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Generation Unlimited: telling untold stories, changing lives

Human Rights
I've worked and learned at the Institute Create for TV, Cinema and New Media, an NGO in São Paulo that fosters projects in audiovisual production with youth and adolescents. The experience of producing cinema art made a major difference in my life and I decided to share this with other people as well. Our Youth Challenge group - Black Production - aims at creating space and visibility for black people, people from the LGBT community, and people from the periphery of São Paulo. That’s why this project is about fostering youth empowerment, helping them understand that they have a voice and...
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Felipe Caetano: I was a child labourer and now I fight for children's rights

Human Rights
Throughout my childhood, I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. Many said I would be a politician or something, but there was a problem: my childhood was interrupted by child labour. I started working at 8 years old. While my friends were having fun on weekends, I was a small waiter serving people on the beaches of my city. I had no right to play. And this routine was quite tiring for me: all-day long, under an intense sun, barefoot and with a very busy workload. I was exhausted to go to school on Mondays.