At just 17 years old, Viviane Neves da Silva is an intern at Caixa Econômica Federal, where she holds the position of management assistant. She has been working at the bank for nine months, performing tasks such as preparing spreadsheets, opening accounts, carrying out research and operating Caixa programs.
Viviane was part of the first group sponsored by Fluxo in the Fazer Sucesso project with Sport and Citizenship classes, which also completed the basic computer course. Today, in addition to the thirty current students that make up the citizenship class, Fluxo is responsible for an extra class, with computer science students, made up of 20 teenagers and adults from the community of Recanto Feliz, Stiep neighborhood, in Salvador-BA.
The initiative is the result of a partnership between the NGO Fazer Sucesso and Unifacs, through an extension project called BITS. The BITS project is a student initiative, with the support of the university, which establishes partnerships with Non-Governmental Organizations - NGOs, to promote computer classes for needy people. The university lends the laboratory, equipped with computers, the graduates work as volunteer teachers and the NGO gathers the group and pays for the teaching material.
Classes take place once a week, on Saturday mornings. The course lasts two months and covers all programs in the Office Package: Windows, Word, Excell, PowerPoint and the internet. In less than a month of classes, the coordinator of the BITS project and professor of the course Lucas Santos notes that the students are already taking their first steps in the world of information technology: “at the beginning they didn't know much, but now they know how to operate the Windows, formatting text, creating electronic spreadsheets, creating some formulas, among other basic computer operations”, says Lucas.