UM TETO PARA MEU PAÍS BRASIL

Description

Charity auction of an Esporte Clube Bahia jersey autographed by some of the players to support Associação TETO.

Esporte Clube Bahia is a Brazilian football club from Salvador, in Bahia.
The jersey was donated to help raise money for the organization.

TETO Brasil is an international organization that works to defend the rights of people living in the most precarious favelas, reduce their vulnerability through community engagement and young volunteers’ programs.

TETO Brazil is implementing an intervention model focused on working side by side with the community and building more dignified housing, promoting children’s education through reading workshops and including the entire community in improvement projects for their neighborhoods.

TETO works in 19 countries, namely, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, and Venezuela. In Brazil for the past 10 years, the organization has worked in more than 120 communities, built more than 3,000 emergency homes, developed around 30 community projects, and mobilized more than 40,000 volunteers.

The amount raised with this charity auction will fund the construction of TETO's emergency housing, in Bahia, throughout 2019.