Anapu, Pará, Brazil
The Casa Familiar Rural de Anapu “Dorothy Stang” is a rural family school on the Rodovia Transamazônica (BR-230, KM 123) in the municipality of Anapu, Pará. It follows pedagogia da alternância: students spend part of the year at the school and the rest on their family farms, learning general knowledge alongside agriculture and animal husbandry. The school also maintains a tree nursery.
The school is named for Sister Dorothy Stang, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur who moved to Anapu in 1982. She organised rural families into communities, opened one-room schools to teach children and adults to read, and taught settlers which crops would grow in the forest — the same model of staying on the land that the Casa Familiar Rural continues today.
She was murdered on a road outside Anapu on 12 February 2005, after years of threats for defending smallholders against illegal logging and land seizure. She was 73. In 2008 she was posthumously awarded the United Nations Human Rights Award. The Casa Familiar Rural carries her name.
Through that model the school sits at the centre of a landscape of small family properties — and its students want to plant native Amazonian trees on their own family land. SunMint supports that directly: R$ 5.00 per verified tree, paid straight to the student who planted it via PIX, with no fixed total. Payment follows evidence — location, species, planting date, a photograph submitted as a file so its GPS metadata survives, and the student’s identity.
Every six months each tree is photographed again: once with a standard credit-card-sized identification card (85.60 × 53.98 mm) held at 1.30 m against the trunk as a scale reference, and once full-tree. Each attested student also receives a verifiable credential page, and one serialized tree-planting pledge is issued per student — the tree’s QR record and the student’s credential page point at each other. Trees are supported only if they are native to the Amazon biome; cacao planted together with native shade and timber trees is expressly supported.
The CFR is a program partner, not a farm, so it is not entered in the Farms Registry. Trees are planted on the students’ own family properties. One of those students, Jhordan Madian Costa de Oliveira, is the son whose family land — Sítio Catarinense in Anapu — was mapped and registered on the SunMint impact map in October 2026.
The tree-planting support is implemented with CEPOTX, the organic cacao cooperative of the Transamazônica and Xingu, which verifies student identity and handles the local coordination.
The pin marks Anapu on the Transamazônica; the school sits at KM 123 on BR-230.
Students at CFR Anapu plant native trees on their own family properties. These are the farms we have onboarded so far:
This is a two-way link: the Sítio Catarinense page points back here. See policy §Cross-linking related entities in AGROVERSE_SHOP_PAGE_CONVENTIONS.md.
Photographs and video from our visit to the school: the tree nursery students work in, the 2025 graduating ninth-grade class, Independence Day banners, and the classroom itself. Captions on the videos are English translations of what was said, in Portuguese, on the day.
Media archived through the Media Archive Pipeline (MAP); full manifest and originals held with the program record. Videos transcribed and hosted with English captions.