Message-ID: <19980723143746761.AAA64@default> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:39:38 -0300 From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:joaquim.moura@PERSOCOM.COM.BR> Subject: Re: Devel Set and World Bank met in Brasilia To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Dear Friends,I thank Uwe for his kind words in the message far bellow. To answer his and maybe your questions, I will tell the following:
1. I would like to help the government and the multilateral institutions as the World Bank or IDB to carry out projects to help the poor find a really sustainable, happy and healthy way of live and meet a better future. But this is impossible. The government and multilateral agencies' staff are closed in their self-sufficiency and refractory to collaboration from outside. They are not really concerned about the poor and nature, culture, agriculture and the future as we are. This is our nations' tragedy. And I know that this is true also for my other side, my professional side, since I work for a governmental agency, the Central Bank of Brazil. So I know both sides of this tragedy very well. Most officers from these organizations are there as they could be anywhere else, in any other governmental or multilateral agency, or even in any private corporation etc., even those that pollute the environment and make the poor poorer... They are not committed to solve the issues they are professionally involved. Of course there are some few who are but they cannot do much in the context they work. I hope this will change someday, ASAP. I also hope the World Bank will accept my collaboration to address the cultural problems that affect the Brazilian youth, the Brazilian poor, and the Brazilian landless and small tillers.
2. While I wait for this change and opportunity, I dedicate my efforts to introduce in Brazil some projects aiming the youth development, since this is a way to change the future trends. I am mainly dedicated to introduce the following projects already successful in the United States and abroad: 1. Ethical education - according the Character Counts! program 2. Environmental education - according the Project Learn Tree program 3. Entrepreneurial education - according the Minding my Own Businesss program 4. Science and communication education - according the Kid Network of National Geographic Society.
Of course I know that there are people, in Brazil and in Mexico, who could develop such projects since the fundamentals, but it would take too long, and we don't have so much time. So I think that it is very important to work in partnership with the American (or any other country's) educators who have already started programs in these directions.
You may know more about our organization, Partners of the Americas - Brasilia / Washington DC committee - and about the projects I mentioned here - by visiting our home site:
http://www.partners-bsbdc.org/
Maybe you could join a Partners committee in Mexico and get help to develop such projects - or others - there. Por favor, mantenha-se em contato conosco. Joaquim