After losing his son of 2 years and 4 months of medical negligence, Evelin de Moura Nascimento, 38, says he turned the fight into fight. Because of his son’s death, he decided to create a project to welcome families of medical negligence. 
Evelin gave the project the name “Mufi”, which means another future. Thus, it began to make shirts.
Rio de Janeiro (RJ), 09/18/2025 – Evelin Moura created shirts to warn of medical negligence. Photo: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil
Graduated in Fashion Production Technician, he took the training course in the making of shirts in the Entrepreneurial Power Power Project, Providence Institute. “The course helped me a lot in this phase of loss of a child, I felt very welcomed. Mufi has become a mark and now I will create pieces seeking justice for my son.”
“This fight is also for my 1 year and 11 months daughter to show that, from a mourning, life does not end, another one begins,” he said.
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Women entrepreneurs
Evelin was one of 260 women entrepreneurs of the project that formed on Thursday (18), at the Bangu Shopping Theater, in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. They attended classes in the gastronomy, fashion and beauty sectors for nine months to be able to start their business. Since 2022, the initiative has served 1,700 women and generated 684 new businesses.
According to the executive director of the Institute of Providence, Maria Garibaldi, there are 260 women who can now look forward and see their trajectory as entrepreneurs, owners of their business, autonomous and generating income.
“Women continue with business opening mentories. They are women aged 18 to 60, in vulnerable situations, residents in the west of Rio. These are women who today do not generate income and then will have an exponential increase in income. This improves family income and causes her to provide education, health and leisure for her family,” said the director.
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Raquel Baltar de Paula, 40, recalls that her husband and 20 -year -old son were fired at the same time and family accounts tightened with rent and care for the other 2 -year -old son. To help with family income, Raquel began working on the production of savory of a buffet.
“So I saw it as an opportunity to, instead of being an employee, could buy salty to resell. And that’s how my story started, ”he said.
Rio de Janeiro (RJ), 09/18/2025 – Raquel Baltar works with sweets and salty to increase family income – Photo: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil
Rachel recalls that the business began to expand. After sales on the street, he started selling in the whole neighborhood in Jacarepaguá, in the Tanque community, and as he began to take a taste for the business, he decided to look for courses to empower herself.
“I met the project and made the registration. I was called, and now I can say that it was the best thing in my life that happened to me. Knowing the project, learning the technique of sweets and salty. I had wonderful professionals there, helping me, supporting me, the issue of the support network with my baby was fundamental,” says Raquel.
She proudly says she started to get off and already knows how to make her own savory, instead of buying them to resell them on the street. “I’m already having income. For a while, I was the provider of my home. My 20-year-old son sells the salty on the street too. I just miss my husband too. I want to leave it in the administrative part of the business,” he said.
Another student of the course, Claudete Luiz da Costa, 44, reveals that before she was able to stay at home, hood, with her hands tied and not knowing what to do. Until a friend told about the course of the Institute of Providence and “thank God, I got here.”
Rio de Janeiro (RJ), 09/18/2025 – Claudete Luiz da Costa made training in the aesthetics area – Photo: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil
Single and childless, Claudete lived with family help, with the protection of her father and sister. “But today, surely, I can say that I am trained and that I will be a successful entrepreneur.”
She trained in the course of eyelashes and eyebrows, and did not stop there.
“I entered totally raw, but there we did not just have a course, we were also supported by the girls of the Providence Institute, the colleagues also course, holding the hand of the other. We built a profession in the end, Today I am trained for the job market, I am convinced that I will give my best”Reports Claudete.
*Intern under supervision by Gilberto Costa
