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The purpose of the following paragraph: "Few people know that the Amazon is one of the most rapidly urbanizing regions of the world," observes Jose Lopez, a Ford Foundation program officer in BRazil. The city of Manaus, for example, has grown in the past decade from 850,000 to 1.5 million. "This rural-urban migration and the resultant urban shanty-towns stand as living symbols of failed or nonexistent rural development policies," Lopez says. "In many places, small-scale rural producers have been abandoned -- devoid of health and education services... What Rubens Gomes, founder of the workshop school, and his colleagues have created in Manaus is hope."
What is explain the necessity of ventures such as Gomes's