Levantamos In Action

 December 2007:  Levantamos and donor, Douglas Simon, present the Institute for the Blind with a check for $10,000 to fund the Bahian organization's work with blindness and blindness prevention in Afro-Brazilian communities in Bahia  

February 2008:  Levantamos awards Bahia Street U$5000 to fund its program directed to providing educational assistance for Afro-Brazilian girls in Bahia.  

May 2008: Levantamos co-hosts a free trade showcase of Brazilian artisans in partnership with fair trade entrepreneur April Thompson  in Washington, D.C. Levantamos introduced the work of Coopertane to the U.S. market.  The director of Coopertane was a participant in Levantamos' Women to Women in Business Exchange.  

July 2008:  Rachel Cantave, a recent alumnus of New York University, joins our current Brazilian Program Assistant, Marcio Lima, working in the Levantamos office in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

August 2008:  The State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awards Levantamos a U$290,000 grant to help fund its youth entrepreneurship exchange program.  

September 2008:  Levantamos is awarded a contract to manage College Horizons, a U.S. State Department program focused on increasing Black youths' access to university in Rio de Janeiro.    

October 2008:  Levantamos Executive Director, Simone Manigo-Truell dos Santos and program assistant Rachel Cantave participate in the launch of the U.S. - Brazil Joint Action Plan to Combat Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Brasilia, DF,  Brazil.  U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice signed the accord with Brazil in March 2008 in Salvador, Bahia.  

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