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* REPORT : 53
Interação
Report March/April 2005
- NGO implementation
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Tax number registration
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Bank account ok.
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Start Website designing.
- Government meetings
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Presentation of
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Presentation of Santo André / Durban MOU to the Director
of Housing and members of the technical team. The proposition was also
very positive welcomed. Another meeting is set for the April 28th
to discuss some ideas and suggestions from the municipal team in the
presence of the Head of the Housing Secretariat.
- Funding meetings
- Meeting with Instituto
Ethos, brazilian
organization of private companies engaged in social projects. They
suggested first the implementation of a practical case in order to
be the model for a donation proposal.
- Community meetings
Osasco Municipality – Metropolitan
Region of São Paulo – Brazil
- Jardim Paulista. Private area of aprox.
1200 families acquired by the community, houses under self-construction
process. Jointly with the Municipality team we had 2 meetings presenting
the housing improvement project. By the meeting were present representatives
of the National Cement Industry Association, National Construction
Material Retailers Association, BRADESCO Bank, one of the biggest
private banks in
- Área Vicentina. Private occupied area. The meeting was made
in the presence of representatives of the Housing Department. People
were very aggressive and demonstrated a total lack of knowledge about
the place they live in (land situation, number of families or shacks…).
The seemed interested on an exchange with
- Área Portal
D’Oeste. 600 families living in a lodgment
set by the Municipality 4 years ago. The reaction to the NGO presentation
was not positive, they were expecting ready
solutions for their problems. They were preoccupied with an eviction
possibility since the shacks are installed among high dangerous electricity
installations. They were very interested on an exchange with
- Área Portal
D’Oeste 2. Families living in a lodgment
set by the Municipality 6 years ago. The meeting was very turbulent,
the residents showed displeasure with the Municipality, because after
the recent political changes the land owner is starting evictions
processes against them. A 10 persons commission
was set to talk to the Municipality.
- Jardim Redenção. Private occupied area with 44 families threatened
with eviction. The dwellers showed big interest on savings and started
a savings group immediately.
- Jardim Guarani. Private occupied area with families threatened
with eviction. They had already started private savings. By the meeting
was suggested that they joint their savings into collective accounts.
They are thinking about the proposition and another meeting was set
with the NGO to discuss the alternatives of setting a kind of reserve
fund.
- Meeting with the social movement leader Veronica
to discuss a specific support from the NGO in order to set a collective
housing project for 262 families with a federal government subsidized
credit line. We got technical support from the Cement Association
for the houses projects in order to minimize the costs. The credit
of the government is limited and they have to buy land and build houses
with an amount of about US$ 6.000, which is very low for a city like