Inicio - Novo Sertão

We want rural northeast Brazil full of opportunities and hope

We are Instituto Novo Sertão

We believe in a Ttransformed rural northeast Brazil

And to achieve this goal, we promote healthy local communities, families and individuals who are fully equipped to use their gifts and talents to achieve their dreams.

Rural northeast Brazil by the numbers

24 million people

live in the vast expanses of rural northeastern brazil
divided into 1,135 small communities

47.5% from cities

Brazil's poorest are
in the northeastern semi-arid region

Development Index

The human development index (HDI) measures local development and how vulnerable a city or country is to poverty. Of the 500 municipalities that had the lowest HDI in Brazil, 47.5% are located in our area.

Meet our
social transformation projects

What they say about us

I see people who are producing a happy face, because they are producing quality food and helping with their own income.

After I started participating in the symphonic band project, I started to take more responsibility for my commitments and I learned the importance of persisting and not giving up on my dreams.

If I hadn't started my Productive Yard I wouldn't have all these products, with the sale of the surplus I can pay for the monthly purchase of the house, that's a big help!

Having brought the Family Farming project into the church showed the community that we are not here with an empty speech, but that we can demonstrate our relationship with God through the work of the garden and each relationship that is being generated through this work.

Have an experience unforgettable in the Sertão and support local communities

Our action aims to reach cities in the northeastern hinterland that have low human development indexes (HDI) and develop several activities over the course of 10 days that can have a great impact on the lives of residents.