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Based on the need to establish animal welfare policies and public health promotion due to the importance of stray animals in the transmission of zoonoses, the objective was to study the population dynamics of homeless dogs in the city of Descalvado - SP, the perception of citizens related to the cause of animal protection and also to the current Federal, State and Municipal legislation. To account for the separation of urban and rural sectors, the Clip tool of the Qgis program was used, sectoring the municipality of Descalvado into North, South, East, West, Central and Industrial District. For the application of the questionnaires, 0.5% of the population from each established area of the municipality was selected and the findings were correlated with existing legislation and public policies, analyzing their effectiveness. As we can see, in summary, the interviewees demand from the local government for improvements, but also, greater responsibility of the population. In addition to the qualitative analysis through the reading and perception of the reports, an analysis of the repetition of key words was carried out, through the creation of the word cloud, an important tool that highlights the terms most cited by the people interviewed, of which "oversight, laws and awareness", revealing the need for public policy directions. The data lead us to conclude that despite the existence of legislation, there is still little application of penalties. In the city, the areas with the highest rate of stray dogs were West and South, peripheral regions and with low-income population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to discuss the possibilities of organizing sectors of the working class that are living on the streets. In this way, world experiences of organizing these subordinate classes are important, since the phenomenon of pauperism is historical and has a global scale. In times of advancement of neoliberalism, on the one hand, which aims at the total destruction of social rights, and on the other, of crisis of the classic instruments of organization of the working class, such as political parties and unions, launching the possibility of organizing workers in homelessness becomes an even greater challenge. In Brazil, the creation of the National Movement of the Homeless Population (MNPR), in 2005, was a fundamental step in this direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses the impacts of poverty on the education of children and adolescents, analyzing the causes of social exclusion. The methodology starts from a qualitative approach, with an exploratory nature, and uses a semi-structured questionnaire to collect data from five teachers from a public school in the city of Serra, State of Espírito Santo, Brazil. As a result, it is observed that these teachers understand poverty and social exclusion as an obstacle in the education of children and adolescents and perceive the need for an effective public policy aimed at the education of the underprivileged. However, some of these professionals still didn't arise as social agents involved in this intervention, explaining in their answers that they do not see themselves intertwined with issues that go beyond the act of teaching the classic disciplinary contents, revealing themselves to be aliens to the reality of the students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of the research was to understand the Caxangá Watershed Environmental Vulnerability in Boa Vista-RR. As a methodology, socioeconomic information from the Caxangá Hydrographic Basin was collected and later followed with the laboratory stage, with the crossing of natural and social elements in the ArcGis 10.1 software. The results indicate concentration of sites with high vulnerability near and in the Calungá neighborhood coinciding with an area of concentration of people with low income, that is, in flood events, these places tend to suffer more damages, noting that they have a low slope, in addition to Have a large concentration of people and infrastructure that can potentiate the effects of a flood event. The products of this research should serve as guidance for possible infrastructure projects in places of high environmental vulnerability, especially in the Caxangá Watershed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective of this article is to identify the presence of black and mixed-race people in the "Companhia de Aprendizes Marinheiros do Pará", as well as to understand the different aspects of the instruction offered by this institution in the period from 1866 to 1888. The guiding question was to know the main aspects of the instruction offered by the Companhia de Aprendizes da Marinha in Pará to blacks and browns, in order to identify the presence of these subjects as students of the Company. To this end, we carried out historical-documentary research using sources from the "Arquivo Público do Estado do Pará (APEP)", which were treated by the evidentiary method, by which we analyze generally imperceptible information. We have observed how the presence of children in military institutions was a way to supply the needs of the armed forces and to take underprivileged minors off the streets; and how the Company, besides instructing and training black children, also acted as an institution for "correction" of individuals considered "undisciplined". Instruction and training in the Company, aimed at the black population of blacks and browns, were imposed by the authorities, police chiefs and judges of orphans, and emphasized an education with ideals of civilizing these children, aiming their usefulness to the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The elderly population grows sharply and as a result of this condition, questions arise about living that must be addressed, in order to promote functional capacity and strengthen the dignity of this population. This research studies the housing needs of the low-income elderly and their urban insertion, in order to contribute to the debate on inclusive urban planning. And it questions how the current dynamics of Brazilian housing policy and, in particular, the PMCMV impacts the lives of low-income elderly people, considering the concept of decent housing, social housing, the right to the city and the conditions of urban insertion offered by the new home. To this