“Albergue da Boa Vontade um projeto de proteção aos desvalidos” (1931-1943)

Abstract

This thesis tries to find out the account of an Hospice “Boa Vontade”, between the years 1931 to 1934, an instituton created in the year 1931 to host the nighty´s homeless who wandered by the dowtown city of Rio de Janeiro the Capital of Brazil in that time. The Idea to set up the hospice came from Lindolfo Collor, the Minister of labor from the provisory governement, who negotiated with the governement´s administration, the acquision of the lot. It was designed by the archictects Affonso Eduardo Reidy and Gerson Pompeu Pinheiro and the funds were raised by national´s iniciatives, among many importants personalities from the political and social scenarios, with remarkable support from Serafim Valandro, the director of the commercial chambre. The hospice was transfered to the Mayor´s administration in 1934, in a process called “municipalização”. In that same year it has started its activities during Pedro Ernesto´s mandate. The hospice worked against the poverty and the mendicancy in the context of Vargas´policy for the working classes. Its activities were showed in the propaganda of the governement by the state agency named DIP-“Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda”. In 1943, many inmates were asked to contribute for the health/clinical examination in the volunteers for the second world war and in the extraction of rubber, at Amazon state, as part of the policy for the warfare.