Neighborly Cities

Real cities built in Brazil's dry northeast, in the caatinga, valleys, hillsides and forests, the Neighborly Cities have brick houses and a complete infrastructure: basic sanitation, electricity in streets and roads, administrative headquarters, bakeries, drugstores, grocery stores, educational centers, leisure areas, neighborly spaces, medical and dental offices, public phones, community gardens, chicken yards, and milking cows.

The cities go far beyond grocery stores and drugstores or comfortable houses with furniture and new bed and table linen. There is a major educational component linking our project and northeast people, once the latter is trained to work and the children learn by playing. This system varies according to each community or region.

Inlanders are proud to change their lives.

They occupy regions where it is possible for them to integrate cattle raising, commercial agriculture (irrigation - cashew) and subsistance culture (grains and vegetables). Thus, the population generates income, sustains itself and helps build new Neighborly Cities.

We chose to build Neighborly Cities in Brazil's dry northeast to accommodate inlanders as they are part of a great poverty group affected by hunger and droughts, historically unsolved and different from urban porverty. We welcome everyone regardless of race, religion or origin, thus offering the opportunity the inlanders deserve for showing courage, endurance and faith.

We want to be role models, we want to transform Brazil's dry northeast. But to do this, we need you!