SESI Citizenship

SESI Citizenship is locally implemented whenever new UPPs are installed at each location.[6] Its goal is to bring leisure activities and social services for the inhabitants of the region - some of them in a permanent way.[7] According to previous researches that identify the main needs of each community,[8] it is created a plan of what will be offered to residents.[9] By the way, some of them are even hired to perform certain functions, such as: monitor the progress of work; identify the local needs further; promote, explain and enroll residents in activities and courses offered by the program.[10] The so-called "SESI Citizenship Agents" also encourage people to learn how to read and write for the first time.[11]

The program contemplates some specific activities:[12]

• Vocational education – Workshops and laboratories that prepare the student for the labor market;
• Basic education – Elementary and secondary school for youth and adults,[13] in addition to pre-Enem, tutoring, languages, computers, mathematics and budgeting;[14]
• Athlete of the future – Leisure and citizenship teaching through sports activities for children and teenagers, seeking also to train future athletes;[note 1][15]
• Knowledge industry – Spreads culture and education[16] while assembling in communities like Andaraí and Cidade de Deus[17] libraries and digital inclusion spaces, as well as offering workshops, lectures and cultural attractions.[18] Two partners in this initiative are Futura Channel (which offers television programming)[19] and the Brazilian Academy of Letters (which helps to create and maintain libraries in communities of Rio de Janeiro,[20] what includes the training of manpower);[21]
• Seniors SESI Program – Activities for people over fifty years of age, such as physical exercise, nutritional and psychological counseling, medical care and sociocultural actions as "memory workshops and storytelling;"[22]
• Culture – Cultural programs and workshops for residents on graffiti, photography, percussion, hip hop music and theater;[23]
• Kitchen Brazil – Nutritionists teach the full utilization of food in order to improve eating habits;[24][25]
• Health – Offices of gynaecology, internal medicine, dental and pediatrics[26] to prevent health problems;
• SESI in Action – Services like issuing documents (identity card, social security number, work ID, birth certificate), recreation for children, craft workshops and painting,[27] lectures on basic care (brushing teeth, for example), medical tests (measurement of blood pressure, blood glucose testing, body mass index), legal consultation and distribution of books;[28]
• Lego Project - Uses Lego pieces to stimulate the learning of "logical and mathematical thinking and the basics of physics", including ethical and moral values, interpersonal relationship and teamwork.[29]

• Crime
• Favela
• Entertainment

• SESI Citizenship (in Portuguese)
• FIRJAN System
• Pacifying Police Units (UPP)