"Bolsa verde", literally "Green Scholarship", aims to financially support indigenous peoples of the Amazon. In exchange, families agree to take care of the forest.
Initially, "BolsA verde" will pay some 30,000 families. In 2011, when the initiative was launched – before being abolished by Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 – the purse amounted to 300 reals (equivalent today to 57 euros). The maximum monthly income to receive it was 85 real (16 euros)