ABRAC (Associação Beneficente de Renovação e Assistência à Criança) is located in the city of Mogi das Cruzes, in the state of São Paulo. It is a Non-Governmental Organization with no profitable or economic purposes, of a philanthropic, caregiving, educational, and cultural nature, congregating anyone who wishes to partner with it to practice solidarity.

Its main goal is to provide Services of Special High-Complexity Social Protection, as an Institutional Shelter Service in the modality of Institutional Shelter Home, for children and adolescents from 0 to 18 years of age under protection measure (Article 98 of Brazil’s Statute of the Child and Adolescent), offering service at a residence-like institutional unit.

ABRAC currently has 4 shelter service units: ABRAC HEADQUARTERS, ABRAC’S VENNER, ABRAC HOPE and ABRAC JOY.For over two decades, ABRAC has been providing a relevant service to the city of Mogi das Cruzes, securing full protection to its sheltered individuals and having achieved significant results, such as:

• a reduction in violations of the social and caregiving rights of the sheltered individuals;
• a reduction in homelessness and abandonment — individuals and families under protection;
• the development of autonomy for the sheltered individuals and their families;
• individuals and families included in services and having access to opportunities;
• and breaking of the cycle of domestic and family violence.