SAVING Friedenreich
When I was quite a bit younger, I helped to save my school, the Friedenreich Municipal School. My name is Isabel and all this happened between 2009 and 2013 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I live. I will tell you about those months of struggle and righteousness to the best of my recollections.
The Friedenreich School was founded in 1965 and it is for kids up to age eleven; the equivalent of nursery and primary school in the UK. The year of 2012 was my last at the school where I had spent all my school years, ever since learning how to read and write. Friedenreich was then the fourth best in Rio de Janeiro and the tenth best of the country. It is an accessible school for special-needs students (there is an underground station nearby); it has a library and computer labs (with machines that actually work!), a canteen, a game court and a playground for younger kids. The school is located right by the Maracanã Stadium, which even a foreigner such as yourself might recognise as one of the most famous
