The following article was originally published in Portuguese in the newspaper O Globo on October 12, 2024. For whom has Brazil been a homeland? It may seem like a simple question, but any attempt to answer it honestly exposes some of the country’s deepest flaws. The etymology of “pátria” (Portuguese for “homeland”) suggests a connection...
On September 19, the show “Martinho, Coração de Rei – O Musical” premiered in São Paulo for invited guests, including a very special group. That night, collaborators of the social business Tereza, women who have been released from the prison system, were able to see their work come to life on the stage of the...
Since July 15, the creation and rehearsals of the musical “Martinho, Coração de Rei” have been in full swing at the Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, in the Bom Retiro neighborhood of São Paulo. The show, which celebrates the musician and writer Martinho da Vila, has the participation of collaborators from the social business Tereza...
At the end of July, the Humanitas360 Institute and the social business Tereza launched the series “I’m Free, Now What?” on TikTok. The videos will offer tips and answer questions from people who have recently left the prison system and their families. Published weekly, the content will be presented by H360 and Tereza collaborators who...
The following article was originally published in Portuguese in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo on April 12, 2024. Brazil has a sad tradition of public figures who, unable to present adequate solutions to the problems they should solve, resort to simple formulas and easy ways out. The strategy is used by administrators who prefer...
The following article, written by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, was published in CIVI-CO Mag, a publication of the CIVI-CO social impact hub, in October. A series of preconceptions hover over the North and Northeast of Brazil that prevent us from seeing the region’s potential, without neglecting its socioeconomic challenges. The...
The following article, written by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, was published by the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo on October 10, 2023. At the beginning of October, the Supreme Federal Court (STF) unanimously decided that federal and state governments must develop a plan to combat problems in the prison...
On May 30th, in São Luís, Maranhão, the Humanitas360 Institute signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement with the UEMA Agency for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Relations – Marandu. On the occasion, the president of H360, Patrícia Villela Marino, and the dean of the State University of Maranhão, Walter Canales Sant’Ana, celebrated the partnership, which combines the...
The following article was published on the UOL website on May 9, 2023 by journalist Maurício Businari. Widowed at 16, she became a ‘drug lord’ in São Paulo: ‘A cursed legacy’ She met her husband at 15, “an overwhelming passion”. At 16, she gave birth to a boy. She found out the love of her...
On April 27th, a Technical Cooperation Agreement was signed to guarantee three more years of operation for the social cooperative created by the Humanitas360 Institute in São Luís, Maranhão. Held at the headquarters of the State Court of Justice, the ceremony celebrated the continuity of the work started in 2020 at the Women’s Prison Unit...