CHAPTER: Georgia (View Pernambuco, Brazil Profile) Coming Soon!

FOUNDED: 1968

OVERVIEW / HISTORY:

The original founders on both sides represented government, business, and academia. Between 1972-1983 eleven trips with plane loads of citizens each way, matched families by occupational themes, led to lasting friendships, many of which continue to this day.

Although this thread of family and vocational counterparts continues, delegations of administrators, legislators, judges, seminars by business and health professionals in rehabilitation and medicine led to more partnership activities. Most have become self-sustaining, such as physical therapy and rehabilitation (since 1978) , business, 1985 , medicine (Pediatric Society exchange) , teachers exchange, sports teams , violence prevention. University linkage in Agriculture remains strong since 1969. Several Georgians were Kellogg Fellows

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
2001-2002:

• Agriculture: Farmer to Farmer exchange and research planning continue.
• Business: Georgia Partners members overlap with the Brazil American Chamber of Commerce leadership in Georgia. Annual meetings have been held in some of the more than seven new Brazilian Restaurants in Atlanta.
• Character Education: Visits of Martha Menge, Theresa Santos and Adelia Mello began and continued comparisons of character education curricula .
• Citizenship: Exchange of State Supreme Court Judges is ongoing, speakers to the newly formed Pernambuco School of Legislature have been invited and gone from Georgia
• Culture:
  
  • Instituto Vida: project supported fashion show of youth using recycled materials, leading to subsequent and design of clothing later sold in boutiques.
  • Suzuki project provided for instrument repair and family social service home visits to young musicians in Alto do Cel community
  • Travel grant for Director of an institute for poor children and Where Beauty Resides projects :
    NGO administrator visited Georgia to learn about Afro American hair braiding, and an art museum curator from Georgia visited Pernambuco to demonstrate ethnic pride and hair styling.
• Domestic Violence project for families in a poor community stimulated closer communication between the two sides of the partnership, and recruitment of new members in Pernambuco.
• Environment: a Pernambucan city alderman visited Georgia to learn about urban arborization.
  Social/vocational stimulation of indigent youth and Leadership Development
  A donations were made to POMMAR to support programs and Partners of the Americas youth leadership development.
• University Linkage: Federal Rural University celebrated its 30th anniversary with University of Georgia at Athens; Georgia sent one of the Founding members to commemorate. directions Federal University: Suzana Monteiro Queiroz , international exchange coordinator of Federal university of Pernambuco visited Georgia and other states, to obtain ideas as that university began an American Studies Center. Georgia recruited Board members from wider geographic representation, and began holding meetings at university sites outside Atlanta.
  Faculty and postgraduate students from public and private universities in Pernambuco, other Brazilian states and Mercosul were hosted in both directions.
• Youth exchange A high school student from Boa Viagem School in Pernambuco and a high school student from Lovett School in Georgia designed and piloted a more formal youth exchange than the youth visits which were already occurring spontaneously Georgia partners support was given to BRASA's Annual meeting held in Atlanta (Brazil Studies Association), Lusophone Fair at UGA, and Brazil Business Summit with Georgia State University.

ONGOING ACTIVITIES / PRIMARY CHAPTER INTERESTS:

• Regional Management Training for Mayors, and later for Local Educator Administrators.
• Domestic Violence Pernambucan to visit Georgia to visit shelters
• Agriculture economics seed and irrigation projects continue university linkage
• Pediatricians from Savannah are invited to lecture at UPE on terminal illness
• Physical therapists from Pernambuco continue continuing education, internships and postgraduate professional degrees.

COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS/SUPPORTERS:

• University Linkages - Georgia members from:
  • Clark Atlanta University
  • Georgia State University
  • North Georgia College
  • Spelman University
  • University of Georgia at Athens
    
• with
  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco,
  • Federal Rural Universityof Pernambuco
  • University of Pernambuco (the state university),
  • Catholic University of Pernambuco

Visitor also lectured at Emory University, and designed joint Investigation with scientist at Centers for Disease Control.
Brazil American Chamber of Commerce

TAM airlines (Trans Aereas Meridionais)