Our mission is to provide life-changing opportunities for marginalized young Brazilians and socially conscious young Americans, empowering them to realize their full potential.

Since 2006 BRAYCE has been bringing underprivileged young people, already in established programs in Rio de Janeiro and Paraty, to Camp Hazen in Connecticut, USA, where they enhance their life and leadership skills before returning to apply them on projects in their own communities. In 2009 two American interns spent six weeks in Rio and Paraty working in the home communities of the young Brazilian recruits. To date BRAYCE has organized thirteen cultural exchanges and is making a huge difference in the lives of many young children as well as enriching the lives of the American interns.

BRAYCE works with established and esteemed youth development and leadership training organizations in Brazil and the United States.

The overall purpose of the BRAYCE initiative is in total harmony with the views of the US Ambassador to Brazil, Clifford Sobel, who delivered the following words to the US Congress.

"I look forward to building new bridges and being part of our transformational diplomacy. Many of our most important successes are not in the headlines of newspapers. I have been and will be a huge supporter of exchange programs. We must make a real effort to expose young Brazilians from all backgrounds to the United States. Working with the Brazilian government, I look forward to reaching out, as we do so well in the US., to those who have not received the benefits of international trade and an expanding economy, including those that are disadvantaged, at-risk and left behind."

Connecticut Office
17 Baker Road
Chester - Connecticut 06412
USA
Tel : (860) 526 2374

Rio de Janeiro Office
Rua Henrique Dumont 125, Apt 301
Ipanema - Rio de Janeiro
CEP 22410-060 - Brazil
Tel: 21 3204 2501

Please click here to donate to the

   BRAYCE ANNUAL APPEAL

Click here to purchase tickets to Samba Rio on February 20, 2010

Click here to view the photographs of Samba Rio 2009

Channel 3 Interview and Samba

Demonstration

click here to visit Chester, CT

click here to view Spring Newsletter

click here to view video of  the 2007 Samba Dance