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The expansion and amplification of Pastoral da Criança
at Latin America and Caribe is being discussed today,
at the entity headquarters, at Curitiba. There are gathered
representatives of the regional office of Unicef for
Latin American and Caribe and of Brazil, the Latin American
Ecclesiastic Council, Latin American Religious Council,
Religious Conference of Brazil, Brazilian Agency of
Cooperation/External Relations Ministry, besides members
of Brazil's Pastoral da Criança. The meeting
began yesterday and it ends today, at 8 p.m.
The meeting goal is to define strategies for the amplification
of Pastoral da Criança at Latin American countries,
discuss its operation and firm compromises with the
present entities. The main focus is the beginning or
reinforcement to the work of Pastoral da Criança
at Spanish speaking countries.
Beyond this, the participants will change experiences
about the work of Pastoral da Criança in other
countries like, for example, the implantation project
of Pastoral in Angola, at a partnership with the Brazilian
Agency of Cooperation. At yesterday's afternoon, many
oaths were already pointed out. Today, the disposition
is to point the concrete steps to do the actions proposed.
Nowadays, 14 countries develop Pastoral da Criança
experience: Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, at Africa;
Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia,
Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, at Latin America; East Timor
and Philippines, at Asia.
At Brazil, Pastoral da Criança, social action
organism of CNBB (National Conference of Bishops of
Brazil) accompanies, monthly, 76, 842 pregnant women
and 1,635,461 needed children below six years old at
32,743 communities of 3,555 Brazilian counties. The
volunteer work of more than 155 thousand people resulted
in an index of child mortality below than 13 deaths
at the first year of life for each thousand born alive
at these communities. According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute
of Geography and Statistic) - 2001, the child mortality
in Brazil is of 29 deaths at the first year of life
for each thousand born alive. Besides this, between
the children accompanied, the indexes of malnutrition
were also drastically reduced.
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