"Entre Elas" Educational Project: building bonds, recovering self-esteem and practicing sorority in basic education

ABSTRACT The Entre Elas Educational Project emerged from the demand for safe and welcoming spaces for debates on self-esteem, beauty, acceptance, body, puberty, violence and sorority. These themes have guided extracurricular meetings, enabling the speech and encouraging active listening since 2017. In 2018 and 2019, three biannual editions were held, with the participation of 45 adolescents from basic education. The purpose of this article is to explore the effects of the project on the subjectivity of the participants, the creation of bonds and the way of coping with violence. This is a participatory action-research that uses the action-reflection-action methodological triad. Among the main results is an increase in self-esteem, the creation of a support network beyond the meetings and the denaturalization of the rape culture. The actions strengthen the Protection Network and can impact the creation of public policies.