the School Eugência Anna dos Santos to make possible the realization of the ideals of the Project.

- Educate 30 children and teenagers in the art of 'capoeira'.

- Educate 30 children and teenagers in music - percussion.
(atabaque, berimbau, triângulo, agogô, caxixi e pandeiro).

- Educate 30 children and teenagers in recycling paper.

- Educate 30 children and teenagers in doll making identifying the Orishas.

- Educate 30 children and teenagers in iron work to make the symbolic instruments used in the religious rituals and iron objects in general.

- Give citizenship awareness to all children and teenagers of the Project.

- Educate 210 children and teenagers in computing science to face professional work.

- Use the documents of the Museum Ile Ohun Lailai and of the Library as source of study for the children and teenagers of the Project.

- Educate 08 adolescents in registration and documentation to
work at the Documentation Center of the Ile Axe Opo Afonja.

- Educate 30 children and teenagers in dance, emphasizing african dance and african history.

- Educate 30 children and teenagers in ecological issues.