Bimonthly bulletin of Fazer Acontecer Institute (IFA), NGO that has been operating under a sports-oriented educational perspective in low income communities in Bahia since 2004. It assists currently around 500 teenagers in projects in the communities of Saramandaia, Calabar and Recanto Feliz in Salvador-BA and in the cities of the countryside of the State of Bahia . For further information, access: www.fazeracontecer.org.br
IFA hits the number of 500 teenagers assisted
In 2010, Fazer Acontecer Institute completed seven years of citizenship-oriented educational projects and hit the number of 500 teenagers assisted concurrently. This number was achieved thanks to the collaboration of all the partners engaged over the past years. We would like to acknowledge all the organizations and companies that keep supporting us, and also those that helped us in the past: WebForce Networks, Worktime Assessoria Empresarial, Fluxo Soluções Integradas, Metalúrgica Squadrilar, Belmetal, ACEB, The Global Fund for Children, Empower, UFBA, UNICEF and UNESCO.
IFA operating in two more towns of the semi-arid region of the State of Bahia
Early this year, IFA started to operate in two more towns of the semi-arid region of the State of Bahia : Ichú and Retirolândia. In these two towns, educators are already trained in sports for education and the classes are already ongoing. The support of civil society has been very important so as the project can fully benefit these communities.
IFA visits Colombia and became acquainted with an interesting work methodology
IFA's representatives were in Colombia to become acquainted with organizations that approach sports under a non-conventional way. There, they visited organizations such as “Colombianitos” and “Fútbol con Corazón”, which slogan is football for peace and use sports as a pedagogical tool to address children-related social issues, as their presence in the world of drugs and violence. The meeting was sponsored by Empower, IFA's partner company since 2007.
 
 
IFA receives Inter-American Foundation's representative
IFA was visited by Amy Kirschenbaum, Inter-American Foundation representative. Amy came to Salvador to know more closely IFA's representatives and discuss better actions so that the “Sports and Education in the Semi-arid Region” project can achieve a bigger success.
Empower's representative visits IFA one more time
Empower's representative Andrea Lynch visited IFA one more time this March. As in the past year, Lynch visited IFA's facilities and got very satisfied with the work performed: “it's always nice to visit IFA. The members' enthusiasm, the teachers and coaches' dedication, the coordinators' commitment with a continuous learning, in addition to the program's improvement and deepening, always inspire me. IFA is hugely growing, not only in terms of size and coverage, but also in terms of quality. Congratulations”, said Lynch.

IFA is quoted on Empower’s website www.empowerweb.org/newsevents/road-empower-brazil and Global Fund for Children’s: blog.globalfundforchildren.org/index.php?option=com_mojo&Itemid=30&p=583