Living in a multicultural city, but historically marked by sharp socioeconomic inequalities, leads to development of strategies to combat social stratification and exclusion. Saramandaia is a low-income, majority black community located within noble areas in Salvador.
Like many other similar communities, it is characterised by abject poverty and insufficient assistance by governmental bodies, and consequently resulting in high rates of violence. In this context, 3 residents have elaborated strategies that seek to reclaim the historical identity of its residents.
Despite facing multiple barriers, in 2003 they founded the conscious art project, an initiative that has been transforming the community's reality, by providing assistance to young men and women, aiming at transforming their unfavorable conditions of socioeconomic exclusion.
On this tour, you'll visit this important social project that seeks to transform their lives through arts and sports, utilising graffiti, capoeira, boxing and percussion in organised courses and workshops. This tour promotes interaction and participation between you, the students and members of the community, so that you can experience the transforming power of these initiatives.
only on saturdays cause this comunnity is not helped by the state, we only have percussion lesson for those childres, some part of your payment goes to the project like a donation.