Brazil
Brazil
Afro-Brazilians are Brazilians who have African ancestry. In 2010, 7.6% of the Brazilian population, some 15 million people, identified as preto, while 43% (86 million) identified as pardo. Pretos tend to be predominantly African in ancestry, while pardos tend to have a lesser percentage of African ancestry. On average pardos are predominantly European, with African or Native American ancestries
Preliminary results from the 2010 census, show that 97 million Brazilians, or 50.7% of the population, now define themselves as black or mixed race, compared with 91 million or 47.7% who label themselves white.
AFRICA HEALTH ORGANISATION IN BRAZIL
In Brazil, AHO will do the following programmes:
- Set up offices in major cities with large number of Africans
- Work with Brazilian government to provide health and social care to Africans
- Work in partnership with others to deliver projects in Brazil
- Look for partnership in Brazil to deliver projects in Africa
- To recruit skilled health workforce in Brazil
- To set up health exchange programmes between Brazil and Africa
- Create fundraising programmes to raise funds in Brazil for projects in Africa
If you are interested in participating in any of these programmes, please contact us on info@aho.org