Message-ID: <9504291635.AA02770@cr-df.rnp.br> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 13:35:26 EST From: Companheiros das Americas <mailto:poa-bsb@CR-DF.RNP.BR> Subject: social bank and development in Brasilia To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
Dear Friends,
As you know, we have now, in Brasilia (the Brazilian capital) a
special opportunity to support the poorer layers of population to
become productive and improve their life and citizenship standards.
As many know, Brasilia is a beautiful city, modern, lawns and trees
everywhere, where live and work the people who hired by the
Brazilian Federal Government, and, of course, businesspeople, service
providers, liberal professionals, etc. Around 500 thousand people.
But this "fantasy island" is surrounded by around 12 satellite cities,
summing about 1.5 million people the most of them unemployed
and underskilled people. Hundred thousands of youth, who have
never read a book, who go to the school but don't know why.
In this socio-cultural-economical set we have the opportunity of
having a Governor who has lived in Washington, PhD in Economics
(Sorbonne), writer (essayist and fictionist), teacher and former
Chair (Rector) of the University of Brasilia. He is completely
committed with the idea to use knowledge and ethics to help
people to organize, understand their potential, and change their/
our lives. He is well informed about the needing to create new
work opportunities to the people, through cooperatives and
small enterprises, self employment and sustainable development.
I work with his Government (as a volunteer), participating in an
official team that implements the first social-environmental
projects in the satellite cities involving since garbage recycling,
community gardens, cooperativism, social bank etc. I am helping
them with the Internet resources (you, my friends).
We have some money to start the social bank and we
would like very much to know better about this activity. I have
already received information from this list users, but I need
ning
which productive activities are the most funded (and their average
fund demanding, by project, according its objective and
characteristics) and which are the better succeeded activities
funded by the social banks. We need also read some typical
and actual projects funded by these institutions and programs,
to know their format. Please.
Soon I will prepare a digest with all the information I have
received from all our friends, via Internet, to make them
available, in a consistent format, for everybody concerned with
population, environment and citizenship development.