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process, offering environmental awareness, social interaction and child stimulation,
reflecting the playing process as facilitating resource, in addiction to empowering
the population.
Keywords Education · Sustainable development · Children · University extension
1 Introduction: The Accessibility for the Act of Playing
and the Sustainable Development in a Context of Social
Vulnerability
The city of Santos, with 434 thousand citizens (Brasil 2017a, b), belongs to the Group
1 in the Social Responsibility Index of São Paulo. It is formed by cities that present
high level of wealth, longevity and schooling. According to the Social Vulnerability
Index from São Paulo, it can be noticed that a great part of the population live in
areas with extremely low, very low or low vulnerability (São Paulo 2010).
However, the Slums, the Centre and the Northwestern areas of Santos are known
and permeated by a higher level of vulnerability in relation to the other areas. Aspects
such as bad living conditions and basic sanitation are taken into consideration. Vulnerability, for Galheigo (2011), is a concept used in different areas of knowledge and
practices. It is related, in general, to situations of insecurity and the risk which exist
in different dimensions of life.
Regarding the context of the city previously presented and after, the students of
“Trabalho em Saúde” module in the Federal University of São Paulo campus Baixada
Santista (UNIFESP/BS) visited the Family Support Center (CAF) “Vim aqui só pra
te ver”, the idea of structuring a University Extension Project emerged. The Family
Support Center is located in the Northwestern area and they went there in 2010. The
project’s intention was to cooperate with the situation presented and to promote a
sustainable action by giving another meaning to scraps thrown in the draining system
of the region. The Family Support Center receives children and adolescents in a very
vulnerable situation, who stay in the Centre after/before school or all the day long
so their parents could work. It is a small place, with a poor structure and without any
schedule of activities. The children/adolescents used to live near there, most of them
in stilt houses in the Casqueiro river and they used to throw the garbage in the river,
mangrove or in the draining systems around the place where they lived.
So the University Extension Project “Baú de Histórias”, which works with scraps
in need of sensory stimuli and social deprivation, was established in order to show
them how to reuse and redefine those materials through playful activities based on
people’s imagination. The recyclable materials were also used in workshops after
activities. Anyhow, the project aims children to give different uses to those materials.
It’s important to point out that, in this article, the definition of scraps as a term
referred to wastes with different types and origins was adopted (Melo et al. 2007).
The playful activities are based on the playfulness concept brought by Luckesi
(1994):
V. G. Assis da Silva et al.
process, offering environmental awareness, social interaction and child stimulation,
reflecting the playing process as facilitating resource, in addiction to empowering
the population.
Keywords Education · Sustainable development · Children · University extension
1 Introduction: The Accessibility for the Act of Playing
and the Sustainable Development in a Context of Social
Vulnerability
The city of Santos, with 434 thousand citizens (Brasil 2017a, b), belongs to the Group
1 in the Social Responsibility Index of São Paulo. It is formed by cities that present
high level of wealth, longevity and schooling. According to the Social Vulnerability
Index from São Paulo, it can be noticed that a great part of the population live in
areas with extremely low, very low or low vulnerability (São Paulo 2010).
However, the Slums, the Centre and the Northwestern areas of Santos are known
and permeated by a higher level of vulnerability in relation to the other areas. Aspects
such as bad living conditions and basic sanitation are taken into consideration. Vulnerability, for Galheigo (2011), is a concept used in different areas of knowledge and
practices. It is related, in general, to situations of insecurity and the risk which exist
in different dimensions of life.
Regarding the context of the city previously presented and after, the students of
“Trabalho em Saúde” module in the Federal University of São Paulo campus Baixada
Santista (UNIFESP/BS) visited the Family Support Center (CAF) “Vim aqui só pra
te ver”, the idea of structuring a University Extension Project emerged. The Family
Support Center is located in the Northwestern area and they went there in 2010. The
project’s intention was to cooperate with the situation presented and to promote a
sustainable action by giving another meaning to scraps thrown in the draining system
of the region. The Family Support Center receives children and adolescents in a very
vulnerable situation, who stay in the Centre after/before school or all the day long
so their parents could work. It is a small place, with a poor structure and without any
schedule of activities. The children/adolescents used to live near there, most of them
in stilt houses in the Casqueiro river and they used to throw the garbage in the river,
mangrove or in the draining systems around the place where they lived.
So the University Extension Project “Baú de Histórias”, which works with scraps
in need of sensory stimuli and social deprivation, was established in order to show
them how to reuse and redefine those materials through playful activities based on
people’s imagination. The recyclable materials were also used in workshops after
activities. Anyhow, the project aims children to give different uses to those materials.
It’s important to point out that, in this article, the definition of scraps as a term
referred to wastes with different types and origins was adopted (Melo et al. 2007).
The playful activities are based on the playfulness concept brought by Luckesi
(1994):