CASACOR Rio 2024 makes donations to NGOs and daycare centers

CASACOR Rio is also about solidarity and sustainability. After successfully concluding another edition, the Rio de Janeiro exhibition is now in the process of dismantling its 48 spaces and doing good . This week alone, some of the items on display during the two-month exhibition began to find new (and permanent) homes . Philco equipment and appliances, for example, which were used at Living Art&Gourmet throughout the exhibition, now belong to Reffetorio Gastromotiva, an NGO located in the Lapa neighborhood , in the central region of Rio, which offers healthy meals to the socially vulnerable population, in addition to promoting free professional training for low-income young people.

And there was also a donation of more than R$310 thousand raised in two charity events that took place even before the official opening of the exhibition, in September. The amount was distributed among three institutions: the Instituto da Providência , which has been promoting actions to combat poverty for 65 years; Rio Inclui , which provides housing assistance to children with disabilities and their families; and Saúde Criança Responder , which offers family restructuring projects for children and adolescents treated at the Miguel Couto and Aloysio de Castro Cardiology Institute hospitals. "Since the first year we held CASACOR, we have always made a point of combining our work with charitable actions. Preview dinners to benefit institutions are already a tradition that is repeated year after year. And now, we are also adding to this a concern for sustainability by making the most of all types of material that can be reused," says Patricia Quentel , managing partner of the Rio de Janeiro show. This year, in fact, the reuse began even before the start of the show , which occupied an area of six thousand square meters of the Fashion Mall. Part of the floors, shelves, glass and lighting equipment that were there were used in the CASACOR environments. But everything that was not used by the architects and interior designers was donated to the Tamo Junto Rocinha project, a collective that brings together residents of the community with professors, students and staff from PUC-Rio. "Redefining is in our DNA. We have always done this with the spaces we occupy. And now also with the products and materials we use", concludes Patricia Mayer , also a managing partner of the exhibition.