Family Forest Allowance Program reaches 4 thousand families through FAS
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(09/12/2008 / )
The meeting of the administrative council of FAS, last week, on November the 4th, in Manaus, marked a successful achievement of the Foundation: 4.182 families are now able to participate in the Family Forest Allowance Program. The goal, for the first semester of 2009 is to enlarge this number for 6 thousand families. By December of the same year will reach perhaps 8 thousand families. "We must always be focused on challenges and overcome them”, said the chairman of the Foundation, Luiz Fernando Furlan, at the meeting.
Luiz Fernando Furlan (left), chairman of Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS), and council members during the meeting in Manaus.
Eduardo Braga, the state governor of the Amazonas and also a member of the administrative council of FAS mentioned that the newest partner, Brazilian Coca Cola Company is another very important achievement in the history of FAS. “The company will invest a total of R$ 20 million. It is our conquest. We shall keep on working in order to reach even more families through the Forest Allowance Program in the Amazonas State. That´s our priority”.
Virgilio Viana, the general director of the Foundation declared that FAS will continue its ´projects focused on quality for the people living inside the forests in a way that a greater number of people will participate in the program. “We shall not take our feet out of the accelerator pedal in order to increase the amount of families able to join the Forest Allowance Program and its four different types: family, associations, income and social”. Viana also believes that the presence of Coca Cola as a partner in FAS will allow new resources that have been gained with the entrance of Bradesco –Bank of the Planet – as well as the State Government of Amazonas.
From left to right, chairman of FAS, Luiz Fernando Furlan; president of Juma Reserve Association, Doracy Correa Paes; State Governor of Amazonas, Eduardo Braga; and Adnilce Mendes, who has received the card number 4 thousand of the Forest Allowance Program.
Nádia Ferreira, State Environmental Secretariat of Amazonas State agrees with the governor Eduardo Braga in the fact that the Forest Allowance Program needs to attend a higher number of communities. “Our intention is to keep on working side by side with FAS in order to reach our goals. We are the responsible for the protected areas and may continue together in that challenge”.
Willing to bring new partners for FAS, the project and developing actions secretariat, Denis Minev pointed out that the recent meeting among Eduardo Braga and the governor of the California State, Arnold Swazneger, as well as other politicians will have immediate effects on this new partnership with the Coca Cola Company. “Barack Obama is keeping an eye on what is going on in the Amazonas State. The big American companies know that. This is very important for our State that has the best preserved tropical forest in the world”.
By Antonio Ximenes
Editor of FAS website
