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The "Orientation and Rehabilitation Center", founded on August 25th 1987 is located in the suburb of Inhaúma. It is a charitable institution for social assistance dedicated to the qualification, rehabilitation and social promotion of children suffering from any mental (light or moderated) disabilities, as well as those with learning and communicating difficulties.

Its facilities include 13 rooms and a team of specialized professionals such as psychologists, speech therapists, pedagogues, social assistants, specialists in physical movement, art teachers and art therapists.

The Institution assists from Mondays to Fridays, from 8 a.m to 5. p.m., per month, in its ambulatory, more than 200 poor children from 0 to 18 years old, all residents in one of the poorest and violent suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, the so-called "Complexo do Alemão".

Besides the medical care, the children and teenagers also attend cultural and mosaic workshops, lectures about health care, sexual diseases, drugs, hygiene and pregnancy prevention (birth control methods).

To facilitate the social acceptance of its patients, the institution has developed leisure and cultural activities. It maintains associations with shopping centers, theaters, museums, parks and other entities, in order to organize visits and sights to these places.