Brazil
Brazil is the tenth most unequal country in the world, where the poorest ten percent of Brazilians receive just one percent of national income.
Despite recent economic growth, 48 million Brazilians are living in poverty and struggling to meet their basic needs. Poverty and injustice have led to high levels of inequality in both rural and urban areas. CAFOD and our partner organisations are addressing some of the key problems that affect the poorest and most marginalised groups.
We're working with indigenous people to help them improve their living conditions and protect the Amazon rainforest. We support projects with children and young people in the shanty towns of Recife so they will have more opportunities for a better future.
We're helping homeless families in Sao Paulo and landless families in the north and north-east of Brazil to have a more secure place to live. Together with our partners, we're lobbying the government to provide vulnerable people with greater access to basic social welfare and so end the vast inequality that characterises Brazilian society.
In 2010/2011, CAFOD spent £983,484 in Brazil to improve housing, education, agriculture and human rights.
Get behind the headlines and take a journey with ordinary people leading extraordinary lives. Connect2 Brazil today. |
![CAFOD Westminster's Tony Sheen with fellow Smiths fan Janaina Cristina da Silva, who is employed by CAFOD partner Apoio working in a night shelter for the homeless in Sao Paulo [CAFOD]](/var/storage/images/about-cafod/where-we-work/brazil/images/tony-sheen-with-fellow-smiths-fan-janaina-cristina-da-silva/116989-4-eng-GB/tony-sheen-with-fellow-smiths-fan-janaina-cristina-da-silva_0column75_06space_landscape.jpg)
 Cafod partner attacked over logging dispute CAFOD has received news that our Brazilian indigenist partner, CIMI Maranhão, and the Awá-Guajá indigenous tribe have been attacked by two Awá-Guajá people bribed by illegal loggers in their territory. |
 International Women's Day: Brazil We're making women’s voice heard, with advocacy on the streets and online in Brazil. |
 CAFOD director writes to Nick Clegg ahead of the Deputy PM’s Brazil visit Ahead of the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s 3-day visit to Brazil, CAFOD Director Chris Bain wrote to him to raise important environmental and humanitarian issues. |
 Wangari Maathai: a global inspiration Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize, died on Sunday night. CAFOD's Joseph Kabiru describes her as "my heroine, a global inspiration, and a true Kenyan warrior". |
 Brazil: Fighting modern-day slavery A CAFOD partner is helping poor people in Brazil stand up for their rights against some of the powerful landowners |
We are providing emergency help for people affected by flooding in Sri Lanka. At a time when several countries are being affected by severe weather we ask is this the result of climate change? |
 Brazil: Homes for the homeless: life in a flophouse Video Story: Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo is home to a momentous 11 million people - more than two million live in corrugated shacks, one million in run-down tenement buildings and, with jobs hard to find, 15,000 are living on the streets |
