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CCDIA - the Co-operative Centre for the Development of Children and Teenagers - is a Brazilian NGO (non-governmental organisation) working with children at risk.

CCDIA was formed in 1991 to use social, educational and spiritual development as a preventative means to stop the growing tide of children moving to the streets.

Our work takes the form of education projects planted in disadvantaged communities. Working with the children with greatest social and educational need, we have a near 100% success rate in helping children pass the year at school and reintroducing those that have dropped out. You can read more about our work with children in the section on 'projects'.

CCDIA works in close partnership with Brazilian churches. We provide the churches with the resources and expertise they need to establish projects of their own. CCDIA's projects are owned and run by the communities they serve.

Learn more about CCDIA as an organisation in 'How we Work' or read a brief account of how CCDIA was founded in 'History'.