10 Anos de Ilú na Mesa (10 Years of Ilú on the Table)
Awarded by the association Ilú Obá De Min – Educação, Cultura e Arte Negra (Ilú Obá De Min – Education, Culture and Black Art), which recognizes the contributions of Ação Educativa in the promotion, support and appreciation of afro-Brazilian and peripheral culture.
National Prize for Human Rights Education
Awarded in the category “The Society in Human Rights Education” for the experience of the “Curso Cidadania e Direito à Educação” (Citizenship and Right to Education Course), whose goal was training popular advocates of the right to quality education.
2008: Samba na Feira (Samba at the Fair)
For the contributions to Samba in São Paulo
2007: Prêmio Philips de Simplicidade (Philips Simplicity Award)
For the construction of Quality Indicators in Education
2006, 2007 and 2008: Prêmio Cooperifa – Cooperativa Cultural de Periferia
(Cooperifa Prize – Cultural Cooperative from the Outskirts)
For encouraging peripheral literary production
2004 and 2006: Jabuti Prize
Recognition, respectively, in the categories Education, Psychology and Psychoanalysis and Didactic and Informative Material for Elementary Education
2002: Prêmio Empreendedores Sociais Ashoka (Ashoka Social Entrepreneurs Award)
2000: UNESCO Prize – Category Education