The Forum will also discuss other topics such as health, education and the collaboration or not of the Citizen Action with government projects. For the last two years, the Citizen Action has been involved in the organization of citizen committees which have collected and distributed food to hundreds of thousands of poor people. Many of the committees during the last year have focused on the creation of employment. Initiatives in this areas range from small clothes factories to the manufacture of bricks. During the next year their focus will be on land - both rural and urban.
Brazil is the champion in the concentration of land.
It is unbelievable that there exists a ranch of 4 million hectares as we see here in Brazil. He went on to say that the Citizenship Action would challenge the local committees to develop projects dealing with the land question. Government policy in this area will be challenged and it would be necessary to call attention to the importance of rural and urban settlement of the landless. Land concentration is also a reality in urban areas. Betinho admits that there is likely to be a reaction against this campaign.