Brazil

*Have you utilized the knowledge obtained in the course in your activities / projects?
If answer is “Yes”, please describe your activities / projects briefly.

1. Name of Activity / Project: Seminar in the local work for the workers with physical disabilities in Sao Paulo Period: Your Responsibility: How did you utilize it: Our goal was to passed information and helped in their works.
2. Name of Activity / Project: Seminar about the program of physical rehabilitation in Japan in University of Rio Grande de Sol with JICA support. Period: Your Responsibility: How did you utilize it: Our goal was to passed information and helped in their works.

*Describe your needs and expectations for the follow-up program.

I closed temporarily with work (since April 2004), and I live now in Italy, but I must return in work (rehabilitation program of Welfare state in Brazil) than it’s very important continuous to learn and exchange information about, when I returned I must be more prepared to continue. This is a great opportunity for me in this period.

*Describe your future plans in the disability field if any.

I intend to prepare a reality plan for our institution if they give me the possibilities to do it, when I return to my country. The works with disable peoples in Sao Paulo / Brazil is yet precarious and not apriority of our government.