FLUSO

FLUSO PROJECT

In the migratory FLUSO, Building SMILES – Oral Health Axis

Among the current problems on a global scale, one that arouses the attention of governments, the media, the population and academia is certainly migration. The displacement of individuals in search of refuge in other countries in search of security, food, education, health and better living conditions, points to the need for organization for the reception of migrants.
More recently, as a result of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, Brazil has received a large number of Venezuelans and among them stand out indigenous peoples who, in addition to the common points of any group of immigrants, are mostly illiterate, with enormous challenges to fit into urban contexts.
Thus, the FluSo Project, created in April 2022, responding to Objective 3 of the UN Agenda 2030: “ensure a healthy life and promote well-being for all and at all ages”, aiming at the global and sustainable development established by the General Assembly of the UN, meets an important social demand that lacks resources for the preservation of health and the promotion of well-being. FluSo, understood as a way of bringing the University’s internal community closer to the context of migrations, both in terms of the students’ training process and the applicability of the knowledge produced in it in favor of these vulnerable populations in transit, is a proposal for extensionist nature, articulated with several action fronts coordinated by other USP units and public institutions.
Under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Kranya Victoria Díaz-Serrano, PPG teachers and students in Pediatric Dentistry participate in FluSo, Dental Surgeon of the Department of Children’s Clinic, Dr. Carolina Paes Torres, and undergraduate interns.