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Engajamento social e seu poder de transformação | Amanda Teixeira | TEDxUNIFEI


Good, I’ll start a question that
truth has already been made here does not leave
flight
Do you remember what you
answered when the question was what
Do you want to be when I grow up ?
I remember well
I still kid I’ve wanted to be
child teacher
the time passed and I grew up
more and more in love with math
and at that time I began to hear this
Girl is going to be an engineer.
so it’s time to get into the
college
I chose electrical engineering but the
the semester went by and I started to
to feel that something was missing
that side this girl is going to be
Engineering work had filled more
the side when I grow up I want to be
child teacher was not
and today when I look back I
I can fully understand what
meant a 7-year-old
because the child’s teacher was
screaming at that moment was that I
I liked people I wanted to work with.
with people but like we solve
This I made a decision was very
difficult for me at the time it was
take over was already with the cerrado
It was clear to you, right?
so I started looking for a
engineering allowed me to unite
and human that it was in engineering
production
but more than that I went into a
called an engineer without frontiers and
together these two decisions were
responsible for the balance
I was able to apply everything in the community
What we learn engineering
the main objective of the NGO and I
I was able to develop people working
on the board of the NGO
and in fact it was perfect
I quickly fell in love with work
volunteer and from my first day
in the organization all energy that I tim
was so that it should more and more
sure and we could achieve each
more people
I’ll try to show you one
example of how all this was so
intense and transformative for me
in a certain year we decided to do
an easter campaign
we always did this to people
collects chocolate leads to
children in rural communities of
itabira
or daycare centers and that usually
They were for children that we knew
otherwise it might not have been
the opportunity to win a chocolate in the
Easter, but this year a
special thing in our team that the
people started to notice that he had
lots of people living on the street
We thought we’d hit it.
your child if we now have a
other public that we can also
reach
I remember that arose in the team
questioning thus will it do
We’re going to give you a box of
candy for people who do not have
absolutely nothing to eat
I do not think so, we set up the
kit and we put water juice cookie
fruit and also the box of candy that the
was meant to represent the Passover
people will deliver when we arrive
at the delivery location, we noticed that
the number of people was much higher than
the number of teams and now what
People do and we think I will.
then deliver the kits only to the
children and we ask that she
shares this kit with families
At this time I thought people were kids.
they will get a chocolate not to share and
will deliver the rest to the
families and I’m sure it will
happen but in reality the line
At the time we gave the kit, I
I remember one of the children opening the
package
the first thing she said was look
There’s water
I already told this story, his friend.
and every time I tell I
I thrill because you look at a
child who had a box of candy and
a bottle of water and the first thing
that she did and takes the water bottle and
she took it as if it were the last one
thing that exists on earth and
It’s over with me, I’m back home.
with a feeling that has no word
in the world that allows me to translate and now
I ask you
who has benefited from this story
community
I and my team respond to you with
every conviction of us and I
I believe that it is at this moment that the
Engagement happens when the entire network
can be reached and transformed
but how does this happen in practice?
Let’s go by parts I coordinated a project
the NGO that the goal is us
awaken entrepreneurship in
children in situations of
social vulnerability and we want to
to show them is the reality that
they have today may be different
tomorrow but that does not mean in
hypothesis in inducing this
child leaving the community
much less induced her to seek wealth
What do we want to show her?
It could be that she wants with the profession
Do you want to be a bricklayer? I want to be.
teacher wants to be a doctor does not matter
as long as you put all your soul
and all your love in what you
Do you realize the power
transformer that this has
when we look with affection and with
watch out for a child teach her
certain values encourage
dream and fulfill your dreams
People are not just turning here.
reality this child we are
transforming the entire community in which
is inserted
because it is at this moment that people
start what we already know
by chain of good
and it is at this moment that a whole
community begins to be transformed into
another another transformation
happens the personal transformation
imagine you a wheel of children of
Small eyes
maybe with too little to live longer
with a heart full of dreams you
delivery to a blank sheet speaks
so she draws anything
that you dream anything not
it matters
draw your dream they begin to
draw and then they will show
the relations partners tell the
Colleagues, this dream, some lines.
