The farmers in Association of “Barrocão” built on collective activity an agribusiness to benefit fruit, turning them into pulp, candies, jams, cakes, cookies, beijus, etc. They received donations from government programs of equipment, technical support of “Cabruca” Institute and are signing in participatory certification and social organization. Nowadays need support to equip the family agribusiness with tools and supplies to start producing and marketing throughout the region, and deliver their products to the Food Acquisition Program - PAA and PNAE.

The project's goal is to market to other regions and especially offer to the tourism of Serra Grande and southern Bahia the possibility of consuming products derived from agro forestry, processed with quality and certified like organic.

The association was created in 2010, aims to bring together farmers of “Barrocão” region to promote the social, economic, productive, environmental and cultural development of its members.

The goal of the project is to promote and expand the fishing activity of a group of three fishermen, investing in their equipment and fishing materials, enabling leaving more often to fish and have higher income. Consequently, also, enhance and divulge the artisanal fishery in a raft, traditional activity of the community.

One difficulty that artisanal fishermen regularly face is the lack of material resources for exercise the profession. Besides the good weather and calm sea, the fisherman depends on a number of others conditions for fishing. The rafts need to be replaced after a few years, the engines require maintenance and fuel. Often the fisherman doesn't go to sea by a lack of resources for these expenses. Improving these fishermen's working conditions, the entire community benefits, seeing a such important activity being preserved and valued, since the raft fishing is part of the unique local culture.

In return the fishermen are compromised to hold meetings to exchange experiences aimed at young people of Serra Grande community for the preservation of popular culture of the raft fishing activity in south Bahia

Store Different forms of generating income are being found by Serra Grande’s residents. The main problem is the sell, to find clients for the products. The project comes to supply a basic need of the community of Serra Grande: find a Market, sales opportunities for people to sell the products made by tradition, knowledge and creativity of the region’s residents. The aim of the project is to build a communitarian store and offer a new commercial place for a large number of producers at the community of Serra Grande, helping the residents at making a income for their families, for example the joinery furniture that are sold in the roadside since years ago. The dolls that today are sold in Dendê da Serra School and for contact people, the bread that is sold in a informal way and the vegetables sold to people that goes to school or delivered by bicycle in the village of Serra Grande.

The dolls group was created from a group of mothers of students from the “Dendê da Serra” School, interested in learning how to make handmade rag dolls for their children. Today the meetings take place twice a week at Green House.

The project's goal is to invest in sewing machinery and equipment, relieving the main factor of cost in the dolls production. With more material and equipment, the group can grow and expand its production, and more women can earn extra money sewing dolls. The group already has a lot of customers waiting for orders.

Besides the women, the ones who benefits from the project are the children and the other people around, seeing the dolls the affirmation of a brunette and the identity from Bahia, with clothes and hairstyles that value the local culture. In addition, it seeks to rescue the tradition of handmade toy.

The aim is to have a community organic Garden, which do not exist in the community. It’s relevant because of the lack of organic vegetables in the community and the difficulty of transport for the people to go to the city to buy fresh food. With the Community Organic Garden the families will have the oportunity to buy fresh food. We aim to have better results with our land and to generate income to the families engaged with the project, besides having quality food in our region. The group responsible is Christian Garden Group.Strengthening Communitarian Actions in Serra Grande’s Dam The aim of the project is to improve the physical infrastructure of the headquarter of the Union of Residents from Beira Rio of Dam, through reform, construction and expandition of it. Besides the improviment of the landscaping and infrastructure of the packaging and collection of solid waste in the area of the dam. The Union was founded with the aim of giving voice to a group of residents that didn’t fell that the city, state and federal politics focused to the maintanence and improvement of life and environment conditions in Serra Grande Village were attending their needs.

Águas Claras is a place in Serra Grande which a lot of families live of agriculture. The Palm Green Group is composed by two families from this community. The idea of planting *purpunha came up two years ago, when a neighbor farm started to plant it in the area. Ivanildo works in this farm, he has experience in the planting of purpunha and imagined that he could start a purpunha’s plantation with other people in the community. The aim of the project is to increase the families’ income so they are able to guarantee a better life quality.

The aim of the project is empower activities of afro-brazilian culture presents in the community of Serra Grande. The activities expected in the project are capoeira classes held in the Cabana da Represa in Ecovila, purchase of material to build instruments, monthly presentations in the communities and the realisation fo a final event (a kind of baptism), reuniting regional groups and masters, and the purchasing of material to improve the infrasctructure of Ecovila’s Residents Union. The work with regional capoeira is developed since 15 years ago in Serra Grande by the teacjer Tiago Lima. Since 2 moths ago, the classes are being helded in Represa (Cabana Tropical) and in Ecovila (Resident’s Union), twice a week in each place. With this proposal, the aim is to mainten those activities and to make larger the act area for the community of Gavião, with classes twice a week.

