Meninadança

Please check out the website of Meninadança (Girl Dance) to read up on their vision and objectives, and get a better idea of who we're working with. This video should also give a good visual introduction, with an incredibly moving song that a Canadian singer called Dean Brody wrote after meeting one of the girls - Leilah.

In summary, Meninadança hopes to set up various projects along the vast BR116 motorway in Brazil, using dance especially to reach out to underage girls caught in prostitution and sexual exploitation. The huge motorways that cross the interior of Brazil are actually where most prostitution is to be found, and in a recent survey by the government, they found the worst highway of all to be the BR-116. Along its 2,700 miles there are 262 places where child prostitution was known to be taking place - the equivalent of one every ten miles.

Meninadança is focusing on the motorway communities where these girls live, aiming to set up safe-houses where girls can engage in dance and other activities to increase their self-esteem, and find new meaning, hope and purpose. Through community work with the girls and their families, Meninadança hopes to rescue many girls from a life of sexual exploitation and restore them to living out their full potential.
Read more about Meninadanca here.