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Brazil: Novo Friburgo floods
Jan 28, 2011
A gallery of images from Gustavo Bonato, working for the ACT forum in Brazil, showing the devastation in Nova Friburgo
Brazil: relief team deployed
Jan 28, 2011
ACT Alliance has deployed a strong emergency relief team to support survivors of Brazil’s worst disaster in over 35 years
Brazil: recycling and rights
Aug 24, 2010
Head of ACT praises a recycling project run by homeless people in Sao Paolo that champions rights education as a route out of poverty
Brazil: land rights for escaped slave villages
Aug 24, 2010
ACT members supports the legalisation of lands belonging to villages founded by escaped slaves
Brazil: ACT responds to Alagoas floods
Aug 12, 2010
ACT members have delivered life-sustaining goods, food and water, to people affected by floods in Alagoas State of northern Brazil
Gallery from Brazil: Tupinambá rights
Feb 12, 2010
Brazil: human rights and land rights struggles of the Tupinambá people
ACT in Brazil
Organisations with HQ in Brazil
- Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço (Ecumenical Coordination for Service) (CESE)
- Diaconia, Brazil
- Fundação Luterana de Diaconia (Lutheran Foundation of Diakonia) (FLD)
- Koinonia, Brazil
International organisations in Brazil
- Christian Aid (CA)
- Consejo Latinoamericano de Iglesias (Latin American Council of Churches) (CLAI)
- ECLOF International
Organisations funding work in Brazil
- Brot für Alle/Pain pour le Prochain (Bread for All) (BfA)
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Christian World Service (CWS)
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Church of Sweden (CoS)
- Diakonie Austria
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Kerk In Actie (KIA)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The (PWRDF)
- United Church of Canada (UCC)
About Brazil
- GNI per capita: US$1,460 (World Bank, 2008)
- Population: 193.7 million (UN, 2009)
- Capital: Brasilia
- Largest city: Sao Paulo
- Area: 8.55 million sq km (3.3 million sq miles)
- Major language: Portuguese
- Major religion: Christianity
- Life expectancy: 69 years (men), 76 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 real = 100 centavos
- Main exports: Manufactured goods, iron ore, coffee, oranges, other agricultural produce