(Jul. 16) – Francesca Senette is an Italian journalist, best known for being the “anchorman” of Italy’s Retequattro news broadcast. Next August, she will be in Brazil to visit the projects of the ONG Intervita Onlus. Senette has already been in Benin with the ONG and this time she will be in the State of Cearà, in the Northeastern part of Brazil, where she will meet children and educators. In the State of Cearà, over 40% aged 4-12 years doesn’t get an education and lives on the street, so increasing the risk to suffer violence and abuse. Intervita Onlus proposes a specific Developmental Education projects for the different levels of schooling, on issues linked to human rights and the fight against poverty. In the coastal area of Fortaleza, Intervita also promotes a sustainable tourism project that aims at encouraging the construction of a network of tourist services managed directly by local communities, in respect of the environment and traditional culture. This will be the third time with Intervita for Francesca Senette, who has followed the ONG in Cambodia in 2009 – where she shoot a documentary for the magazine Donna Moderna – and in Benin in June 2011, for a child nutrition projects. (Gil/Peg)