The project Levada da Serra / Playing as a Joke, We Learn a Profession is an offshoot of the "Percussive Band Vila Apprentice" that was designed to initially make a rescue of Afro-Brazilian culture and at the same time promoting educational leisure activities among children, teenagers and young people. This project was carried out between December 2012 to June 2014, in the village of Serra Grande, and through the development of its activities there was an evolution of youth participation, culminating in the creation of a band and a semiprofessional block.

The project, presented by the Group of Culture Preservation, “Dilazenze”, aims to create a local culture of musical training covering different age groups, in order to identify, develop and inspire new percussionists able to put themselves in the future as music professionals. Seeks to improve their sense of coexistence, solidarity and care for the Village Serra Grande and the planet, inspiring them to a new profession. .

The project is a part of a major work, which the aim is to produce and distribuce a feature-length telling the story of Val, a traditional midwive in the area of Serra Grande. The project aims the production of the sound track of the movie Umbigo, finalized in a seven tracks CD, besides releasing the movie in five cities of Bahia and dynamize cinematic production in the South and Down South of Bahia. The movie brings the record and rescue of one of the oldest practices of the world, to born. It aims the empowerment of women when giving birth, their knowledge of their own body, going against the marketing of the conventional medical system that value the profits in place of the quality. The workshops and accompanied exhibitions will serve as tools of communication to create awareness in the new generation, future fathers and mothers, creating reflection and content. Website: http://umbigofilme.com.br/

The Luanda Group has existed in Serra Grande since 2002 and its goal is to form citizens through regional capoeira. The culture and art also work with the body and mind. The Project aims to promote the growth and development of regional capoeira in Serra Grande. Activities: purchase supplies and build the headquarters of Luanda Group. The group Construction Art and Culture realizes it. *Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art Serra Grande’s Guides Union In 2007, 20 Serra Grande’s residents were qualified as tourist guides in a project supported by diverse institutions. The Serra Grande’s Guides Union will build up the community ecotourism movement that is going strong in the village and will create a place of personal growth and decent work for the youth of the community. The aim of the project is to formalize Serra Grande’s Guides Union to promote a qualified ecotourism, based on the observation and the care with nature and local culture, generating income and sustainability.

The project aims to strengthen and expand the Surf School, to enable young people of Serra Grande learn to surf, build a respectful relationship with nature and develop values to act in the collective in solidarity way.

The work began in 2014 as a voluntary action, with collective and free classes for children and adolescents in the community, and private lessons for tourists. The group has received institutional support from “Arapyaú” Institute, the Surf Itacaré School and individuals. Attend a group of 25 children from various districts of Serra Grande (Bairro Novo, Rua do Campo, Rua do Cemitério, Beira Rio and Ecovila).

In December 2014, the school participated as articulator of the Guardians of Serra project. During three months, combining surf lessons with environmental education activities and beach cleaning.

To continue to work, many challenges arise, including: more teachers to attend, the participation of students at the lack of transport, better structure of equipment and organization of pedagogical practices, financial and administrative organization with a view to strengthening the collective that take care of the expansion project.

Today the demand for places in “Dendê da Serra” School is so great that two kindergarten classes aren't enough. The waiting list increases every year. At the same time, the Municipal Daycare “Eva Santos” attends the families of the community who seek this public service.

The objective of this project is to increase the social participation of the “Dendê da Serra” School in innovation formal and informal processes of integral education in the municipality, through a new community space for social and educational integration for Childhood Education. This new Kindergarten Waldorf will have 20 vacancies.

Since 2001, “Dendê da Serra” School do a pioneering work of integral education in the area of APA Itacaré - Serra Grande. Since the beginning of 2015, the school is raising money to renovate a house in the village for the new kindergarten, creating an environment conducive to educational work..

The objective of this project is to offer meetings and experiences that promote the expansion of the being from the exchange of experiences, knowledge, learning and practices that help in changing community behavior front environmental, social, care with the kingdoms of nature and a better coexistence with the Serra of Conduru State Park.

The context of creation of the Association Bloom action was the arrival of the Serra of Conduru State Park, which impacted the socio-economic reality of the region and families that still live in the surrounding areas, mostly farmers with low education who face difficulties in improving agricultural production on their properties and the demand of their products. Have low income and live in dwellings of poor quality, most often without basic sanitation, electricity and collection of solid waste. Besides the conflicts in land regularization, which resulted the distancing of this community from Serra of Conduru State Park, the rural exodus, the lack of knowledge of agroecological practices and the difficult access to the region prevents the exchange and sharing of these other practices continuously. Today the Bloom Project, physically, is a living house called House of Blossom, located 1.5 km after the seat of Conduru Park, direction Uruçuca, near the area of Mr. Durval. The first intervention happened in October 2013 in the “Nossa Senhora da Conceição” Rural School and surroundings; in 2014 it began the second stage, already installed in the house. Over those three years, springs from the source of the simple life the purpose of the project: the rising of conscience for coexistence. The activities of ordinary life and contact with the kingdoms of nature are a service field, making possible the expansion of consciousness and the development of right relationships. The activities happen weekly in the afternoon, with workshops on environmental education, art and culture, and activities and works with the kingdoms of nature. The House of Bloom exists and is surfacing due the support of many people. If you want to know and support please contact us by email: florescer6@gmail.com

