Active Community defines goals for fighting Brazilian poverty

26/02/2002 - 12h01

Brasília, 26 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - One hundred sixty state coordinators of the Active Community program are meeting this week to discuss goals for this year which will direct their work in the country's 600 poorest areas (they have Brazil's lowest Human Development Indexes).Projects for reducing poverty and exclusion will be under examination, most of them in the areas of health, education, basic sanitation and job/income generation. (AB)