cartão alimentação

English translation: food card / food voucher

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Portuguese term or phrase:cartão alimentação
English translation:food card / food voucher
Entered by: PB Trans

14:48 Jul 19, 2004
Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Internet, e-Commerce
Portuguese term or phrase: cartão alimentação
Nesta iniciativa, serão implementados 1.000
telecentros em municípios localizados em regiões de extrema pobreza, atendidos pelo cartão alimentação e pelos consórcios de segurança alimentar
Gwynneth Kably
Local time: 14:12
Food Card / food stamps
Explanation:
Inglês
... One of them is the Food Card (Cartão Alimentação) that will provide R$ 50,00 (approximately US$ 15 ... Food Card Program (Cartão Alimentação) The Food Card Program will provide ...
www.senado.gov.br/eduardosuplicy/Ingles/USBIG2003.htm

Portal Pastoral da Criança - News
... Programa Cartão Alimentação – Food Card Program. Cartão Alimentação, regulated by Presidential Decree n ... the families to be benefit by Cartão Alimentação – Food Card ...
www.rebidia.org.br/english/pressroom/news/news_0032.htm

Brazil - Brasil - BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - Zero Hunger Revamped - Brazilian Poverty - September 2003
... School Scholarship), Bolsa-Alimentação (Food Coupon), Cartão Alimentação (Food-Card) and Vale-Gás (Cooking Gas ...
www.brazzil.com/2003/html/news/articles/sep03/p146sep03.htm

Or you can leave it in Portuguese and explain that it is the equivalent of food stamps.

WELCOME TO THE BRASILIANS ONLINE! - BENVINDOS AO THE BRASILIANS ONLINE!
... Eligible families use food stamps (the equivalent of “cartão alimentação”), to purchase foods. ...
www.thebrasiliansonline.com/brasilians/english/politica/jul...

embassy of Brazil in india,Brazil embassy,india,new delhi,Brazil consulate,Brazil embassy in New Delhi, Brazilian embassy ...
SOCIAL PROGRAMS. Search. Social indicators of Brazil are far from being compatible with the size of the economy. ... grants to buy food (“Cartão-Alimentação”), emergency food distribution, ensure the ... notice that under the “Cartão-Alimentação” programme, the grants are distributed ...
www.brazilembassyinindia.com/society.htm

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Note added at 5 mins (2004-07-19 14:53:45 GMT)
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Another option would be FOOD VOUCHER

Nobel for Peace World Summit
... Food Vouchers (Cartão Alimentação) to the value of 50 reals distributed to over 1 million families in October ...
www.nobelforpeace-summit.com/home04-famezero-en.htm
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Local time: 12:12
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Summary of answers provided
3 +6Food Card / food stamps
PB Trans
4 +1meal card
Clauwolf
4electronic food voucher
Paul Dixon


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
cartão alimentação
meal card


Explanation:
:)
University Services: Dining Meal Card. The “Student Identification
Card” will be used for all university transactions and for ...
www.cheyney.edu/ cheyney.asp?page=Dining%20Meal%20Card&sec=Dining%20Services - 21k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

Meal Card Replacement & Misuse - [ Traduzir esta página ]
MEAL CARD REPLACEMENT & MISUSE. To be admitted to the cafeteria, you must have
your meal card or you must pay the cash price for the scheduled meal. ...
tigerpaw.uwa.edu/campus23.htm - 7k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

Campus Dining / Meal Card - Fairfield University - [ Traduzir esta página ]
Campus Dining Using Your Meal Card. As part of our Dining Services
Program, use your StagCard for all dining needs. You will need ...
www.fairfield.edu/student_serv/usingcard.htm - 9k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes


Clauwolf
Local time: 09:12
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Javier Ramos
1 hr
  -> Hi, Mr. Javier - thanks a bunch!
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +6
cartão alimentação
Food Card / food stamps


Explanation:
Inglês
... One of them is the Food Card (Cartão Alimentação) that will provide R$ 50,00 (approximately US$ 15 ... Food Card Program (Cartão Alimentação) The Food Card Program will provide ...
www.senado.gov.br/eduardosuplicy/Ingles/USBIG2003.htm

Portal Pastoral da Criança - News
... Programa Cartão Alimentação – Food Card Program. Cartão Alimentação, regulated by Presidential Decree n ... the families to be benefit by Cartão Alimentação – Food Card ...
www.rebidia.org.br/english/pressroom/news/news_0032.htm

Brazil - Brasil - BRAZZIL - News from Brazil - Zero Hunger Revamped - Brazilian Poverty - September 2003
... School Scholarship), Bolsa-Alimentação (Food Coupon), Cartão Alimentação (Food-Card) and Vale-Gás (Cooking Gas ...
www.brazzil.com/2003/html/news/articles/sep03/p146sep03.htm

Or you can leave it in Portuguese and explain that it is the equivalent of food stamps.

WELCOME TO THE BRASILIANS ONLINE! - BENVINDOS AO THE BRASILIANS ONLINE!
... Eligible families use food stamps (the equivalent of “cartão alimentação”), to purchase foods. ...
www.thebrasiliansonline.com/brasilians/english/politica/jul...

embassy of Brazil in india,Brazil embassy,india,new delhi,Brazil consulate,Brazil embassy in New Delhi, Brazilian embassy ...
SOCIAL PROGRAMS. Search. Social indicators of Brazil are far from being compatible with the size of the economy. ... grants to buy food (“Cartão-Alimentação”), emergency food distribution, ensure the ... notice that under the “Cartão-Alimentação” programme, the grants are distributed ...
www.brazilembassyinindia.com/society.htm

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Note added at 5 mins (2004-07-19 14:53:45 GMT)
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Another option would be FOOD VOUCHER

Nobel for Peace World Summit
... Food Vouchers (Cartão Alimentação) to the value of 50 reals distributed to over 1 million families in October ...
www.nobelforpeace-summit.com/home04-famezero-en.htm

PB Trans
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

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agree  Paul Dixon: Never heard of 'food stamps' in stamp form, though. Could it be something American?
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
cartão alimentação
electronic food voucher


Explanation:
A card distributed to poor people, and sometimes to company employees in general as a perk, so that staple foodstuffs may be purchased from the local supermarket network.

Paul Dixon
Brazil
Local time: 09:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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