One great dream

 

Along with God's Providence and with each one of you we want to accomplish this great dream:

     
 
To continue and to improve our educational proposal, it was always our dream that one day we would have at our disposal an extensive piece of arable land close to Salvador, appropriate to establish a model farm, that would include an Agricultural School so that the adolescents, along with us, little by little could learn how to work the land, to cultivate it without using chemical products, to live simply, be self sustaining, raise every kind of animal, harvest what they sowed, respect nature and to preserve the environment.
 
     

Accomplishing this would allow us to reach the following objectives:
 
:: On a pedagogical level, our adolescents on their journey towards social reintegration, would feel more satisfied if we could offer them the possibility of learning a humbler and a simpler profession, something that is within their capacity and reach.

:: Persisting on a group family life would educate our adolescents in order to become parents capable of facing married life in a responsible fashion, maybe, some of them, becoming social parents, that is, educators of other smaller ones sheltered at the house-homes on the farm.

:: We could accommodate a drug dependent group of adolescents who would need such a center to recover, only two of such centers exist here in Bahia.

:: This kind of communal family life in a farm setting could become an oportunity for the boys of the region, and the Agricultural School would become a opportunity for the boys that are not being benefited by any existing educational proposal.

:: From the sale of fruit and what's produced there, and also the sale of livestock, we could become economically self sufficient in order to continue the activities of the Foundation, benefiting so many newly born children and abandoned adolescents in Salvador.

:: Through partnership with universities we could enable many trainees cultural and technical interchange, teachers and professionals (even foreign) looking for the opportunity of collaborating with some serious project in the area of the abandoned youth.

:: One sector or area could be reserved for a simple and family type "hotel farm" to accommodate the technicians, trainees and volunteers that arrive here to collaborate with the project, and for other guests in search of rest or rural educational tourism. We would facilitate and make known this experience on behalf of the abandoned children and we would motivate the flow of tourism to the area, thus benefiting social and economical development.

 
 
The dimension of the farm
depending on your contribution!

Help us to offer these abandoned boys and girls
what is necessary to accomplish the "farm" project.

It will be named
thus:

 
 
because it will be the fruit of the solidarity of
a lot of good intentioned people along with partnership with both public and private bodies, more sensitive to the serious problem of the marginalized youth.
 
 
The below approve support and guarantee this noble project:
 

Dom Geraldo Majella Agnelo,
Archbishop of Salvador and
Cardinal Primate of Brazil

Regina Simões de Mello Leitão,
President of the Newspaper "A Tarde" of Salvador
and President of Honor of the Fundação Franco Gilberti

Countess María Teresa Gilberti of Milan (Italy)
Honorary Collaborator of the Fundação Franco Gilberti

Missionary Center of the Diocese of Milan

Missionary Center "Dom Helder Câmara" of Muggiò (Italy)

Association "Amici della Fondazione Franco Gilberti" of Milan

 
YOU MAY HELP THE "PROJECT SHARING FARM"
BY DEPOSITING YOUR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION:
 

c/c N° 14449-8

FOUNDATION "FRANCO GILBERTI"

Bank Itaú - Agency 2928

Salvador (Bahia) Brazil

 
Dom Helder Câmara used to say:
 

"If a person dreams alone,
his/her dream will always be a dream;
but if many dream that same dream,
soon that dream will become reality".