[5] Her charitable work in Sacramento included founding the Clube das Mãezinhas (Mommies' Club), a group of mothers who volunteered to make clothes for needy children.
[5] Novelino worked for many years as a teacher at the Colégio Allan Kardec and the Escola Coronel José Afonso de Almeida, but she also dedicated herself to the children's home, paying for its maintenance out of her own teaching salary and through sales of her books.
Again, supporters in Sacramento and neighboring areas raised funds, and a building was constructed that could house over 100 children, who received food and clothing as well as an intellectual and religious education.
[8] In 1975, along with her cousin Tomás Novelino—himself a graduate of the Colégio Allan Kardec—she founded the Escola Eurípedes Barsanulfo in Sacramento, which remains a hub of Spiritist pedagogy in Brazil.
[1] The former president of the Sacramento City Council, also a Colégio Allan Kardec graduate, said of the late religious and charitable leader:"Here is the gratitude of an entire people who recognized that, through her humble and quiet work, she was 'Mother Corina' to all of us.