The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) launches this Friday (26) the campaign “Help a child from Macaíba”, which aims to encourage donations of Personal Income Tax (IRPF) to the Children and Adolescents' Rights Fund of Macaíba, the city where the Institute is based.

The campaign is aimed at employees and other individuals who may have taxes to pay and who can, when filing their IRPF Declaration, choose to allocate up to 3% of the amount – which would previously go entirely to the Federal Revenue Service – now to this Fund. The deadline to file the declaration and to make the donation is April 30.

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Children and adolescents from zero to 18 years of age, or, exceptionally, up to 21 years of age, who are in vulnerable situations, are the target audience for these resources.

“Macaíba welcomes us, welcomes our work and welcomes our dreams of citizenship and social justice. Contributing part of our Income Tax to the Child and Adolescent Fund and, even more, encouraging other people to do the same is a concrete way of making these dreams come true,” says ISD CEO Reginaldo Freitas Júnior. “This is an exercise in our citizenship. Macaíba needs it and this help is easily within our reach. We can and should help.”

The ISD Campaign includes a step-by-step guide on how to make a donation and explains that contributing to this Fund does not mean paying more tax.

On the Institute's Instagram profile, @isdnarede, there is a video explaining how to do it. Access it by clicking on the post below:

 

 

 

 

 

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ABOUT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT FUNDS

The Children and Adolescents Funds aim to finance projects aimed at ensuring the promotion, protection and defense of the rights of children and adolescents. Projects to combat sexual exploitation; family and community coexistence; support for the Children and Adolescents' Rights and Guardianship Councils; as well as Programs to Protect Children and Adolescents Threatened with Death are on the list of projects eligible for financing.

Projects are submitted by institutions that work to promote, protect and defend the rights of children and adolescents for approval by the Children and Adolescents Rights Council, and must meet the guidelines formally deliberated by the Council, with criteria specified in public notices.

The creation of the Funds is provided for in the Statute of Children and Adolescents. In addition to donations from individuals and legal entities, which are deductible from Income Tax, these Funds gather public resources from the Budget of the Union, states, municipalities and the Federal District, and contributions from governments and international organizations. The application of the resources is monitored by the Councils for the Rights of Children and Adolescents.

ABOUT ISD

The Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) is a non-profit Social Organization linked to the Ministry of Education.

The Institute is a reference in teaching, research and extension in maternal and child health, people with disabilities, neuroscience and neuroengineering. Its two units – the Anita Garibaldi Center for Education and Research in Health and the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience – are located in Macaíba, where they conduct cutting-edge research and train professionals from all over Brazil to care for the health of people with disabilities and create solutions related to health conditions involving the nervous system.

In 2020 alone, the Institute provided 33,851 in-person and telehealth consultations via the SUS, including maternal and child health and its clinics for Parkinson's, microcephaly, spinal cord injury, autism, epilepsy, hearing impairment, prematurity and neurogenic bladder. Children, young people and adults from more than half of the municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte are treated at ISD units.