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mobilization for the right to play, to study, the right to have good nutrition, health, equal opportunities, the right of being protected against violence and forcible work...   According datas from the Government, in 1996, São Gonçalo do Retiro, a suburb of Salvador, had 8.500 families (about 36.650 individuals), of them 32.000 were blacks. They live in poor areas having short income with about 13.120 of them having no cultural opportunities and no ways of integration and social formation. As always happens in those areas, there is the exigency of child work and the risk to go into illicite activities and drugs. In brazilian cities, children and youths are exposed to precocious work and loss of family and communitiy links (government datas - IBGE - shows that 20% of brazilian workers are adolescents). The Ile Axe Opo Afonja, a religious community of afro-descendents in São Gonçalo do Retiro, Salvador, worries with its social responsability since its beginning decades ago. It has a solid social work expressed in its School, in the work of its Museum founded 20 years ago, in its workshops for development of professional skills and now, with this Project, aims to improuve this social work, going beyond its walls, reaching the children and youths of the streets around - preparing to the demands of the new century. The maintainance of the workshops created by our Project, certainly will provide professional skills and the raise of awareness of what being a true citizen means by children and teenagers.