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    <updated>2026-04-09T19:23:05+02:00</updated>
    
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            <title type="text">Corona Year 2020: 5 moving positive news from the Nazareno Village for Children</title>
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                                            In times when there seems to be bad news in the newspapers every day, good news creates room for optimism again. Despite the Corona pandemic, which has hit people in Brazil&#039;s poor neighbourhoods particularly hard, these stories provide reason for optimism.
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                 In times when there seems to be bad news in the newspapers every day, good news creates space for optimism again. Therefore, we would like to share some moving news from the children&#039;s village &quot;Der kleine Nazareno&quot; supported by AMAZONAS. Despite the Corona pandemic, which has hit the people in the poor areas of Brazil particularly hard, these stories provide reason for optimism. 
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   A story like a fairy tale - a family torn apart finds its way back together again    With the support of &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot; , Raniel&#039;s mother has broken free from her drug addiction and is reunited with her family (see picture above). It all looks like a good life is now ahead for the family. Raniel and his brothers are living with their mother again. Ray, Raniel&#039;s older brother has found an apprenticeship as a salesman. The younger brother is given financial support for football training, which may enable him to realise his dream of a football career. The mother can still work part-time as a cleaning lady in the premises of &quot; kleiner Nazareno&quot;. 
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  Diego (18) has his first day of work at the supermarket after 11 years with the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot;  
 11 years ago, when he was seven years old, Diego was taken in by the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot;.&amp;nbsp; He didn&#039;t live on the street, but in a house with a hole in the ceiling, together with his drug-addicted mother.  Today, Diego, who is now of age, works part-time in a supermarket  where he has been given an apprenticeship. Due to the Corona pandemic, he cannot attend school at the moment. His salary as an apprentice is not enough to finance his livelihood, so he continues to be supported by the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot; and is always welcome there. 
     
  200 apprenticeships for young people thanks to Petrobrás project   Every two years, the oil company Petrobrás selects 80 projects from thousands of project applications, which they then finance for two years. After many failed attempts to support the community of Vicente Pinzón with such a project, the project applications were examined for deficiencies and revised. With success: the new project application of the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot;  came first  out of 68 projects selected by the expert commission from 1,590 applications.   
   
 Within the framework of the project, Little Nazareno places  200 young people  in companies and thus helps them find an apprenticeship. The &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot; also provides theoretical instruction. For this and for many other projects, various street workers and social workers are employed, financed by Petrobrás. 
     
  New sports centre to boost girls&#039; self-confidence  As soon as the pandemic allows, it is planned to build a sports centre for young people from Maranguape and Tabatinga, two nearby towns. For this purpose, the area of the already existing football field has been tripled. The young people are taught sports four times a week, half-day, with a focus on football and running.  Girls from the poor districts of Tabatinga and Maranguape are particularly invited to participate . The main priority is to  strengthen the girls&#039; self-confidence through sport , so that they are better able to cope with the challenges in their families and in the slums. Sport also opens up new perspectives for the girls, in a protected space with plenty of room for development. 
     
  Carlos, Bernardo&#039;s adopted son, has found his family again after 27 years  Probably the most unbelievable story is that of Carlos, a boy whom Bernardo (founder and director of the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot;) adopted 19 years ago. He has found his family again after 27 years. Since Carlos was taken in by Little Nazareno at the age of seven, the search for his family has been unsuccessful. But that was about to change. After years of unsuccessful searching, everything suddenly happened very quickly. An employee distributed posters and flyers with Carlos&#039; picture, then and now, and the names of his family that were known. After two weeks, Carlos&#039; supposed brother came forward and told a heartbreaking story about the death of his mother, who, on her deathbed, was still saying that she regretted never having found her son (Carlos) again. But the rest of the family would look forward to seeing him again. The story is also published in an article, so Bernardo and Carlos also learn that everything is a lie. The shock is great. A second article is published reporting on the fraud. By chance, this article reached Carlos&#039; uncle, who immediately called his sister and just shouted  &quot;We found your son! We found your son!&quot;  For the full detailed story, go here.   
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                            <updated>2021-01-14T12:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">The story of the lost son who returns home after 27 years</title>
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                                            Probably the most incredible story is that of Carlos, Bernardo&#039;s (founder and director of Kleiner Nazareno e.V.) adopted son. He found his family again after 27 years.
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                 Probably the most incredible story is that of Carlos, Bernardo&#039;s (founder and director of Kleiner Nazareno e.V.) adopted son. He found his family again after 27 years. Fortunately, the families of all the children and young people who have been taken in by the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot; so far have been located. So far, every child has found his way back home, either through the parents&#039; efforts or through contacts with reporters from newspapers, television and radio. Only for Carlos it was different. &amp;nbsp; 
  Due to domestic violence, Carlos runs away from home at the age of seven  At the  age of seven , Carlos ran away during a violent confrontation between his mother and stepfather. Out of desperation, he got on the first bus he could find and immediately fell asleep from sheer tiredness. What he could not have known was that his bus would not take him to another part of town,  but would take him further and further away, hour by hour, from all the people with whom he had been familiar and whom he loved.  His unwanted journey took him all the way to Fortaleza and hundreds of kilometres away from his home. When he got off the bus, his life was over. His life was completely turned upside down and all because he could not protect his mother from the violent attacks of his stepfather. From one day to the next he was a street child, sleeping on park benches, and at the age of seven he was completely on his own.  From then on, he lived alone on the street . He did not know the name of his home village or could not remember it. This made it almost impossible to find his family.    Carlos finds a new family with the &quot;little Nazareno&quot;   From there, he was taken in by the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot; and  the search for his family began.  His travels with an educator from the Nazareno village were  unsuccessful,  and even a lengthy report on television about his life story and the search for his family did not lead to any concrete clues. This did not change after he was adopted by Bernardo. The years passed. Maria, his daughter was born and the search for his family seemed like a closed chapter in his life.   
   
