A local bank and a tourist resort financed a program to create a sustainable trade for the poorest citizens of a Brazilian resort community. They got the International Trade Center to help educate the people about the value of working in groups and of selling their crafts to a local resort. And a local professor's idea for creating organic waste recycling has already created 40 jobs.
See this link for more details:
http://www.intracen.org/docman/PRSR7951.pdf
This could be an interesting possibility for our community. Who would the trade be with? Local hotels? Local restaurants? Would the ITC come in to a community like ours?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Mayor & government employees coordinated the efforts
A former mayor of Belo Horizonte had combating the hunger problem in his city as one of his goals (he was a former Catholic priest, by the way). Adriana Aranhas is a native of Brazil who has a masters degree in public administration and is also a social worker and college professor. She was invited by the mayor (the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil) to supervise the Fome Zero Project. Three other professionals were also invited to be a part of this team. Each person had a different field of focus. Aranhas' focus was to develop the social part of the program.
Their state had recently written a law which made the matter of food security a manditory responsibility in Minas Gerais.
Brazil formed the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) program, a publicly funded, multi-faceted approach to feeding the poor of the city of Belo Horizonte.
Here are what some critics say about the Fome Zero program in Brazil;
Some think the food stamp program is a duplication of services, and that the existing School Grant and Food Grant programs would encourage behavorial changes better.
In destitute areas, money incentives are not working to move children beyond malnutrition. Distribution of food would be more effective here.
Here is a link to a review of the Fome Zero program through the eyes of the film makers of "The Silent Killer":
http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/227667_silent09.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=1
Here is a link to the Fome Zero Food Security Policy, which shows the different committees in the federal, state and local government that coordinate the efforts of this program:
www.fomezero.gov.br/download/Security%20Policy%20OK.pdf -
Question:
--Could several local organizations coordinate a program like this, or would the government be the best ones to coordinate the program?
--If the government should be the coordinators, how to we sell them on this program?
Their state had recently written a law which made the matter of food security a manditory responsibility in Minas Gerais.
Brazil formed the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) program, a publicly funded, multi-faceted approach to feeding the poor of the city of Belo Horizonte.
Here are what some critics say about the Fome Zero program in Brazil;
Some think the food stamp program is a duplication of services, and that the existing School Grant and Food Grant programs would encourage behavorial changes better.
In destitute areas, money incentives are not working to move children beyond malnutrition. Distribution of food would be more effective here.
Here is a link to a review of the Fome Zero program through the eyes of the film makers of "The Silent Killer":
http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/227667_silent09.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=1
Here is a link to the Fome Zero Food Security Policy, which shows the different committees in the federal, state and local government that coordinate the efforts of this program:
www.fomezero.gov.br/download/Security%20Policy%20OK.pdf -
Question:
--Could several local organizations coordinate a program like this, or would the government be the best ones to coordinate the program?
--If the government should be the coordinators, how to we sell them on this program?
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