Diane Pereira Sousa
Ashoka Fellow since 2018   |   Brazil

Diane Pereira Sousa

Instituto Formação – Incubadora de Esporte e Cidadania
Diane Sousa is changing the demand of children and young people for the human right to play and to practice different sports in a safe and inclusive way in marginalized rural and urban areas by the…
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This description of Diane Pereira Sousa's work was prepared when Diane Pereira Sousa was elected to the Ashoka Fellowship in 2018.

Introduction

Diane Sousa is changing the demand of children and young people for the human right to play and to practice different sports in a safe and inclusive way in marginalized rural and urban areas by the resignification of community spaces (squares and schools). With innovative methodologies, she wantsRead more

The New Idea

Diane Sousa has the right to play and practice sports in safe and inclusive environments as a guide principle to her innovation. She created the Sports and Citizenship Incubator at Instituto Formação to design, execute, manage, disseminate and monitor different methodologies that use sport andRead more

The Problem

Although it is a right guaranteed by law, stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Children (1989), the Federal Constitution of Brazil (1988) and the Statute of the Child and Adolescent (1990), being part of some public policies, access to play sports in safe and inclusive environments forRead more

The Strategy

The resignification of community spaces - squares and schools - for the use of sport is key to Diane's strategy to increase the demand of children and adolescents for sports and play in a safe and inclusive way and to empower youth citizens to social change. In creating the Sports and CitizenshipRead more

The Person

Diane grew up in the poor northeast of Brazil in a difficult family situation. And yet, she enjoyed a happy and exciting childhood. Her father had lost his two legs in an accident, but he inspired his daughter with his rich imagination and vitality. Dianes grandmother, who also cared for the girl,Read more

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