“Good Morning! While you were sleeping…” In the early hours of the morning on the 26th April, 2000 families who are part of São Paulo’s homeless movement chose to actively fight for their rights to a decent and dignified home. Brazil acknowledged the right to housing in 2002. Yet, a growing portion of the city [...]
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March 24, 2010
Brazil: A clean slate?
What a turn of events here in Latin America’s largest democracy! I spent the day with our partner, the Brazilian Justice and Peace Commission, in the Brazilian Congress surrounded by deputies (lawmakers) discussing the future of a very special law. Over the past two years, through strong grassroots mobilization, 1.6 million signed a petition promoted [...]
December 9, 2009
Climate change: Copenhagen will shape our future
On Saturday the world’s media turned its spotlight on The Wave march through the streets of London. More than 50,000 people from every walk of life came together to put pressure on Gordon Brown ahead of the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen. And what a day it was: CAFOD supporters from all over the country [...]
October 6, 2009
Fill Brazil With Pound Coins
On Harvest Fast Day 2009 students from The Catholic High School Chester took up the challenge of filling a map of Brazil with £1.00 coins. Sue and Liz from CAFOD were invited to the school, by Paul Lever the School chaplain to support the students Fast Day Work on Brazil. We were able to tell [...]
October 5, 2009
Brazil: Football dads learn good parenting
I’m working hard to get the dads involved with our work in the community here in Peixinhos. The mothers had been coming for a while already. There were 30 mothers and just one or two fathers. This is the other side of the story.
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