Educação e pobreza: a atuação do projeto mãos amigas no combate à pobreza pela via da educação para crianças e adolescentes em Caxias, Maranhão

Abstract

Child poverty is one of the cruelest symptoms of social inequality in society. Thus, the problems related to this phenomenon were impacted by State intervention, institutions and public policies, the result of social movements that fought for the rights of these subjects. Thus, the present work has the goal to analyze performance of the Mãos Amigas Project in the fight against poverty of children and adolescents in the municipality of Caxias - MA. The research is of a qualitative-quantitative nature, in which fieldwork was carried out with a subject who acted in the Mãos amigos project and dice published by the Social Assistance Research Entity. The process of obtaining empirical data took place through semi-structured and the use of dice from the 2015 PEAS in social assistance units in Maranhão, in line with the empirical data of the research. Evidently poverty is a condition capable of depriving individuals of freedom and both empirical data and census research data demonstrated the existence of this factor. In this sense, education is a tool that offers children and adolescents means of subversion through awareness of violence and moves them to overcome deprivation. Thus, the project's performance in the Mutirão neighborhood in Caxias, Maranhão aims to prevent risks and social vulnerability.