Center-West — São Miguel Quilombola Territory

We dream of a future in which everyone can be living well. In which we feel like being together and sharing ideas. Where we can also teach what union is to the new generations — union is healthy life. Union is beautiful. Being united gives strength to overcome all the challenges of justice, sustaining our future.

We conquer the dream of having solid houses, without depending on empty promises of politicians who never keep them, as they promised us light that never arrived. The future depends on the gaze of our authorities.

Our future is united. Just as hens care for their chicks, our families have always cared for one another. We want to keep alive this tradition of welcome of the quilombola family, where every child, every young person, and every elder finds care and belonging.

We dream of a world in which everyone has the same rights, regardless of who they are, because today we live in a society in which equality is not for everyone.

We want this to be a place where people arrive to visit and we have something to offer, with a good place for visitors to rest, and with doctors for the families.

It is necessary to preserve in order to survive. In our future there is preservation of the woods, of water, of fauna, and a good coexistence with nature, following the chain of life. We had many animals here, even game, but with deforestation they are already without habitat and have gone extinct. We recognize that people depend on nature and on coexistence with animals, which is balance. If they become extinct, people go into need.

We want to plant, harvest, and live in harmony with the nature that is part of life. We want everyone to have access and a place to produce our own food, clean and healthy, coming from the land, and to avoid artificial things.

We want plenty of food, of fruit, of clean and renewable energy, living on a healthy planet. We want to be able to ride bicycles.

Our future has what we had in the past, which is forest, water, and play, and which today is already gone.

We want a future with seeds, education for all, union, cared-for nature, technology for the good, and hope of a prosperous future for young people, represented here by football, as well as for women of the countryside.

In our future, we do not forget our stories. We want to keep alive our dances, our foods, our celebrations, so that the new generations know where they came from and carry the memory forward.