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All week, the ICBIE has been churning with activity, with Marlene's Italian courses back in session, the graffiti meeting on Thursday, and the cineform rolling along.   Saturday and Sunday promise to be the busiest of all, with several highly...

It's here at last!  After years of talking, planning and arguing, the circumstances were finally right, and we were able to completely revamp our official website.  Roy's extended visit to Salvador coincided with the presence of two great Italian volunteers,...

Assiduous readers of this blog have heard his name come up often, because our friend Paranaguá has become a very familiar face at the ICBIE.  Now we all have an opportunity to get to know him better!  For the last...

All the recent posts have described the frenetic pace of ICBIE activities in Salvador, but in the meantime, a lot of impressive work has been going on behind the scenes in Rome, where our faithful Monica has made giant steps...

It's been just over a week since I arrived here in Ribeira, and yet as I look back on the last days, my disorientated first moments in the airport of Salvador seem all a big blur. Between then and now,...

A central focus of the ICBIE mission is to strenghten the ties between Brazil and Italy, so it is only natural that we should work to tighten the bonds between committed Italians working here in Salvador.  In order to get...

Today Julio arranged to have a half a dozen kids from the Minha Vó Flor orphanage come over to the ICBIE for an afternoon of drawing lessons.  Their happy enthusiasm quickly drew together the entire ICBIE staff, and before long,...