The president of Brazil Dilma Rousseff has introduced a program to eliminate extreme poverty in her country by 2014, as she had promised during her campaign last year.
“Fighting poverty is a government duty and a task for all Brazilians,” she said in a statement at the presidential palace.
“We cannot forget that the most challenging crisis, the biggest and most distressing problem in this country, is chronic poverty. I will fight to eradicate poverty for good.”
Under the so-called “Brazil Without Poverty” plan, the government will allocate about $12.5 billion dollars a year, with some additional social programs, according to Tereza Campello, the Social Development Minister. The program will reportedly connect existing income programs with access to public education, health, welfare, sanitation, electricity and access to labor.
“We want to guarantee income, access to public services, education, health and decent living conditions. The government has an obligation to go where the poor are,” Campello said.
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