Histórias de impacto

"Há coisas essenciais que você precisa saber sobre mim. Coisas que, se eu tivesse que me explicar a vocês um dia, durante três minutos em um elevador, não poderia deixar de mencionar [pausa imperceptível, mudança de tom]. Oi, eu sou o Paulo, tenho 17 anos e é um prazer estar aqui com vocês

"Ainda me sinto insegura em relação a mim mesma, mas depois de ir para a LALA, isso mudou muito... Agora tenho orgulho da minha herança, do meu cabelo, da cor da minha pele." O interesse de Sueli por sua herança guarani surgiu do desejo de homenagear sua avó. "Minha avó costumava dar aulas em um dos lugares mais perigosos

"Sei que uma única fruta não acabará com a fome. Mas a ideia é ajudar a alcançar esse equilíbrio... Muitas vezes, as pessoas subestimam os projetos dos jovens nas fases iniciais, mas eles estão começando a despertar. Para mim, a parte mais legal da minha história é que outros jovens ao meu redor estão

"A LALA lhe dá clareza. Ela faz com que você perceba profundamente quem você é. Por meio da LALA, consegui ligar muitos pontos de minha própria história que, até então, eu não havia ligado, mas que inconscientemente estavam lá o tempo todo." O interesse de Guilherme pela educação holística surgiu de um acontecimento chocante quando ele tinha dezessete anos. Obrigado

“Whenever I say that I’ve been through these situations, like domestic violence with my father and him leaving me when I was so young, and watching my friends get shot in the head… people act like it’s a hard thing to talk about. But I actually want to talk about it because people need to

Alejandra’s interest in innovative education models grew from her involvement in WAWA Laptop Peru—a family affair for her, a startup shattering boundaries in access to education for Peru. The idea for WAWA was born in 2015 when Alejandra’s dad Javier Carrasco, an IT Engineer, was traveling around rural Peru for a work assignment. He saw

While many walk away from LALA with new visions, passions, and ideas for social impact, Breno Teixeira walked away from the first-ever LALA Bootcamp, where he was the youngest student, as a new person with a newfound look on life. From speaking to someone at a networking dinner that had just become vegetarian after watching

The average high school student likely would not bat an eye if their teacher were sleeping; if anything, they might smile, knowing that their school day just got much easier. But Florencia Doval, 16, who goes by Floppy, is no average student, and when she noticed teachers dozing off, she became furious. Rather than taking

Neither of her parents graduated from college–rather, they both graduated from high school around the age of 22. Their lack of higher education, though, only pushed them harder to provide their children with exceptional educational opportunities. As a result, Laura de Matos Leal not only attends one of the best high schools in Rio de

Rough hands seemed to run in the family. Her grandfather had them from working in the Brazilian fields since he was a child, and now she had rough hands too, albeit for a different reason: Extensive handwriting–a fitting contrast of the difference education can make in someone’s life. “It’s incredible how this one thing can