MEMÓRIA E CONSTITUIÇÃO DE ESPAÇOS DE CIDADANIA

Abstract

The goal of this article is to discuss the trajectory of Maria Ileide Texeira, a woman that migrated from the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to Campinas, State of São Paulo, in the sixties. Her migrant condition, plus being black, with low scholarity and woman, did not prevent her to fight for political insertion and, also, to lead the creation and the establishment of a day nursery for poor children. It started in fact as a tent, covered by a canvas, for the children of the families which compose the dwelling where she lived in. The meeting between Ileide and Silvia Leeven, a woman of higher social class, resulted in a well succeeded social project. Today it is called Centro Promocional Tia Ileide- CPTI, it is a NGO that received its name to homage Mrs. Ileide,. It has a communitarian vegetable-garden, and five well structured units where about 720 children and adolescents, for the age from 04 to 18, are in attendance.