The 3 days of Janja in Rome

The 3 days of the first lady Janja da Silva in Rome yielded speeches, events and meetings against global hunger, as well as a visit to Pope Francis. She and her entourage traveled on commercial flights to Brasilia to Lisbon and then to Rome. You spending involved in the trip are not yet publicalthough estimated by the press.

The Minister of Development and Social Assistance, Wellington Dias, accompanied the first lady to Italy. She And Wellington participated in the 48th session of the FIDA (International Agricultural Development Fund) Board of Governance, linked to the UN (United Nations).

During the conference “Unlocking the potential of the global alliance against hunger and poverty”, on February 12, Janja cited the need to more sustainable, inclusive and resilient food systems.

“When we talk about fighting hunger and poverty, we are talking about the need for more sustainable, inclusive and resilient food systems. And that they are producers of cheap and healthy foods”said the first lady.

Here’s the timeline of the first lady’s commitments on the trip:

• 11.FEV.2025 (Brasilia – Roma, Italy)

  • Displacement from Brasilia to Roma (closed, Air Base from Brasilia);

• 11.FEV.2025 (Rome, Italy)

  • Arrival in Rome (closed, Rome Airport);
  • Meeting with Fida President Álvaro Lario (closed meeting);

• 12.FEV.2025 (Rome, Italy)

  • Hearing with his holiness Papa Francisco at the Vatican (closed meeting);
  • Opening ceremony of the high level segment of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (Open Ceremony);
  • Event “unlocking the potential of the global alliance against hunger and poverty” (open ceremony);
  • Meeting with the Director General of FAO (United Nations Agriculture and Food Organization), Q Dongyu (Closed Meeting);

• 13.FEV.2025 (Rome, Italy)

  • Return displacement to Brazil (closed, Rome Airport)

The FIDA seeks to boost investments in agriculture and rural development to reduce poverty and hunger, especially in vulnerable regions of developing countries.

The actual costs of the journey of the Janja and Wellington Dias delegation, however, are not yet available in the government’s active transparency portalssuch as the Travel Panel of the Ministry of Management and Innovation and the Transparency Portal. THE Poder360 It found that the data from daily and tickets are not available in the Federal Official Gazette.

Still, the newspapers and published estimates of entourage spending. The 1st estimated in at least R $ 24,000, without area tickets and only for assistants.

Already the 2nd publication extended the size of the entourage with estimated spending and reached the value of $ 140,000 with a delegation of 12 people. Nor did it count on spending on tickets for most of the team.

The data should be even greater when all payments, daily and tickets, enter the government’s transparency portals. O, for example, is updated until January 26. The trip was on February 11.

Lamb com o pope

On February 12, the first lady met Pope Francis during a Vatican hearing. In a video on his Instagram profile, he said he was grateful for his husband’s health prayers, the President (PT), and talked about, launched during the G20 leaders summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2024.

“Today we started the blessed day, meeting with Pope Francis. I’m very thrilled, every time I find him is always an emotion“, Disse Janja. “I talked a little about my work with women and girls in the issue of poverty, how hunger and poverty impact girls’ lives“.

Watch the video (1min32s):

Agenda de Janja

Janja on February 3 after receiving from government opponents and.

The opposition in the House also a series of requests for information to ministers related to public janja commitments.

According to the Poder360the initiative to start publicizing the agenda came from Janja and not the new head of Secom (Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency), Sidônio Palmeira. The idea is to counter the charges on the confidentiality imposed on the first lady’s commitments.

The agendas of years and previous dates, however, are unavailable to anyone. There is still no indication of a place where Janja commitments are stored and public.