Our Team
Employees and volunteers who help us make a difference every day!
Our Team
Employees and volunteers who help us make a difference every day!
Teamwork without boundaries
The large family of Casa do Menor is mainly divided between Brazil, where it has been operating for 40 years and where it has created all the structures that exist today (e.g. houses for reception, community support programmes, etc.), Guinea Bissau (West Africa) and Italy, the land of its founder, Padre Renato Chiera.
Over the years, the structure has grown and in 2002 Casa Do Menor France was founded, which provides important support to Casa do Menor in Fortaleza through the organisation of events and actions in its territory.
There are also important support groups in Europe (Germany – Munich – Switzerland).
Padre Renato Chiera
Padre Renato Chiera, originally from Villanova Mondovì, in the province of Cuneo, is founder and honorary president of Casa do Menor. In 1986, after several years as a priest in the parish of Miguel Couto, Father Renato decided to lean over the wounds of the many unloved children and adolescents on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro and respond to their cry for help, thus founding the organisation Casa do Menor.
TEAM
CASA DO MENOR ITALIA
Donatella Martini
Matteo Ghiglione
The Members’ Assembly has the widest deliberative powers. It meets at least once a year to approve the final balance sheet, appoints the Association’s bodies, decides on all matters submitted by the Board of Directors, and outlines the general guidelines for the Association’s activities.
The Association is administered by the Board of Directors, which is composed of a minimum of three and a maximum of twenty people, at the discretion of the Assembly.
The Board of Directors prepares the Association’s balance sheet annually for approval by the Assembly.
President of Casa do Menor Italia: Ing. Andrea Battaglia
Vice-president of Casa do Menor Italia: Padre Renato Chiera
TEAM
CASA DO MENOR SÂO MIGUEL ARCANJO
Padre Renato Chiera
Lucila Ines Cardoso da Silva
TEAM
CASA DO MENOR FRANCE
Salette Viana Le Cornet
Carla Volpi Lantieri
Casa do Menor France is an important link with institutional donors and French organisations.
The action is focused on fundraising for Casa do Menor Fortaleza through the organisation of events (dinners, shows) and markets for the sale of Brazilian handicrafts or objects produced in France by volunteers, members or supporters of the association.
