GPACT program

I have a little bit of time so I figured I would explain a little about what we´re doing in the GPACT program.

The program is around 30 students, pretty much half Brazilian and half American. We´re split into groups, ours has 2 Brazilians and 3 Americans. One of the Brazilians speaks English fluently to translate (the other doesn´t at all) and one of the Americans speaks almost fluent Portuguese so can translate too.

We had to pick a problem in Salvador to work towards solving, and look at what the causes of it are to try and figure out how to fix it. We´re focusing on why so many students drop out of Brazilian public schools and don´t graduate and are going to a school in the favela (Brazilian slums that are built into hills) tomorrow to interview a principal, students, and teachers. Talking to the Brazilian students about this has been really interesting, they can´t believe that in America its illegal for parents to not let their children go to school...they said in Brazil if that was a law they would have to arrest half the country.

Hope this gives you a general idea of what we´re doing....I´ll definitely update more soon