President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva issued a decree that expands the reach of the Luz para Todos program, focusing on remote communities in the Amazon and the productive use of energy to generate income.
The text was published in Official Gazette of the Union (DOU). Last Friday (8), the Minister of Mines and Energy, Alexandre Silveira, said that the expansion of the program will serve up to 233 thousand new families.
According to the decree, the program now “supports the qualification of local labor associated with the provision of public electricity distribution services in remote regions of the Legal Amazon”.
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In addition, the new wording also prioritizes assistance to families headed by women registered in the Single Registry for Social Programs of the Federal Government (CadÚnico); families with people with disabilities, dependent elderly people or those who have among their residents those who receive the benefit of continued provision of social assistance (BPC); and indigenous, quilombola, riverside and extractive communities, other traditional peoples, rural settlements, family farmers and communities located in conservation units or directly impacted by electricity generation or transmission projects whose responsibility is not the responsibility of the concessionaire holding these projects.
The decree also provides for the prioritization of public service installations for internet connectivity and access to water, public infrastructures for social assistance or the provision of public services, community food security infrastructures, including community kitchens, community cold rooms and collective water pumping and supply systems, and community communication and connectivity infrastructures; in addition to collective spaces, including associations and cooperatives, local socioeconomic development and support facilities and community production projects and facilities linked to the socio-bioeconomy and socio-biodiversity value chains.
