HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuron Expositor, 2015-09-23, Page 22 Huron Expositor • Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Shaun Gregory Huron Esposito
In the middle is Daradara Da Silva, from Brazil. Next to her are Joe and Mary Ryan, the couple are
involved in a student exchange plan called the Win the World Program,
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Brazilian travels 7000 km
to receive high school
diploma in Canada
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Daradara scrolls through
an iPad, the trusty device
interprets the Portuguese
dialect to Canadian Eng-
lish by voice, which is
helping her learn what's
considered to be one of the
most difficult languages in
the world.
When first arriving in
Seaforth from Recife, Bra-
zil, the nervous teenager
told the Expositor she knew
a few words, giggling she
said, "I did not speak any-
thing just thank you, yeah
and no. Now I don't speak
(the best), but I'm
improving."
Daradara Da Silva, 17, is
one of many involved in
the Win the World Pro-
gram, a student exchange
plan created by Brazilian
presidential candidate
Eduardo Campos, 49, who
last August was aboard a
private jet that crashed
killing him and six others.
According to www.win-
theworldpe.com, in the
past three years the organ-
ization has sponsored
3,400 students who have
journeyed to eight differ-
ent countries. A vison cre-
ated by the late two-time
governor of Pernambuc,
Brazil, the website also
states Campos believed, "if
you lift up the youth from
the poorest families in the
state, you will lift up the
entire state." A strategic
proposal, since the Brazil
government confirmed the
number of Brazilian chil-
dren making it to high
school is dropping fre-
quently. In fact, approxi-
mately a third of school
children do not reach
Grade 6.
Since only a selected
number of students are
accepted into the pro-
gram, Da Silva said a com-
plex process including test
and exams are used and
one must score in the top -
tiers to be accepted. The
Brazil education system is
unlike Canada's, most
post -secondary school
tuitions are covered by the
government. Furthermore,
days are longer with
school beginning as early
as 7 a.m. and ending at 5
p.m. With only one month
off for summer break,
instead of beginning in
September like most
North American schools,
she said the first day for
student's launches in Jan-
uary and finish the school
year in December.
Joe and Mary Ryan are the
couple boarding Da Silva
until she graduates on Janu-
ary 26 from Central Huron
Secondary School in Clin-
ton, Ont., this is their second
year in a row taking in a stu-
dent from Brazil. The mar-
ried couple from Seaforth,
who have four children and
seven grand -children, are
now alone since all their
children are grown-up. This
is another opportunity of
being parents again the two
mentioned at their home on
September 15.
"Mary discussed it on the
phone with me, I said, 'yeah,
sure: I did not know what we
were getting into," explained
Joe. After meeting the stu-
dents from overseas, he said,
"I just love it, a lot of things
we have, they don't have, we
take (this) for granted."
Mary, a bus driver for
Murphy Bus Lines, plans to
continue the student
exchange in the future.
"I think it is meeting the
kids, they're so polite and
they appreciate everything
you do for them," she said.
Da Silva misses family
and the scenic beaches back
home, but is determined to
graduate high school, refine
the English language and in
the future plans to attend
university for
physiotherapy.
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