MPPE launches campaign to encourage allocation of part of IR to funds for the elderly and children | Latest: Pernambuco.com

The Public Ministry of Pernambuco (MPPE) launched the 2024 “Multiplique Solidarity” campaign.

The project aims to encourage and clarify doubts about how people can allocate part of the amount to be paid in Income Tax to funds for the rights of elderly people and children and adolescents.

The action was carried out during the Elderly Person’s Caravan, at the headquarters of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB-PE).

“This campaign is very important to encourage the population to participate in the formulation of public policies. Thus, society is able to contribute to the improvement of services aimed at elderly people, children and adolescents, while at the same time strengthening the Councils, which are spaces of social control, in which organized civil society, on par with the management public sector, formulates, monitors and supervises service to these audiences, in addition to supporting, with resources from the funds, innovative and specific projects, which, if well evaluated, can be incorporated and provided by the public authorities. Therefore, the involvement of society is fundamental, especially because the donation is deducted from the tax to be paid and those who are entitled to a refund increase the amount to be received. That said, our focus is to strengthen Pernambuco’s municipal funds”, highlighted the Attorney General and coordinator of the Elderly Person’s Caravan, Yélena Araújo.

At the event, guests presented important contributions regarding the importance of the campaign in promoting fundraising for municipal funds for the elderly and children and adolescents through the IR declaration.

The prosecutor and Coordinator of the Center for Operational Support for the Defense of Children and Youth (CAOIJ), Aline Arroxelas presented data on the composition of the Child and Adolescent Councils and in relation to the regularization and potential for raising funds for children and of adolescents from the municipalities of Pernambuco.

Furthermore, the Public Prosecutor highlighted CAOIJ’s role in encouraging the allocation of resources through meetings, awareness raising and coordination with institutions, as well as forwarding information and reports to the Public Prosecutor’s Offices with responsibility for the topic.

The second speaker, Vitória Cardoso, vice-president of the OAB-PE Third Sector Law Commission, focused on data relating to the collection potential and the evolution of funds for elderly people in the state’s municipalities.

Finally, Public Prosecutor Yélena Araújo presented the campaign’s identity and audiovisual products, which contain educational data on who can donate, how and how much can be allocated from the IR declaration. Furthermore, the coordinator of the Elderly Persons Caravan highlighted the importance of the interinstitutional work of the 60+ in Action – Integrated Public Policies project.

The Program, which brings together government and civil society entities that work to defend the rights of elderly people, is a partnership between MPPE; TCE/PE; MPCO/PE; OAB/PE; CRCPE; AMUPE; Women of Brazil Group; Third Age Research Institute; State Council for the Rights of the Elderly (CEDPI) and Centro Universitário Frassinetti do Recife (UNIFAFIRE), as well as the Legislative Assembly of Pernambuco (ALEPE) and the National Association of Municipal Prosecutors (ANPM) with partners.