The education, culture and communication Program aims to expand learning opportunities to contextualize the population in its environment, universalize its knowledge, strengthen its cultural identity and enable the access to new knowledge and technologies in order to form confident and independent citizens, capable of managing their communities, defending their territories and their fundamental rights.

More than 53% of the riverside community populations where we operate in Western Pará is no older than 19. For this reason, and because we believe young people are the main transformation agents for the community’s present and future, the organization’s work has always focused on develop strategies for social inclusion in this age group.

Although they still live in an ecologically healthy environment and in a friendly community, these young people do face many problems and challenges

Firmly rooted in children and youth’s health projects, PSA has expanded its approaches, aiming to include and defend the rights of children and youth in the processes of community development as a way to ensure that communities are sustainable in the long run.

To do so, it acts both with public services (especially schools) and directly with the population with actions of social (education, health, leisure, culture and communication, economic (training for work, entrepreneurship and youth leadership) and environmental (environmental education, good management of natural resources) character.