Evandro Chagas Institute Evandro Chagas Institute The Evandro Chagas Institute (Portuguese Instituto Evandro Chagas, or IEC) is a non-profit organization which promotes public health in Brazil named after Evandro Chagas. In the 1940s fisherman Henrique Penna from the Rockefeller Foundation in Rio de Janeiro reported that he had discovered cases of leishmaniasis in Brazil's countryside. The disease had not been previously detected in Brazil, and as a response, Carlos Chagas of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute organized a commission leishmaniasis to be headed by his son Evandro Chagas. In 1938 this commission became the "Instituto de Pathologia Experimental do Norte", or Northern Institution for
South African Translators' Institute the South African State Herald. South African Translators' Institute The South African Translators' Institute (SATI) is the largest association in South Africa representing professional, academic and amateur translators and other language practitioners. SATI was founded in 1956. Membership is open to anyone, and at present there are around 800 members (2012 figure). The institute has adopted official names in South Africa's other official languages, namely (, , , , , , , , , and ). SATI's purpose is to promote the interests of the translation profession in South Africa, chiefly through: Other developments through which SATI contributes to translation