The DRCLAS Brazil Studies Program would like to remind students that applications for the Brazil Public Policy Immersion Program (PPIP) are due on Friday, February 20, 2009.

Between June and August of 2009, ten Harvard students will be selected to participate in a 9-week intensive program targeted at providing an opportunity to gain hands on experience in a policy-focused internship with some of Brazil’s leading institutions in São Paulo.

For complete details about the PPIP and the application, please see: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/brazil/student/ppip.

As this is a new program, we have also created a more detailed program brochure that can also be accessed via the program's page or at: http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/files/2009-PPIP.pdf.

Potential policy-focused internship project topics with leading Brazilian NGOs including:

*Improving library access and literacy in the Amazon for children

* Working for greater racial equity in public school systems

* Reducing the vulnerability of children to diseases limiting physical and mental development

* Improving municipal education policies in the State of São Paulo

* Increasing employment in the formal sector of the economy

* Providing health care for the Bolivian immigrant population in the city of São Paulo

* Promoting sustainable development in the Vale do Ribeira

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Marcio Siwi
Fellow / Program Officer
Brazil Studies Program
Harvard University
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
1730 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
tel (617) 495-5435
http://drclas.harvard.edu/brazil