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Koinonia highlights importance of DRR training
Jan 16, 2012
As part of an ACT appeal, members are coordinating to help mitigate and respond to natural disasters
Why we should still give to rich Brazil
Jan 11, 2012
Middle-income countries continue to need help, writes Christian Aid Director Loretta Minghella
Brazil: Rio de Janeiro farmers struggling to revive their land
Feb 10, 2011
With crops washed away and no land available to rent, farmers like Waldeli Andrade have a bleak future.
Brazil: Salvaging hope after deadly floods
Feb 01, 2011
Brazil needs more support to continue the recovery effort following deadly floods and landslides.
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: ACT getting relief to most vulnerable
Jan 20, 2011
In the worst-affected areas of Brazil, ACT members are distributing relief goods.
Food security in Southern Brazil
Jan 05, 2011
A video in Portuguese on food security in southern Brazil, produced by ACT member FLD
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
Brazil: rainforest mark of protection
Mar 10, 2010
In a bid to counter illegal logging, certification for sustainably produced logs is growing.
Brazil: women leading the fight for land rights
Mar 08, 2010
The story of Débora Santos gives us good reason to keep believing that is worthwhile to work for change.
Brazil: new skills, new jobs, new-found confidence
Mar 08, 2010
By pushing herself, Meire Jane Ribeiro dos Santos found the courage to compete for a better job.
Gallery from Brazil: Tupinambá rights
Feb 12, 2010
Brazil: human rights and land rights struggles of the Tupinambá people
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ACT in Brazil
Organisations with HQ in Brazil
- Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço (CESE)
- Diaconia, Brazil
- Fundação Luterana de Diaconia
- Koinonia, Brazil
International organisations in Brazil
Organisations funding work in Brazil
- Bread for All
- Bread for the World
- Christian World Service
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Church of Sweden
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- ICCO
- Kerk In Actie
- Norwegian Church Aid
- Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, The
- United Church of Canada
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