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Dona Severina’s Family House Project

In the early nineties Dona Severina, a widow of limited resources herself-illiterate and from a destitute background, but trained as a dressmaker-began to take in abandoned children.
By 1992 she had twenty four children under her care, all living in her own small, two-roomed house, living from local donations.
It was then that Dona Severina's orphanage-home came to the attention of the Margarite D'Amelio Children's Foundation who, through their benefactors, provided the funds to add on an additional two large rooms (one large dormitory-style bedroom for the girls and one for the boys) plus washroom facilities. Other benefactors provided funds for food for the children. With the assistance of a member of the local Rotary Club, Marilda (a pediatrician), acting as the local project coordinator, the Margarite D'Amelio Foundation assisted Dona Severina for over a decade.
Since the closing of the Margarite D'Amelio Children's Foundation in 2006, Generous Hearts took over the project in partnership with the Instituto Vitoria humana (IVH), providing daily meals for the 60 children living in Dona Severina's orphanage.
Currently Generous Hearts and IVH work hard to put in practice principles from the “Brazilian statute of the children and adolescent”, with absolute priority to children’s rights to life, health, feeding, education, dignity, respect, freedom and integration into the community.
This presentation shows recent renovations made possible with resources from Generous Hearts, IVH and the Ross Foundation.

Dona Severina’s Family House Project

In the early nineties Dona Severina, a widow of limited resources herself-illiterate and from a destitute background, but trained as a dressmaker-began to take in abandoned children.

By 1992 she had twenty four children under her care, all living in her own small, two-roomed house, living from local donations.

Since the closing of the Margarite D'Amelio Children's Foundation in 2006, Generous Hearts took over the project in partnership with the Instituto Vitoria humana (IVH), providing daily meals for the 60 children living in Dona Severina's orphanage.

Currently Generous Hearts and IVH work hard to put in practice principles from the “Brazilian statute of the children and adolescent”, with absolute priority to children’s rights to life, health, feeding, education, dignity, respect, freedom and integration into the community.

This presentation shows recent renovations made possible with resources from Generous Hearts, IVH and the Ross Foundation.