in turn, involves children in the greater activities of their neighborhoods, and get them started in the wider samba culture - many samba schools are based in rio's favelas, and historically favelas have had high crime and unemployment levels.

children's samba schools help filling the free time of youths from several favelas. occupying youth's time and energy in healthy cultural activities, means lowering crime and violence, making these organizations a valuable social tool.

for many years the children samba schools held their parades in their respective regions, but since 1999 they have been used to open the official samba celebrations in the sambódromo, so becoming the first parade on the schedule.