Tag: Mais Unidos
By Patricia Maresch, Senior Contributing Reporter and Brennan Stark, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This September marks the one-year anniversary of the creation of +Oportunidades, a professional training program being offered by USAID, a United States government agency...
By Candy Pilar Godoy, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A new project named +Oportunidades (More Opportunities) is aimed at promoting education and capacity building for at-risk youth in Brazil. It was put into action in September, 2010,...
By Amy Skalmusky, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s worst natural disaster in history, the floods and mudslides in the mountainous region of the State of Rio known as Região Serrana, brought out the best in many...
By Ananda Alves, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO – Mamirauá, which is an indigenous word for “baby manatee”, is a 1,124,000 hectare Sustainable Development Reserve, located in the Amazonas state, the largest reserve of its kind protecting flooded forest (“varzea”)...
