Algo alem de tirar as crianças da rua

Abstract

The growth of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) units and interventions, considering the Brazilian scenario, brings out another area of sports. Known as social or educational sport, it is regarded as an instrument that contributes to the development of its public -which can be children, teenagers, adults or old people -in social projects. Investigating which pedagogic treatment the sport should get and which characteristics should be considered in order to plan a social program through sport were the goals of this research. Oriented by ethnography and making use of oral history methodology, the focus of the study was the impact on the life of a young people group from Heliópolis community brought by their participation in a socialeducational project that used sports as main basis between years 2003 and 2005.