  Bernardo has not yet given up hope of finding his son&#039;s family  However, after talking to his son, Bernardo realised that the fact that Carlos never found his family would always be a hole in his heart. With that, he had a new mission. He resolved to dedicate the next 10 years of his life to the search for his son&#039;s family, in addition to his many activities around little Nazareno, and  he used all the means at his disposal.  The decisive factor was a reporter who had read the appeal Bernardo had written after the conversation with his son and Antonio Carlos, a co-worker of the &quot;kleiner Nazareno&quot;. He set out with 2,000 flyers showing a photo of Carlos 27 years ago and one from today, as well as the dates that were known: Mother&#039;s first name (Geane) and brother&#039;s first name (Diego).   
   
  Will years of searching finally lead to success?  After years of unsuccessful searching, everything suddenly happened very quickly. Antonio had not even been in Juazeiro do Norte for a day when the decisive call came:  &quot;I&#039;m Clécio and I&#039;ve seen the poster,&quot; he heard a voice on the other side of the line. &quot;My mother&#039;s name is Geane and my brother&#039;s name is Diego.&quot;  Antônio Carlos first insisted on photos, which Clécio promptly sent him, before talking to Clécio at length on the phone. And he told a heartbreaking story: Carlos&#039; mother had died of cancer two years ago. Still on her deathbed, she spoke about Carlos and regretted not having set in motion more efforts to find her son.  He would have already notified the whole family and everyone would be looking forward to seeing them again!   The excitement of finding the family again was great but clouded by the sadness of the mother&#039;s death. And now the reporter comes into play, because without him the family could never have been located. He worked through the night and published an article that had it all. In the pandemic, news that spreads hope and joy. The article received 70,000 likes and 1,350 comments after a few hours.    
  No happy ending after all? - Carlos was the victim of a huge lie  Everything seemed fine until the shocking news arrived:  it&#039;s all a lie!  The motives of the alleged brother are unclear. The shock and grief were naturally great. Now the reporter comes into play for the second time, because he was naturally angry and did not know how to deal with the situation at first. There was a crisis meeting with the entire editorial staff of the newspaper.  Carlos and Bernardo had to send all Clécio&#039;s messages to the newspaper, with the result that everyone realised how they had been taken in by Clécio. Another long article about this appeared in the newspaper.   
  All&#039;s well that ends well - a family reunites after 27 years  It was this second article that by chance fell into the hands of Patricía from Santarèm, a few thousand kilometres away from the Nazareno village. She read the article to her husband Josinaldo. He turned out to be Carlos&#039; uncle and immediately called his sister:  &quot;We found your son! We found your son!&quot;  It took some time for Bernardo and Carlos to hear some of this news too, and then they were naturally more suspicious than the first time. But when the family sent a photo of Carlos it was clear:  they had found his family!  Since then the phone has not stopped ringing, he is not only the prodigal son coming home again, but also the grandchild, the uncle, ... On Sunday 6 December 2020, mother and son are finally in each other&#039;s arms for the first time in 27 years. 
 And to answer Carlo&#039;s question: No, his mother never stopped looking for him. She desperately visited all the homes, went to all the police stations, spoke to all kinds of people on the street, was depressed and her face is also marked by life. Thousands and thousands of people have contributed, through a simple click, to a mother being able to say quite honestly:  &quot;I am the happiest mother in the whole world! My love for my son has won!&quot;       
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                            <updated>2021-01-14T12:00:00+01:00</updated>
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            <title type="text">Charity Project &quot;Der kleine Nazareno&quot;</title>
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                                             In order to enable the children a humane existence, the association &quot;Der Kleine Nazareno e.V.&quot; was founded in 1994. In the last ten years, two Nazareno villages were created in this way, which today are a new home for more than 110 children.
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                   &quot;We from AMAZONAS have personally visited this project on site. It moved us, moved us a lot and convinced us that we will support it with 20,000 Euros annually. So we, and you as a customer, can not only bring work and progress to Brazil through hammock production, but also create a future for Brazilian street children.”   
 In Brazil, about  32,000 children live completely neglected  on the streets.  Every day they fight for their survival  and against the reality: hunger, cold, prostitution and drugs - while living in constant  fear of violent attacks by gangs and the police.  
   
 In order to enable the children a humane existence, the association  &quot;Der Kleine Nazareno e.V.&quot;  was founded in 1994. In the last ten years, two Nazareno villages were created in this way, which today are  a new home for more than 110 children.  
   
 The Nazareno villages, located outside the centers of Fortaleza and Recife, offer the children  accommodation where they are looked after around the clock . From the first day on, they attend one of the  state-approved schools  with the option to attend a secondary school. From the age of 15, the lessons are supplemented by practical vocational training.    Subsequently, the children are  supported in their search for work  and accompanied step by step until they finally stand on their own two feet.  We are in regular and close contact with the founder and director of the aid organization. 
   
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                            <updated>2020-06-30T08:00:00+02:00</updated>
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