end, we use the case of Residencial Vila dos Pescadores, in Maceió / AL, for low-income families, based on data collection by simple observation and semi-structured interviews with elderly residents of the residential. The research is exploratory and carried out under a qualitative approach. In the end, it is intended that the debate raised from the case presented, contribute to the definition of the social housing quality criteria provided to the low-income elderly population, indicating ways for housing and urban policy to take into account, and in a consistent, population aging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inspired by the discovery of some letters in Portuguese archives, in which a Brazilian woman defends herself against the Portuguese Inquisition in the 18th century, Maria Valéria Rezende published, in 2019, Carta à Rainha Louca. In the novel, the narrator, Isabel, struggles to resist the violence of colonizers against women, blacks and the underprivileged, undertaking a profound analysis of social relations established in colonial Brazil. Based on the reflection on how reading and writing form the mainstay of the feminist struggle against patriarchy, which took root in Brazilian lands during colonization, this paper aims to analyze the relationship between literature and history according to the fruitful dialogue established by this book with some important themes in the work of Paulo Freire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Children and youth are typically positioned as passive subjects in learning, and when talking about working class children in particular, the common belief is that attendance at school institutions will translate into social displacement; that is, that children and young people from this economic segment who invest in the study will be able rise economically. It is in this context that recent public policies aimed at maintaining and extending the presence of children and young people in educational institutions can be understood. Some of these policies aim to guarantee access by blacks and the poor to higher education, from which they have been historically excluded. This paper reports on a qualitative study that addresses the motivations that make young people from lower classes feel called to seek participation in higher education, and what are the subjective consequences of this movement. The study focused on 23 university students, beneficiaries of the Quota Law or the University for All Program, from two recognized quality higher education institutions located in Rio de Janeiro. The results demonstrate that the support of family and peers, a passion for studying per se, identification with the university as a life path, and the expectation of upward social mobility were factors that contributed to motivating young people toward higher education. As far as the university is concerned, we found that it delivers contradictory messages to young people from the lower classes. For one, entering an institution historically destined for another social class can make young people feel that they don't belong there, which promotes uncertainties about the future. Faced with these challenges, poor young people are driven to "bet on themselves" as a way of overcoming the hardships of the present. However, it was also observed that many of these young people want to use their knowledge and university status to bring about changes in reality. It is concluded that the university in the neoliberal context can reinforce a model of individualistic subjectivation, but that, on the other hand, it can also operate to open lines of escape from this model, in instrumentalizing the poor young person for action towards the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The planet is currently experiencing a serious Covid-19 pandemic, which has been dramatically impacting health services and has claimed millions of lives worldwide. In underdeveloped countries like Brazil, a myriad of social inequities occurs, leading to the existence of different vulnerable population groups, such as the indigenous, quilombolas, and the most impoverished people, especially those living in the favelas. The impact of the pandemic on these vulnerable groups is much more intense when compared to the rest of the population because they have serious difficulties in preventing themselves from the disease and even from economic subsistence. The role of the State in protecting these groups is fundamental for the maintenance of dignity and, even, of life. In this context, Bioethics of Protection is shown to be an ideal guide for a more just and restorative implementation of public policies for these most vulnerable groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The growth of aquaculture as agribusiness and the intensification of production strategies have conditioned the search for high quality ingredients, for example, the feed that is the input that represents the highest individual percentage of expenses. In the Amazon region, extensive farming is seen as an alternative for low-income families. Therefore, the focus of the present article is to evaluate the water quality in tambaqui nurseries submitted to three treatments of rations with percentage substitutions of the commercial ration by a vegetal protein. The experiment was developed in 182 days in lowland area in the community of Estirão do Mamão in 2010, located in the municipality of Moju - PA. It was used 500 fish stocked in 13 nurseries excavated with an area of 50 m2, supplied individually with water from the Moju river, according to the level of the tide with densities of 1 fish / m2. During the experiment, the fish were fed according to the three treatments: I) 70% commercial feed + 30% cassava mass; II) 50% commercial ration + 50% cassava mass; III) 30% of commercial ration + 70% of manioc mass and the Testimony with 100% commercial ration. The treatments had no influence on fish growth and water quality, in which the most prominent variable was seasonality. Physical and chemical parameters, such as temperature, dissolved oxygen, EC and pH had a relationship with fish development. The nitrogen compounds did not have a modification throughout the development and did not influence the development of the fish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aimed to study Charles G. Leland's Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, one