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Founded in 1988, the North-East Centre for Popular Medicine is a Brazilian NGO which trains, organizes, and structures community-based groups to be more effective in advocating for a public health policy, through programmes in:
"The story of the Northeastern Centre for the Peoples’ Medicines (CNMP) begins in 1979, when the founders, Celerino Carriconde and Diana Mores, began to reinvigorate the use of medicinal plants amongst the inhabitants of Casa Amarela, a district within city of Recife.
At this time, there were high levels of infant malnutrition, women’s ill-health, cancers, food insecurity and a series of social ills which were existing side by side with the de-humanising queues at the National Institute of Social Welfare; this discriminatory and exclusionary system considered those with low income to be less deserving. So, after collecting together 100 of the medicinal plants most used by the populace, the couple searched in a scientific manner to record this knowledge of thousands of years, using these plants clinically at their neighbourhood clinic, and publishing facts later in the bulletin “De Volta às Raízes” (Return to the Roots)." more
Fundado em 1988, o Centro Nordestino de Medicina Popular é uma ONG que desenvolve um trabalho de educação popular na área da saúde. O Centro vem se firmando como mobilizador das forças populares, desenvolvendo um trabalho de formação, organização e articulação de grupos comunitários para a efetivação das políticas públicas de saúde, através dos programas de:
"A história do Centro Nordestino de Medicina Popular (CNMP) teve inicio em 1979, quando os fundadores Celerino Carriconde e Diana Mores começaram a resgatar a utilização das plantas medicinais (matos) pela população do Bairro de Casa Amarela, no Recife.
Nesta época, os altos índices de desnutrição infantil, a vulnerabilidade da saúde da mulher, o câncer, a precariedade alimentar e uma série de mazelas sociais andavam lado a lado às desumanas filas do INPS (Instituto Nacional de Previdência Social), um sistema discriminatório e excludente que considerava indigentes os cidadãos economicamente desfavorecidos." mas
Tupiniquim is a Portugeuse-language blog that raises awareness about the plight of the indigenous population in Brazil, other Central and South America. The content is primarily a reposting and translation of Brazilian and international news articles.
You can read a (rough) translation of the current content using Google's translation service by clicking here:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Findios.blogspot.com...
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Tupiniquim é um blog Portugeuse que aumente a consciência sobre a população indÃÂgena de Brasil e de outros paÃÂses de americano central e sul. O ÃÂndice é primeiramente dos noticias brasileiro e outra notÃÂcias internacionaes traduzidos em Portugeuse.
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