The schools Cecília Meireles and Vale de Luz are 2Public Waldorf Schools localized in the city of Nova Friburgo, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The first school began working in 1985, with impulse of a local antroposophical group of studies. The second school started in 1991, as an alternative to conventional public schools, in a way the children could experience success in at least one of multiple areas, every day, and could spend more than 4 hours a day at school, less exposed then to the criminality of the area.