Message-ID: <19960628001732042.AAA80@smtp.persocom.com.br> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:17:41 +0000 From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:joaquim.moura@PERSOCOM.COM.BR> Subject: Re: Citizenship and Development Video in Brazil To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Dear Jorge,I am glad that you are still planning a program about our projects in Brasilia to be broadcasted by the Communitary Television. But I am sad because you will not come here to produce it with us...
Now we need know more about your plans. But first let me tell you more about ours. I think we should focus on the work done by a binational (Brazil><USA) organization (Partners of the Americas), involving the collaborative action of people from both countries, working in an integrated way... I think this will be sufficiently appealing for your sponsors and audience.
Then, we should focus on three different programs:
a) how we are trying to bring new solutions for the "youth issues": (cultural decaying, violence and gangs, street children, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, transmitted diseases, unemployment, lack of perspectives, low sense of citizenship etc.)
A.1 - The vegetable gardens we support in some poor communities, in some schools and in some institutions which give shelter to the street children; We support them with our rototiller, organizing their production, helping them to sell their products, transferring organic fertilizing technologies and control systems, etc. PS. The government doesn't have such a kind of support service. Just we do it. In Brazil, poor people and young people consider agriculture a humiliating service, and they usually hate eating vegetables... And they are very poor and weak and sick. So this project is really a very important and pioneer one, as it shows to the population and to the government (and to the other NGOs) what shall be done.
a.2 - The TOTAL Development Group, a cultural-environmental program (more or less 4-H style) being developed with the Secretary of Education of the Government of Brasilia. Our headquarters is at the School of Nature, a beautiful installation inside the Central Park of Brasilia, which will reach 8,000 students in the first year (this semester is the pilot phase), and many teachers and schools, principals, promoting a new awareness toward nature, culture and citizenship. The idea of creating a "movement" to organize, at their schools, the most interested youngsters, was ours and accepted by the School of Nature board. You may read more about it at our Web site. Click the Latest Updates option.
b) how we are supporting a microcredit project (community bank, Grameen Bank "replication") in Santa Maria, complementing what the Government cannot give or doesn't perceive how important would be to provide... So we are helping with our researches on the Internet (and at live in the USA) and lately organizing a computer aided account system, improving the control of loans, evaluations etc. Such a system could be replicated by other community associations that also want to set up their microcredit programs.
c) how we are using Internet networking capacities to gather support to our projects and broadcast our concerns and objectives, and also to broadcast toward the North a more comprehensive vision of ours (and of theirs). And how we are organizing an information site directed to the poor community leaders who soon will be able to access the Internet. _____________________________________________________
I like the idea of dividing the material to be used in more than one program. Maybe we could use the sequences in three or four programs.
In order to let me plan better, could you tell me, please: How long is your program? How many times is it broadcasted (weekly, monthly, daily?). In which states is it broadcasted? Is it local, state wide or nation wide? Where do you live? Could you send me a tape showing me your typical program? Do you or your program or the Communitary Television have a web site?
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>Dear Joaquim. First let me congratulate you for the newborn, not only you but
>also your wife. I hope that the baby brings you and your family, happiness,
>health and money.
>
>As I mentioned earlier, my program is a cultural, infomative program. It is
>broadcasted through Communitary Television and for this reason is not
>commercial, this means that I can't sell commercials time, but we have some
>sponsors. The idea of the program is to show how the Latinos living in the
>Metropolitan area assimilated the different regulations and laws affecting the
>daily life of the Latino Community. Also, in the program we have a segment
>that feature the good news and the beauty from the different countries
>>in Latin America. I think that in this part of the program is where your
>activities can match. I would like to go to your interesting Country and tape
>several segments for different programs, but I have a little problem, is
>very very little. I do not have the money, ha, ha, ha.
>
>Maybe your group can send me a script so I can coordinate from here, also
>you can use the Portuguese language.
>
>Well my dear friend, I hope that you have a clear idea what my program is
>about and how you can fit in it.
>
>Again "congratulations" for the Baby
>I talk to you soon.
>
>Jorge.
>PS: Sorry for taking time to answer your reply.
_____________________________________________________________ Joaquim Moura Partners of the Americas - Brasilia / Washington DC Committee Youth and Citizenship Development Commission Visit our WWW page on community and international development http://webwrite.com/partners.bsb-dc