8th Christmas party for children from the neighborhoods: Vila Nova, Paquetá e Centro – Santos / SP

How it has all started
By the year of 2006, Aldeídes Azevedo has begun her job as a nurse in the Family Health unity, in Santos historical centre.
One of her functions as a nurse was to recognize the local and the people in the area where she work, and for that, Aldeídes faced a tough reality. She met families who lived in sub-human conditions and in the most of the time living in slums and shared the house with other families.
In face of this reality, Aldeídes started a voluntary service and begun to distribute small Christmas baskets to help fighting the food scarceness and bringing some comfort to these children and their families.
In the beginning, there were 20 children and the festivities were at the health unity, and the baskets were made by Aldeides’ family.
In the next year, the festivity has occurred in another place, also a simple place, but a place which held a large number of people, so, in the second year 50 baskets were delivered to these people.
The requirement for the child to get his basket was that the mother should take the child to do the doctor accompaniment, taking the child to take the vaccines when it is necessary.
The strategy helped on the monitoring and considerable improvement in the children’s health.
Since 2010 the party it is held in the Sports Gymnasium from the Custom’s Broker Union, space which is becoming small to the grandiosity of this event.
In 2014 sandwiches were distributed, finger-food and soft-drinks besides 172 gifts and 120 baskets to the families in an event plenty of fun for the children and their family.
Ms. Aldeídes organization counts on the help of her family. Pedro Azevedo, our intern, already apprived in the OAB, is the son of Ms. Aldeídes, and as his family, participates body and soul of the moment. Fadiga e Mardula Office, represented by The administrative associate Bernardo, supported the event, having the priviledge of sharing such a moment. Attention, care and understanding of the real needs, is the essence of this humanitarian and sharing project. Among inequalities, we are all the same, and those who lean for reality, are not only better, they are great!!!

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