Miguel Badra is one of the poorest areas of São Paulo city. This area doesn’t have any infrastructure for sanitation, electricity, clean water, health care or recreation.

The needs in these communities are immense but children and teenagers are always more vulnerable to the negative effects of poverty and public neglect.

The conditions these children face exhaust childhood of all its joy and destroy the right of normal physical and mental development.

House of Joy

The Overall Goal

A strengthening of children and families in suburban slum communities in order that they children have a chance to develop to their full potential.

The Purpose

The holistic (physical, social, emotional, cognitive and spiritual) development of suburban slum children through an educational play approach, which considers children’s’ needs based on their reality and their understandings, and is conducted in a safe space and a Christian environment.