of the founding texts of Neopaganism and modern witchcraft. Leland's narrative served as the founding myth for Wicca and Stregheria, a sacred book that also influenced other texts in these two religions. In particular, this study analyzed the figure of the goddess Aradia, described in the book as the messiah of the witches, sent by her mother, the goddess Diana herself, to teach witchcraft to the oppressed poor people. This paper was divided into three moments. First, it is introduced the historical context of the production of the book. In the second section, the structure and characteristics of the sacred book are discussed. Finally, the figure of Aradia is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poor are victims of prejudiced and discriminatory practices, which are expressions of violence and motivated solely by their economic condition. For this reason, the theme of the present scientific work was inspired by the studies of the Adela Cortina on aporophobia, a term created to designate aversion of the poor people. In this context, it is intended, throughout this academic reflection, to demonstrate, through deductive and bibliographic research, that citizens are, by virtue of the constitutional principle of fraternity, impelled to adopt fraternal practices of recognition, respect and consideration for the poor people and, in the end, maintain that the fraternity is an antidote against aporophobia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the possibility of offering psychoanalytic treatment to people who cannot afford to pay monetarily for an analysis. To this end, texts by Freud, Lacan, and other authors of psychoanalysis were used, who discuss the problem of money and payment in the analysis as a bibliographic reference. In the history of the psychoanalytic movement, the creation of the first institution to offer free assistance to people with low income is resumed the Berlin Psychoanalytic Polyclinic, founded by Max Eitingon, engaged by Freud's ideas of psychoanalysis applied to the social. Focusing on the management of the payment issue in post-Freudian psychoanalytic institutions, the norms established by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) and the Psychoanalytical Consultation and Treatment Center (CPCT) in Paris are discussed, which was initially conducted by the psychoanalyst Hugo Freda, within the scope of the World Association of Psychoanalysis (AMP), as a way of positioning the psychoanalysis of Lacanian orientation before the movement for the regulation of psychotherapies in France. Besides, in the elaboration of this work, a reflection on the function of payment and its relationship with the symptom and enjoyment towards a psychoanalytic treatment was sought. Finally, it was found that the issue of payment is a fundamental variable to be considered when betting on the effectiveness of psychoanalysis applied to institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Education in the Rural Area, especially education developed in agrarian reform settlements in Brazil, is analyzed. The paper demonstrates that the establishment of the Thematic Complex System in rural settlement schools may be an important pedagogical alternative since it gives priority to concrete study through a theoretical and practical formation with the self-authorization of students and work as the educational principle. A bibliographical research was undertaken, based on authors who investigated studies on thematic complexes. The Thematic Complex System may contribute towards progress in the development of teaching and learning processes in rural schools from the perspective of labor, giving a learning opportunity for poor people living in the rural area through concrete situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of a research whose main objective is to analyze the role and performance of social movements, the black movement and, more specifically, cram schools for blacks and poor people (PVNC, in Portuguese) in the process of elaboration, implementation, and consolidation of affirmative action in Brazilian higher education. The second point of the present text presents results from the study concerning the genesis of the PVNC, its leading role in the affirmative field and the political perspective of one of its main leaders, Frei Davi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Right to health is one of the most important rights, once it is necessary to preserve human life itself. It also has a close connection with the dignity of the human person. However, the current scenario shows a great state neglect about this right effectuation. It generates, among others consequences, mysthanasia, or in other words, death anticipation in a miserable and suffered way. Thus, this paper will show problems using questions about: What is the effectuation of this right importance to everyone? How is mysthanasia still invisible in legal debates without charge the violator agent? How this phenomenon can hold as a social exclusion form institutionalized from poor people’s layers and extremely poor? Therefore, there is, as a main goal, a critical analysis about social euthanasia as a state inefficiency fruit and as an institutional phenomenon of populational layer exclusion connected to extreme poverty. And also, as specific objective, this paper aims to analyze the right to health, its relation with the dignity of the human person and with personality rights, and the necessity of its state effectuation, enabling, then, the analysis of mysthanasia in a critical way and of how this phenomenon can be shown as a social exclusion, mainly of the poorest population layers. Therefore, it used the hypothetical-deductive method and the literature review methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to present the genesis of social policy, from the first Law of the Poor in the fourteenth century to the neoliberal context of social policies in Brazil. A documentary and bibliographic study was carried out. In the fourteenth century lies the first law on poverty in Britain, which can be considered as one of the first social policies in the world. Until the eighteenth century other laws came to combat poverty, but much more punitive than welfare. The nineteenth century is marked by capitalism and the social struggle of the workers in search of rights. From the