




The project "memória gráfica" created by professionals in Belo Horizonte, started with the intention of helping marginalized teens to seek his professional path.
The initiative came from the graphic artist Osvaldo Medeiros, who discovered machines destroyed in a warehouse in the state. The equipment belonged to extinct FEBEM (Foundation of the Welfare of Children) and were still in usable condition.
In April 1999, Medeiros joined about 25 professionals in the region and started the project "graphics memory - Typographia school pictures." Come'co would be a nonprofit entity that could raise the machinery of government "equipment still belong to the state and are placed in a public hall, which also received permission to use," explains president and project coordinator Maria Dulce Barbosa.
The project serves adolescents between 14-21 years of social risk or trouble with the law. There are about 40 young people who attend Monday through Friday. The association believed to have formed around 500 teenagers.
The project works primarily with the visual arts especially paintings and prints and collages, but there are also other inserted projects that seek to help these adolescents to uncertainty in the job market both through the art of computing as such.
The "Memória Gráfica" works in Rua Conselheiro Rocha, 3800, in Belo Horizonte - and is sponsored by Usiminas, through state law to encourage the culture of Minas Gerais.