After May 1st, a national holiday in Brazil (and also here major shopping centers were open ...), a large delegation visited the "Draft Social Educators" in Salvador. Sara Callegari, Marco and Stefano Bravin of Ipsia Calvetti, had long planned a "mission" to check the progress of the project closure and to strengthen relationships with local partners. He then added that a delegation from the ACLI was visiting Sao Paulo: Michele Council (vice president of ACLI) Simone De Fazio (coordinator of the global network aclista) and Rita Blasioli Costa (ACLI President of Brazil).
It was a week full of meetings and is particularly interesting and motivating for the Italians (and co-operating services civil), which for local staff.
In addition to meetings with the partners of today (and ACOPAMEC CEPAM) we were able to visit other companies to design and think of new ways to go to Salvador or Brazil (Association Cidade da Criança, Federal University, SEBRAE, Asst Art and Work ), we met with the Honorary Consul of El Salvador and with representatives of communities of Trentino and Abruzzo who live in the state of Bahia. We have done all the progress of the project meetings to deal with the ACLI and deepen the thematic associations. Telling of our experience in Brazil, we were updated on what Ipsia is doing in other countries where it works, confronting especially on the values \u200b\u200bof participation and solidarity economy. With
ACLI Sao Paulo then, we started the contacts which I hope will grow to build future collaborations.
We also tried to introduce some cultural characteristic of Salvador, a city world famous for its cultural and social contradictions. Only one critical point was unfortunately the time, we were unable to provide a bit of sunshine to my Italian friends, we took the opportunity to work a bit 'more ... oh well, do not overdo it: o)
the first contact IPSIA delegates with a Brazilian coconut