twentieth century to the present day, social policies have been linked to liberalism and neoliberalism. In the Brazilian context, social policies do not reach the objective of combating poverty, with palliative actions such as compensatory policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article updates a fundamental theme of the Conference of Puebla (1979), the preferential option for the poor, through dialogue with the theme of aversion by the poor, of the philosopher Adela Cortina. Presents the meanings of the preferential option for the poor inaugurated in Medellín and solemnly proclaimed in Puebla and shows how this option was assumed by the posterior documents, both in Latin America and in the universal magisterium; then systematizes some aspects of the Aporophobia and, at the end, proposes five theological-pastoral challenges: rediscover the option for the poor as Grace, realize the need for emotional involvement with the poor, discover the wealth of the poor and refuse the hate speech, reflect on ways to eliminate poverty and contribute to a new economy. In all this, the Magisterium of Francis is deeply illuminator. We can say that, with Pope Francis, a prophetic path of inclusion, coexistence and global responsibility is deepened, which turns visible and includes the poor and thus faces aporophobia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that the option for the poor offers an ethical imperative to analyze bioethical issues that are not restricted to the traditional discussion on the use of medical technology and the health professional-patient relationship. The author presents a bioethics in a liberationist key that integrates Catholic social teaching into healthcare issues and ethical challenges to promote justice through a public system based on the right to healthcare. This essay begins by examining the option for the poor, presented by Catholic social teaching, and how it relates to healthcare. Then, it analyses data and studies showing the relationship between poverty, illness and premature death. This analysis clearly demonstrates the existence of a vicious cycle: poverty, vulnerability to illnesses, lack of healthcare, and death. This dramatic reality must be ended because it is a threat to human life. Finally, the author suggests that a bioethics capable of responding to this challenge is yet to be built. The integration of Catholic social teaching into bioethics, with the option for the poor as an ethical imperative, offers resources for the construction of a liberating bioethics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper presents and discusses two of the most widely witnessed and described aspects of male and female costume worn by enslaved individuals in Brazil in the eighteenth through nineteenth centuries: on the one hand, poverty or lack of clothing; on the other hand, a profu - sion of documented jewellery and fabrics. The study analyzes the impressions and comments recorded by contemporaries, including moralizing observations that associated textile display with sin and the salvation of souls. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper discusses the peripheral relationships within a state's public school: circumstantial and singular occurrences defined by poverty and actual interference for improvements in the living conditions of the population. These are preliminary results of an investigation of ethnographic inspiration conducted in a school located in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul State), where 75% of the children are from families receiving regular payments from the government (Bolsa Família Program - Family Grant). Based on daily field notes, observations and open interviews, we tried to understand to what extent the Bolsa Família Program, which aims to inhibit child labor and keep children in school, is contributing to the improvement of process of teaching and learning in that place. The theoretical base of this paper is based on the work of Zygmunt Bauman. The study shows that, in that context, the Bolsa Família program is sometimes criticized by the teaching staff of the school, due to its welfare characteristic and it is sometimes used as an excuse to ignore students' absences, under the argument that the school cannot cause conflicts with the families. In both cases, the people of the place are being harmed: first, because the income redistribution has been a way of discursively disqualifying their existence and second, because when children have their absences ignored, the commitment of the family with the teaching process is automatically being dismissed. Furthermore, the results of evaluations, such as "Prova Brasil", that analyzes socioeconomic and educational information, are misinterpreted because the low scores tend to indicate the ineffectiveness of a program that was not actually introduced in the school context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The theme of the article is the analysis of the social-educational process that occurs as a result of the participation of individuals and groups in solidarity economy movements and the contribution of the university in this process, through university extension projects. Thus, as an object of study presents a project of university extension in low-income sector in the Grande ABC Paulista. Three questions assisted in this analysis, they are: 1. The solidarity economy movements enable the development of the sense of citizenship of those who participate in them? 2. What are the characteristics of the social-educational process in these solidarity economic movements? 