Seju promotes citizenship caravan on Marajó Island and guarantees documents and benefits
More than a thousand people had the opportunity to regularize documents and request benefits during the initiative
Since 2021, fisherman Táisson Pimenta, from the municipality of Muaná on Marajó Island, has been unable to access the gov.br platform to apply for the defeso insurance, a benefit for small-scale fishermen to subsidize family income during the prohibition period of the activity, aimed at ensuring the growth and reproduction of species. “But with this citizenship caravan, I was able to recover my password, and now I can even sign my application,” he celebrates.
Táisson is part of the more than a thousand people served during the citizenship caravan that the State Department of Justice (Seju) promoted in the Marajó Region, from July 21 to August 2. The initiative traveled through the municipalities of Santa Cruz do Arari, Cachoeira do Arari, São Sebastião da Boa Vista, Muaná, Ponta de Pedras, providing services such as document issuance, access and regularization of the gov.br platform, and guidance on social benefits.
According to Ruth Lima, coordinator of the Justice Center of Breves, the realization of the caravan needs to consider the natural conditions in the region. “For example, to serve a quilombola community in Ponta de Pedras, we had to leave at six in the morning to take advantage of the tide. After that, the river would dry up, and it would no longer be possible to go that day. And when we arrived there with the services, people were even moved.”
Ruth emphasizes that, in this caravan, Seju was able to provide the issuance of birth certificates on the same day as the service. “The certificate takes about 15 days to be delivered, but many people needed the document to update or to retire. So Seju partnered with the registries, and in the most urgent cases, they delivered the certificate on the spot,” she explains.
Identification and inclusion - The citizenship caravans are itinerant actions that travel throughout the state, providing the issuance and forwarding of documents such as identity cards and birth, marriage, and death certificates, ensuring that citizens have access to basic civil identification rights and inclusion. In addition, the Secretariat, through the gov.br platform, facilitates the issuance of CPF, digital work card, SUS card, and ID Jovem. In 2024, through the caravans, Seju conducted more than 25,000 services in all regions of Pará.
