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 -- 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