This month, we held a three-day celebration to mark the first year of Saúde Criança Recontar here in Florianópolis.   We held a children´s party with story-telling and a trampoline on the beach, an arts and crafts workshop and a ceremony to recognize the 138 people and organizations involved as families, volunteers, partners, workers and Board [...]

Here in Florianopolis, we recently had a week of whirlwind communication in the world of local politics.  We met with the President of the Municipal Chamber, to whom we presented the organization and he pledged his support.   We were then invited to present to the local politicians at a live, televised Open Tribunal.  Dr. Marisa, [...]

It has now been six months since our first family entered the Saúde Criança Recontar programme.   
Given that the programme works with families in the most difficult of situations, over two years, I have steeled myself to seeing no clear results for quite a while.  Indeed, I have buried myself in the pursuit of a set [...]

Looking at the lives of the families that Recontar is encountering, brings my own everyday worries into sharp perspective.  Feeling down over the frustrating monotony and stubbornness of the endless to-do list appears somewhat ridiculous when another mother is struggling to feed her children properly or being told her child has lost a kidney.
Last year, [...]

Recontar is now six months old and it is achieving or surpassing all of this period´s targets in the social business plan.   In a world of much suffering and struggle and its frequent companions pessimism and apathy, this international mosaic of families, volunteers, workers and supporters is creating hope.  It is a pleasure to be [...]

I was building a marble run with two other little boys this week.  Paulo, the older of the two, has strong willful brown eyes like Tom and he sat without hesitation between my knees and built a tower of green and blue tubes, delightedly turning the cogged wheel to watch the tower twirl.  His brother [...]