Year Abroad Internships - Bahia Street

Bahia Street (Salvador) works to educate young black girls in Bahia, Brazil. Bahia Street began when Rita Conceino, a sociologist of Salvador, Brazil and Dr. Margaret Willson, an anthropologist who was working in Salvador, decided after several years of working together in the slums of Salvador that they wanted to actively work for change in breaking the cycles of poverty they saw. They talked to people in the favelas and the constant answer that came was: education, quality education that would allow young people to obtain professional middle-class jobs and middle-class incomes--and who would have middle-class power for change. From these conversations, Bahia Street was born.

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