CIDS - Centre for digital and social inclusion

The CIDS is a project of social and digital inclusion, which was founded on March 7, 2003 by Franciscan friars of the province of Santa Cruz in Minas Gerais. The main objective of this project is to protect children, adolescents, seniors and families, who attend the CIDS, from dangerous situation that many of them live.

Is a free project, which is very dedicated by human and social development of poor people. They are peolple with any disability, trying to join them in the labor market, through digital inclusion. Besides the computer courses, is also offered interactive workshops and lectures.

The CIDS provides a living space of digital citizenship, where you can made searchs and projects. There are three levels of performance of CIDS:

1. INCLUSION: Includes people in a social and cultural context;
2. PROFESSIONAL: Contributes to extend the possibilities of integrating people into the social market;
3. GENERATION OF INCOME: Helps people with entrepreneurial able to conduct their own business, ensuring their livelihood.

Besides all these works of CIDS, it supports and stimulates the generation of income through entrepreneurship; contributes to inclusion of people with disabilities, placing them in the educational activities undertaken by the organization develops the social consciousness, provides tangible contribution to society becomes more human, fraternal, friendly and promoter of social and economic development, expressed through real actions and effective inclusion, the Franciscan-Christian spirituality that underlies the organization's institutional values.

Location: Rua dos Timbiras nº. 1490 - Centro - Belo Horizonte - MG

General Phone: (31) 3222-5456

Site: www.cids.org.br

Useful Sites

http://www.cartoons.com.br/
The site has a lot of fun cartoons about some situations of our life, some of them attacking politics and the society. There are many “caricaturas” of famous people and others artistic and interesting pictures.

http://sites2.uai.com.br/ragga/index.html
This is a site about news involved with music, shows, patties and others topics. These topics are interesting for people that like to go out at night, go to movies and it is the best choice to look for information about the social life in BH.

http://chargges.zip.net/
It is very fun to take a look of the “chagges” of this site. Many people that we now are represented by Gonçalves, the creator, and he has a blog with more of his jobs(http://goncalvesblog.blogspot.com/) The picture of Michael Phelps is the best one.

http://www.lixozero.com.br/
This environmental site gives us information about active areas of recycling, destroyed areas that have been repaired, garbage reduction, etc. We can learn how to take care of the world in a better way.

http://www.movies.com/
The best option for people that love movies, theaters and news about cine. The site has information about top 10 of movies, the new ones that will be passing and some curiosities of the movie’s world. We can access sales and promotions of DVDs and Blu-ray by the site.

http://www.copanaafrica2010.com/
This site is very good for people who love football, especially at a time of World Cup. Besides his show all the news about the World Cup in Africa, he has special files about all the old World Cups. If you don't follow all the games, but you want to know the results, just access this site, you will know everything about the World Cup in Africa.

http://www.macumbaonline.com/
This site has the objective to help people make voodoo online, also has a list of macumbas more made in the site and a list of the people who more made voodoos in the site (Top Macumbeiros).

http://www.abcdasaude.com.br/
Is a medical site designed to answer questions from the public about health issues. It has articles by specialists in health. This site also has all the news about health and is a great resource for anyone who wants to know about any medical issue.

http://www.bussolaescolar.com.br/
The most complete site for school research in Brazil. The site is divided by subject areas, and these are divided into specific topics. It has a complete content and one online translator. The site talks about many topics such as: Portuguese, Maths, History, Biology, Environment, Foreign Languages, Astronomy, Computer Science, Vestibular, and more...

http://www.abcdaecologia.hpg.ig.com.br/
Site dedicated to the themes of ecology and specialized in issues about the environment and your preservation. You will find many links about: animals, global climate changes, air pollution, acid rain, global warming, pollution of rivers, extinction of various animals.