If I had a Million Dollars to Donate to my Brazilian Neighborhod

I'd make the sidewalks flat.......every bloody sidewalk in Copacabana seems to be off kilter by several degrees in every direction it seems. There is a tool called  a "level" after all.........wonder if it translates into Portuguese ?

Just kidding, I have no idea what I'd do with R$4-5MM...............

My million would be donated to a laudable effort to improve education in local State schools while the balance of the fund could afford officialdom fresh new perks.

01/17/24  Easy one for me.  My sidekick in the Peace Corps in the 1970s was a physical therapist.  She stayed on in Aracaju after I went home and founded her own clinic, from which has developed the largest medical NGO in the (admittedly smallest) state, treating 1000+ children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities annually, as well as running an independent living home for adults with disabilities, a senior home, and a halfway house for addicts in recovery.  Centro de Integração Raio de Sol already tops our monthly giving list; $1 million would make a great start on a foundation.

@Gasparzinho 777 There was a time when I was richer than I am now and my wife and I created, constructed and financed a Brazilian Coffee House in the USA. To give it that Brazilian flair I had some of those Copacabana sidewalk panels imported to Maryland for the entrance - door to counter.  I have always been an observant bloke, but there are days when I stand alone. So even though we had a Brazilian construction crew. They installed the panels vertically rather than horizontally. I thought that non-Brazilians, forget about Brazilians knew how the sidewalk was set out.  Since you could not take them out and re-install them because they were fragile. I had to order and ship another set to the USA and have them put it back in the correct way.

I am not surprised about the sidewalks.

Roddie in Retirement

This one due to the city we are in,

I would immidiatly spend that on modernizing water delivery to poor neighborhoods hands down without a question.

    This one due to the city we are in,
I would immidiatly spend that on modernizing water delivery to poor neighborhoods hands down without a question.
   

    -@Mikeflanagan

100% agree - we have the same problem in some areas here...

Yeah, that and sanitation. Not a horrible dire situation. absolutely could be better, providing I had the funding I would ensure everyone would have access to clean safe water, and water runoff. and better stormdrains

01/18/24    I'd make the sidewalks flat.......every bloody sidewalk in Copacabana seems to be off kilter by several degrees in every direction it seems. There is a tool called  a "level" after all.........wonder if it translates into Portuguese ?
 

    -@Gasparzinho 777

I suffer from gout -- a family inheritance that somehow didn't come with a family fortune attached (so I feel kind of cheated).  After my last attack when my rheumatologist asked me some of the things that bothered me in the leadup to an attack, I told her, "the sidewalks in Manaus".  She snorted and answered, "Manaus doesn't HAVE sidewalks!"  So it's a truly national problem.

Heh Roddie.......I'm not going to ask what a box of rocks costs to ship from SA to NA........

I used to work in marble and granite. we imported. the price on some stones would make your stones shrivel up pretty quick lmao