Examples of such debts are in the areas of land ownership, access to public health programs, marginalization, the increasing violence and unemployment as well as the unjust income distribution. On the land question, the participants recalled the very precarious situation of the small land-owners, of the landless and rural workers. Agricultural polices have favored the large land owners and economic groups and the poor have been excluded from the land, from bank loans and from decent working conditions. On the question of health the participants in the social week recalled that the public health programs for the poor are totally inadequate. Workers in such programs are poorly paid, public funds for health are badly used and such public programs when they do exit are concentrated in the state capital.
Unemployment is classified in the document as the result of a perverse neo-liberal policy.
The participants also recalled that at times the Church has added to this debt by not having always given attention to the poor. In order that such social debts may be overcome the social week in Sergipe recommended that the christian communities, the State and all sectors of society work to guarantee access to land through different forms of organization and struggles which will promote a real agrarian reform as well as adequate public agricultural policies. The participants also defended the municipilization of the public health system - with the installation of municipal health councils, public spending and priorities in this area could be more easily monitored. The participants also called for the implementation of an effective education policy geared to eliminate illiteracy and child labor. Having identified the above needs and priorities the participants decided to work on a number of practical proposals.