Aiming to assist achieving SDGs 4 (Quality Education), 10 (Reduced Inequalities) and 17 (Partnerships for Goals) in my local community, I have developed a volunteer work/home hospitality experience connecting three Indian rovers and a child care facility based in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Diadema (SP), a city with high levels of urban violence, drug consumption and child abandonment. Supported by AIESEC, Santa Casa de Diadema and Projeto Toninhos' sponsors, the project had two main purposes:

01)Show problems that affect Brazilian daily life to foreigners and engage them in building up a solution;

02)Bring to the children's reality a whole new perspective by meeting people from a different culture. 

In six weeks, both parts had the opportunity to unveil each other and try new things. Since the NGO works with ages between 3 and 16 years old, many activies were developed, such as cooking Brazilian and Indian meals with toddlers; playing soccer and watching World Cup games with older kids; and debating on similar issues in their countries as well as ways to solve them. For many students, it was a first and very special contact with someone who only speaks English and that had caused an increase in their grades, because they were studying more to be able to talk with the Indians. 

After this one month and a half initiative, the NGO and the three rovers are still in touch, which keeps exciting everyone who had met them in person. Recently, I've found out that a girl from the project has earned a scholarship to study English with an essay about meeting Indian culture and comparing it with her surroundings!