O objetivo do projeto é formalizar uma associação de guias e condutores de visitantes de Serra Grande para promover um ecoturismo qualificado com base na observação e cuidado da natureza e da cultural local, gerando renda e sustentabilidade. Confiamos que a Associação de Guias e Condutores de Serra Grande fortalecerá o movimento de ecoturismo de base comunitária que vai tomando forma na vila e criará um espaço de crescimento pessoal e de trabalho digno para muitos jovens da comunidade.

O objetivo do projeto é a melhoria da infraestrutura física de apoio da Associação por meio da reforma, construção e ampliação do espaço físico para a sede da organização, além da melhoria da infraestrutura de acondicionamento e coleta dos resíduos sólidos domiciliares e comerciais e do paisagismo na área da represa. A Associação foi fundada com o objetivo de dar voz aos anseios de um grupo de moradores, pois entenderam que as políticas municipais, estaduais e federais voltadas para a manutenção e melhoria das condições de vida e do meio ambiente na Vila de Serra Grande, não atendiam seus anseios.

The Casa Verde (Green House) is a place of integration between various educational initiatives, located in Bairro Novo, poor neighborhood of the village. The formalization of the Green House is required to ensure their own sustainability. The House, as an integration space, aims to offer reflections among all supporters, educators, partners, parents and young people that attending the house to establish the identity, the mission and participatory training of the organizational structure of the association.

The goal of this project is the formalization of the Green House as a non-profit association. It was created in 2009, offering joinery workshops, jewelry coconut and others artisanal works, English classes and other specific proposals, such as a course of learner pizzaiolo.

Esta associação foi formalizada em 1988 e sempre desenvolveu melhorias para a comunidade, porém a finalização dos projetos e a falta de assistência técnica contínua causaram um declínio na participação dos associados nas suas reuniões e ações. A Associação, juntamente com o Projeto Fortalecendo Laços, busca revigorar esta participação por meio do compromisso entre os beneficiados, encorajando-os a comparecer às reuniões mensais, bem como aproveitar o incentivo financeiro para dinamizar a produção agrícola através da criação de galinhas e a estruturação de pomares. Dessa forma, estimulando a busca de novos projetos a serem executados pela Associação e a melhoria da qualidade de vida das famílias envolvidas.

O projeto vem atuando na Vila de Serra Grande desde maio de 2013, quando desenvolveu algumas ações de criação, e já introduziu ações como a do “jeguinho coletor”, inicialmente, em eventos e, posteriormente, em parceria com estabelecimentos comerciais. Também já ofereceu oficinas de capacitação para a coleta seletiva para membros da comunidade agentes comunitários de saúde e agentes de combate às endemias. Em seguida, conseguiu apoio para a realização de novas ações, como a aquisição de dois triciclos, a implantação do galpão de triagem, a aquisição de Equipamentos de Proteção Individual (EPI´s) e a confecção de novos “jeguinhos”. Para ampliar o potencial de coleta de recicláveis e o envolvimento de mais pessoas da comunidade, o projeto desenvolve ações por meio do Pensamento de Design para entender a gestão de resíduos sólidos na Vila e possibilitar a introdução de Postos de Entrega Voluntários (PEVs) e desenvolvimento de outras atividades relevantes à sustentabilidade do projeto.

The aim of the project is to bring joy, health and knowledge for the people and for the community of Serra Grande and surroundings. It intents, besides the cyclists tour, show a little bit of the history and culture of the region and to make people know and contribute to the environment preservation. There are planned the realization of two cyclists tours, one in 2015 and the other in 2016. The cyclists tours already happened 4 years ago. This project is a mean to reunite sport, education and the environment, bringing to the communit of Serra Grande and surroundings a way of fun, besides better health quality, allied to happiness and to knowledge. The first tours happened in the years of 2012 and 2013, with the destination in Retiro at Ilhéus, with the participation of about 80 people. The third tour happened in 2014, with destination in PESC, with the participation of about 8 people. In the year of 2015 happened the fourth tour, witht he destination in Lagoa Encantada, with the participation of about 80 people from all the area.

In a contex of high index of youth doing drugs and most of the time getting to commit crimes, the athletism as an sportive and educational activity is a important alternative. This project aims to introduce the youth to the practice sport in the area of Serra Grande, contributing for the youth to be aware of the challenges ahead and to be more prepared to make better choices. Since five years ago the Ecological Race of Retiro has been happening with the start line in Serra Grande and the arrival in Retiro (community of PESC, on south of Ilhéus – BA).