São Paulo, February 11, 2004 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left the Zero Hunger Expo with his "soul cleansed," after opening the mega-event yesterday (10) morning at the North Expo Center, in São Paulo.

This information was provided by the coordinator of the fair, Abdala Jamil Abdala, who met briefly with the President. According to him, Lula was pleased with the engagement of entrepreneurs in his Administration's chief program .

The Zero Hunger Expo brings together 138 exhibitors who are presenting a wide variety of projects aimed at social inclusion. "President Lula left here, as he himself said, with his soul cleansed and quite confident in the future of his project," Abdala noted. (DAS)