toys another room TV and even
a bed but a child comes and talks
that her dream is that the mother to the
baby and let the father come home
this moves you
This messed with me because I saw
that of a child who at that moment
I was holding a blank sheet in my hand.
that she could put anything that
she wanted there non- existing material
or not but that’s what she wants
that’s what she dreamed of in another
thing I find very curious in this
process of personal development with
he sees volunteering is that he comes
from all sides
a person may cross your path
only once in your life and never
more cross again she turns
and maybe she’ll never know it
and that’s what happened in a campaign
that we have collected
food when we went out at
the center of the city asking for
food and then we took it
countryside
We arrived at a house that, by the way
it was very very simple and people
asked the resident if she
accepted our food donation
she looked at us, she said so you
They are giving me the donation asking me
we said we’re here of the year
Do you want to accept us?
acting
She said I can donate the last one.
question that I expected to hear clearly and
she talks about her pack of pasta
she handed it to us she said the
next a while ago
I had absolutely nothing to
eating and thank god receiving help
today I have little but what little I
I have enough to share with
someone who needs more than me and
one more bit of me was
transformed
I started to look around my things
that I did not notice before, I started
feel the pain of the other sick and today I
I try to look at each person who crosses the
my way as a special unique being
and still has another transformation
what happens when the engagement sees
as a whole that the transformation of the
our team team
if you ask me today what was the
The most spoken phrase
these my almost five years in the NGO I
I would answer or think
no volunteer should leave here without
be transformed
it has to be transformed both by
experience that he will see the
community and transformation
that we as an organization
we will provide him and every time
we shut the cycle to the people
gave space at the end so that everyone
volunteers who want to express
something say anything
they wanted
We always hear someone talking.
about how much it has been transformed into
There were people who spoke
I never imagined
leading a team that discovered that
was passionate about this when he had the
opportunity to coordinate some other
team
We would listen to people saying that
before they had a microphone sonic
panic of public speaking and that
have discovered that they are passionate about
That’s when you start giving lectures.
about the NGO or when they started
to talk about financial education a
room full of people but still has a
another transformation happens that
fills my heart with hope in
our team begins to incorporate the
volunteering with a lifestyle and
this is the point
we often mistakenly think
beauty of volunteering passing through
things are harder to do
build a house knows tomorrow
to make food collection
but the beauty of volunteering is not
in the person where you become the beauty
Volunteering is in you gave your
place on the bus
to teach to some person what
you know more than she looked one
person who feels hunger and that really
o you and you do something
to help her
is very simple but often the
people can not do this because
people are not connected with the world
have already stopped to observe how people
lives in the automatic
We get up in the morning and go to work.
Come back home and the next day, people.
everything starts again
we look
one unconsciously we think so
It’s not my problem, but when we
reconnect with the world
we look at the same problem and
People think this problem is mine too.
people are getting more and more
empathy clothes and I need to talk to
you
how much I’m in love with this
word
I think my favorite word in the
world and empathy it has a meaning
much deeper than we think
It’s so much more than you put yourself in
place of the other
Are you putting yourself in the other’s shoes?
in the situation where the other is
It’s different from when we talk.
like this
if I were in his place I would never have
done that
If I were your place I would not have
let the situation get to the point where
has arrived
now activating empathy I do not know the
what would i do if i had it in its place
and seeing the things that you have lived and
being the person that you but I
I sympathize with you and I’m here.
to help you
perceived the difference when people
reconnect with the world, let’s do it
understand that I’m only here, I’m alone.
existed because you exist
I’m only because ours recently
and asked me a question.
to write on paper
the answer to that, what is your
mission in the world
and I ask you
What is your mission in the world?
answer
I could not at that time I thought
I thought
Hey, a frustration has invaded but I do not
I get to answer I was thinking
How can I not respond?
What is my mission in the world that
thing that makes us get up every day
in the morning
that business that we call
reason for being
I could not answer, I left
my blank sheet today a little more
mature and having lived a little over
experience
I can understand why in that
time I did not answer that question
because I believe that our mission
It’s us who do its mission.
you who do is the sum of all that
that you have lived with everything you
did you already feel and with all that
you believe
My sheet is no longer in
White
I wrote my mission in the world
is to transform positively
each person who crossed his path and
consequently make the world a place
better and now I ask you
What is the mission you want to have in the
world
thanks
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