Brazil is a dynamic country of tremendous scale and contrasts. With 180 million people, it is the world's fifth most populous country and tenth largest economy. On a base of consolidated democracy, Brazil's civil society is thriving, and it leads Latin America with the most dynamic philanthropic and corporate social responsibility movements driving progressive social and cultural change.
Despite these advances, Brazil still faces great development and political challenges, including an extremely unequal distribution of income and high levels of poverty. The country's newly elected leftist Labor Party President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, "Lula," struggles with these issues as he tries to satisfy both the international financial markets as well as the millions of Brazil's marginalized who elected him.
Synergos has developed a unique itinerary that will guide you through the dynamism and challenges facing the country today. You will meet the key leaders grappling with these issues and learn and share with them ways in which community, government and business actors are promoting social change.
The trip agenda is online (PDF).
Synergos is gathering together selections of news articles as background to the trip.
Information on the April 2002 GPC trip to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, including some follow-up activities and a photo galery is online.