Brazil

Santarém is where it all started in 1994, where the pillars of community-based global learning were created, and where Amizade was born. Welcome home to the Amazon.

Experiences

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Projects

Find out more about our current and past community-based, collaborative projects.

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MEET OUR TEAM

Jullyana Franco

Site Director

Bibi Al-Ebrahim

Site Liaison

MEET OUR PARTNERS

APAE

The Association of Parents and Friends (Amigos) of Exceptionals (APAE) is a Brazilian nonprofit founded in 1977 to provide assistance in health, education, and welfare to people with disabilities.

SEARA

SEARA is a local nonprofit that works with underrepresented families in two of the poorest communities in the city of Santarém. They focus on malnourished children in the early stages of development and work to address the social needs of their families.

Trupe So-Riso

Inspired by the model created by another group named Doutores da Alegria, Trupe brings happiness to children hospitalized in the local hospitals in Santarem. The group invites its participants to dress up as clowns and sing songs along with patients during their visits.

UFOPA

Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará is the federal university of western of Pará. Founded in 1970, the institution partners with AllPeopleBeHappy by offering volunteer placements on the Hospital ship Abaré, a large vessel with a small medical clinic operated by local healthcare professionals.

RESOURCES

Safety Record

AllPeopleBeHappy has an exceptional safety record and a proven ability to respond quickly and effectively to emerging challenges. Read more about our commitment to health and safety here.

News about Brazil

Things to Read about Brazil

Steven Alexander (2007) Santarém: Riverboat Town. Missouri Partners Publishing

Kenneth Maxwell (2003) Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues. New York and London: Routledge.

Joe Jackson (2009) The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power and the Seeds of the Empire. Penguin Books.

Selections from Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn, The Fate of the Forest: Destroyers, Developers and Defenders of the Amazon (1990)

Selections from Stephen Nugent and Mark Harris’s edited volume Some Other Amazonians: Perspectives on Modern Amazonia (2004)

Selections from Cynthia Radding, Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic (2005).

Things to Read about Brazilian Healthcare

Khazan, O.: What the U.S. Can Learn From Brazil’s Healthcare Mess. Atlantic. 2014 https://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/05/the-struggle-for-universal-healthcare/361854/

Gómez, E.: In Brazil, Health Care is a Right. CNN. 2012 https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/13/opinion/gomez-brazil-health-care/

Berkman, A., Garcia, J., Muñoz-Laboy, M., Paiva, V., and Parker, R.: A critical analysis of the Brazilian response to HIV/AIDS: Lessons learned for controlling and mitigating the epidemic in developing countries. American Journal of Public Health. 95(7):1162-1172, 2005. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1449335/