Tudo o que fizer aos pobres e pequenos

Abstract

This report presents the process of creating the book-length report “Everything I Do to the Poor and the Little Ones”, which tells the story of the Nossa Senhora de Fátima Church, located in the Jurema district of Caucaia city, Ceará, Brazil, and the social projects that have been there: the Madonnina Del Grappa Institution (1992-2012) and the Obra Lumen Institution (since 2022). This work aims to document this history, especially through the memories of those who experienced the emergence and consolidation of these institutions, given that official documents and journalistic material on the subject are scarce. Based on the methodological procedures of semi-structured interviews, oral history, bibliographic research, and documentary research, the book was constructed from information collected in a series of 36 interviews and some specific supporting documents, as well as photographic records kept by people who worked at the three institutions as employees, volunteers, churchgoers, or users of the social projects.