Brazil
Focus: Poverty & Community Development
Location: Salvador, Brazil
Language: English & Portuguese
Dates: July 12 - August 8, 2009
Housing: Shared student residence
Program Fee: $5,000
Northeastern Univ. Applicants: All tuition & fees covered by summer tuition.
General Application: $35 Deposit Due at Enroll: $500
Included: Two
meals daily, airfare, housing, airport transfers, entrances, emergency
medical evacuation, and course fees. Not included: personal basic
medical insurance and personal expenses while in country.
Admissions: Online
Global PACT Brazil focuses on poverty & community development in Brazil's great Northeast. Salvador, the first colonial capital of Brazil, is at the heart of the state of Bahia, the home of capoeira, carnival and over 80% of it's population traces its' heritage from west Africa. This program will appeal to students interested in global activism and advocacy surrounding issues of poverty and environmental concerns. This international Activist Training Program is based at the University of Bahia, where Global PACT has established a new partnership. Students will work with Brazilian students in small groups to identify, break down, and research social problems confronting the community. Each team will then design a project to address its problem.
In addition to the three-week training in Bahia, students will travel for several days to Manaus, the Amazon jungle's port of entry. "This city of 1.5 million lies along the north ban
k of the Negro River, 11 miles (18 km) above its confluence with the Amazon (Solimoes). It is located 900 miles (1,450 km) inland from the Atlantic coast in the heart of the Amazon rain forest. As a major inland port (reached by oceangoing vessels from the Atlantic), it is a collecting and distribution center for the river areas of the upper Amazon. Principal exports include rubber, Brazil nuts, rosewood oil, jute, and a host of minor forest products; cordage and coffee sacks are made from jute. Manaus' industries include brewing, shipbuilding, soap manufacturing, the production of chemicals, the manufacture of electronics equipment, and petroleum refining (the oil being brought by barge down the Amazon from Peru)."