3. The action of the university accelerates the social-educational process of individual and groups participating in the solidarity economy movement? Thus, one of the objectives of the article was to understand the characteristics of the movements of the solidarity economy, specifically with regard to socio-educational processes present in such movements and to characterize the university involvement. The investigation sees the university as a possible subject present in these processes. In developing this analysis, the paper aims to develop an understanding of the contribution of the university to the learning process inherent to participation in the movement. The analysis was based on the concepts of solidarity economy, the process of individual and group learning and emancipatory education. We used a qualitative research method called action research. This method enables the researcher's participation both in decision making about the reality and the subsequent reflection on the process occurred and the consequent production of scientific knowledge about the process. The results showed that the entrepreneurs who participated in the extension project acquired knowledge and concepts necessary to manage their investments and might perceive themselves as active subjects in the process of strengthening the solidarity economy. The participants oriented on this discussion, also concluded about the possibility of mobilization and participation in public spaces with their difficulties and benefit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the 1990s, Brazil experienced a dense and meaningful transformation in perception on poverty. These changes occurred within the formulation of public politics which resulted in the "Bolsa Família Program" in the early 2000s. In this article, I follow this broad historical process, specifying relations occurred in the city of Uberlândia, MG, Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Solar heaters are an appropriate technology for tropical and subtropical climate to warm bath water through the energy from the sunlight. The development of conventional solar heaters is in the market and its acceptance is still low due to high cost. However, low-cost solar heaters have been developed in recent years for the care of a potential consumer demand, which in addition to using a renewable energy provides significant reductions in energy consumption. Environmental issue has highlighted towards current world problems. Our project proposal is to promote the construction of solar water heater based on the technique developed in Santa Catarina by José Alcino Alano, 2004 NGO Super Ecology prize winner, sponsored by Super Interessante magazine. They are built by using recyclable materials such as PET bottles and long life milk cartons reducing costs and using "junk" in order to produce thermal energy. This equipment has been patented with the intention that there would be exploited by companies for profit, and its design is of public domain. The objective of this study is to analyze the profile of potential users of solar water heaters at low cost. Thus, lectures and practical activities for rural and local low-income communities were performed in order to show how to build effective heating systems with recyclable materials and install them in the houses and show its economic feasibility as well as thermal comfort afforded and benefits to environment generated by the system, providing a free guide to building the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Children with delayed development of language functions can have difficulty reading and writing. Social problems can exacerbate situations of failure, while access to specialized services for the reduction or elimination of these difficulties is restricted, and costly for low-income families. The aim of the present study was therefore to develop and offer a program of cognitive-behavioral intervention to children in a public school, in order to stimulate changes in lexical processing, and determine its effectiveness in reducing deficiencies. After a meeting at the school, and with parental consent, 40 children were evaluated, considering the phonological, lexical, and semantic aspects of language, using the Neuropsychological Lexical Processing Assessment Set. Five children, aged six to 10 years, with performance below expectations for their age in some of the tasks, were included in the stimulation program. The children were invited to participate in an intervention, which comprised the second stage of the project. In the intervention, the children were subjected to a psycholinguistics stimulation program consisting of tasks aimed at stimulating functions that were mainly related to the performance of reading and writing. The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences. A descriptive statistical analysis was first used to identify those children that were below the standard deviation of the first tasks in the assessment set, and the analysis was repeated after reassessment of the children following the intervention activities. The comparative statistical results demonstrated the effect of the psycholinguistic program. Gains in the interest and participation of the children in the school activities were also observed by teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The social exclusion of the basic rigths of a great number of people, arisen by the increasing of the social inequality, requires strategies that may contribute to the formation of active individuals in their communities. Through an intervention of interns from the fifth year of Psychology, based on the Community Psychology discipline, in a nongovernmental organization, located in the suburbs of São Paulo, group activities with parents/grandparents were developed with the objective of promoting the exchange of experiences among the group participants and guiding them about matters related to their children and/or grandchildren's education. Through a participative methodology, institutional/community information with the parents/granparents' life historical were elaborated, resulting in an intervention that valued the subjective experiences as an instrument to find out the real meaning of the parents/granparents' role and of their empowerment as citizens, even revealing this empowerment as partners of the institution, searching for solutions collectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The faith of the poor has an internal logic that is necessary to deepen in order to identify the contribution that logic can offer to the processes of the new evangelization in the Church and of the continental mission proposed by Aparecida. Within the confession of faith understood in its epistemological and ethical levels, the faith of the poor is characterized in its dimensions of minority, resistance and wonder and its relationship with faith and hope. A new ministerial dynamic emerges as necessary for a new evangelization of the continent which includes the Ministry of theologians (male and female) in an adult relation with the pastors and the Magisterium of the Church. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]