It is time for another assembly of the Rural Family House, an association formed by country people, ex-students and people who believe in this proposal. The Comboni family present in Açailândia is part of this project, being directly involved Dida and Xoán, Liliana and Flávio, and Fr. Joseph.
The house offers a three-year technical course in agriculture and cattle raising, combined with high school, through the alternating cycle pedagogy.
There is a song that says: “I won’t leave the countryside to go to school. Education in the countryside is a right, not a handout.”
The goal of this space is exactly this! By enabling young people from the countryside to improve the profitability of family property, we reduce the rural exodus and promote family farming, also inserting agro-ecological techniques.
The school serves students from Açailândia, neighboring towns, and also from more distant cities, with students from three different states (Maranhão, Pará and Tocantins).
In the debate about the challenges faced by the school and that involve financial costs, one of the mothers present pointed out, “We are an association, we can collaborate and with the little of each one, we will get what is necessary.”
And so we go sowing in the collective construction the search for better conditions for farmers and peasants, and with this generate a seed of a better world.
CLM Brazil
