Partner: Centro de Orientação Socioeducativa (COSE) Gama Sul

CoBra youth created these videos to explore diverse types of violence in different contexts. The scenes depict environmental, physical, familial, social, societal and psychological violence. All, in the view of the youth, boil down to one thing: a lack of love.

What would be the best way to fight something that bothers the majority of society? We would say that it is through well-founded expression and the will to change. The Chain of Change project - Corrente Brasileira de Mudança (CoBra) - is a way for us to express our opinions and beliefs, according to each one’s psychological and environmental reality. With the production of a video we will generate and facilitate new discussions on the theme of violence within different groups in the community and point to possible solutions or new ways of approaching the violence suffered and practiced in our midst.

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Qual seria a melhor maneira de combater algo que incomoda a maioria da sociedade? Diríamos que é pela expressão bem fundamentada e a vontade de mudar. O projeto chain of change – corrente brasileira de mudança (cobra) é um caminho pelo qual podemos expressar as nossas opiniões e crenças, mediante a realidade psicológica e ambiental de cada um. Com a produção de um vídeo chegaremos ao nosso objetivo: a visão do jovem sobre a temática “violência”. Para mudar: unir a forma de comunicação tecnológica com a forma de comunicação e expressão do jovem. Utilizar o video como gerador de novas discussões sobre o tema violencia em grupos distintos da comunidade que norteia a unidade e apontar para possíveis saídas ou novas formas de abordagem da violencia sofrida e praticada em nosso meio.

Chain of Change is international! CoBra -- Corrente Brasileira de Mudança (Brazilian Chain of Change) -- has started in Gama, DF, outside of Brasília, the country's capital. A group of 10 youth from COSE (The Center for Socio-educational Orientation), a before- and after-school program serving 6-21 year-old students from the public school system, are gathering twice weekly to reflect on violence in their lives and create media to share their experiences and strategies for ending it.

Funders

The Chain of Change is supported in part by Beth Emet Synagogue Tzedakah Fund, Chicago Foundation for Women, Crossroads Fund, Early to Bed, Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, Illinois Humanities Council, Leo S. Guthman Fund, McCormick Foundation, Ms. Foundation for Women, Polk Bros. Foundation, Sahara Enterprises, Inc. and Weitz Funds. This project is partially supported by the Illinois Arts Council, a State Agency; a CityArts Program 2 grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs; and the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Cultural Outreach Program. The Chain of Change project is also made possible by our generous individual donors.