First trip to Africa

In 2009, listening to his heart’s calling, Wagner Moura traveled to Africa for the first time. He visited orphanages, nursing homes, villages, and met homeless children. In those villages, he came across very sad situations in which orphans where left with no shelter or protection after the passing of their parents due to HIV and malaria. Therefore, Wagner started to think about founding a non-governmental organization to support children in Africa.

The opening of the first Community Centre

Wagner Moura returned to Mozambique, taking with him the resources from the charity fundraising event. He visited once more the villages and, with the help of some people he was taken to their chief - a spiritual and religious leader of the village to whom it is necessary to ask for permission to do any kind of work with the community. He showed him the project that was created based on 7 years of experience in volunteer work in Brazil and received permission.

In Maputo he bought the tools to build the Center in the villages. He hired local monitors and cooks, empowering them to a fraternal work. Due to the cost, he estimated to shelter 35 children, however, they ended up registering 70 children in urgent need of care. Those children had the necessity and Wagner had faith. With twice the number planned, he opened the first Fraternity Without Borders’ Community Centre in a Chokwe village.

Individuals suggested by locals were hired as monitors that were instructed and empowered according to their abilities and previous experiences. Natural leaders and cooks that had strong cultural African roots and demonstrated talent in singing and dancing were also welcomed to our team. The joy provided by music, body movement and leisure became part of those children’s lives and the model of our programs.

First FWB Caravan

In March 2013 we made the first caravan to Mozambique/Africa, with up to 16 people. Fraternity Without Borders was taking the first steps to connect the hearts of fellows living on different continents.

Bakery Construction

The fraternal movement built a bakery in Muzumuia, where FWB opened the second Community Center. The initiative provided young people the opportunity of making bread at a lower cost, having a profession and improving the welfare of the community.

Chemin Du Futur

The Chemin Du Futur orphanage, in Dakar, Senegal/Africa, is embraced by the Fraternity without Borders. The region has the biggest phenomenon of children living in the streets in the world, it is estimated that 50 thousand children do not have a home. To help change the lives of these young people, we work with Chemin du Futur to provide a home, education, and work capacitation.

Treatment for children with Microcephaly

FWB embraced the cause of children that suffer from microcephaly by supporting Adriana Melo’s project, the doctor and researcher responsible for the discovery of the association between Zika virus and Microcephaly.

Fraternity Without Borders Conference

The first Fraternity without Borders Conference was held, with the purpose of strengthening our cause and ties among volunteers that are devoted to building a better world.

Brazil, a sheltering heart

The Project “Brazil, a sheltering heart” is launched. Fraternity without Borders builds and keeps a sheltering center in Boa Vista to support Venezuelan families that cross the Brazilian border at a leap of faith and hope to overcome the worst humanitarian crises in their country.

Fraternity in brazilian schools

The act "Bottles into the Sea" comes to the end of its pilot phase and Brazilian schools mobilize to provide aid for the construction of classrooms in the villages of Mozambique.

The ideal of sowing the feeling of fraternity and desire of a world without hunger in Brazilian schools deepens and the Promotion of the project grows with plans of expanding throughout the Brazilian territory.

Fraternity without Borders Meeting II

With open heart and arms, the second FWB Meeting was hosted in Campo Grande, MS, Brazil, with the purpose of speaking about our work of love and fraternity. More than 1,500 volunteers from around the world were gathered for the sake of this beautiful cause.

FWB in Haiti

The fraternity went to Haiti to visit a project created by Jean Inoclair François’, a Haitian refugee that lived and worked in Brazil to send money to his family and 200 children in Haiti. The Fraternity without Borders started to support Jean’s project and assisted in the construction of the school “Escola Gnose of Village Quisqueya Hinche” that has the purpose of providing food and teaching children how to write and read.

City of Fraternity

One hundred families in Madagascar, who once lived in small, unstable houses begin to live in the City of Fraternity, conceived and constructed to offer a new life in community, with the incentive of fostering a culture of peace and sustainability. The project, in an area of 45-thousand square meters, includes 100 houses, an artesian well, career-building workshops, and income.

Ubuntu Nation Project

The beginning of humanitarian work in the Dzaleka refugee camp, in Dowa, Malawi. The Ubuntu Nation project is born with the dream to introduce to the world a new life model for refugee communities, based on the values of the ancient African philosophy, Ubuntu — “I am because we are.” In an area acquired next to the refugee camp, the construction of the reception center is initiated with space for workshops, a bakery, the drilling of an artesian well, a playground, and classrooms offering studies to 9 thousand children.

FWB website gains its English version and allows international sponsorship.

The Fraternity without Borders website has been translated into English and people living outside Brazil can sponsor and learn more about the humanitarian work carried out by the NGO and with contribution to the mission crosses continents.

Fraternity Without Borders turns 10 y.o. and holds World FWB Day.

On November 15, 2019, the FWB celebrated its tenth anniversary. To celebrate the moment, the organization creates the World FWB Day and, with volunteers from different parts of the world, carries out more than 50 simultaneous fraternal actions in ten countries (Brazil, Portugal, Switzerland, Canada, England, United States, Senegal, Mozambique, Malawi and Paraguay).

Book “A Alma Que Fala”(The Speaking Soul).

The founder-president of the FWB, Wagner Moura Gomes, launches his book “A Alma Que Fala”(The Speaking Soul), with reflections and testimonies of the experiences at the FWB. All income reverts to the organization.

Curumin’s Heart Project

Amid the challenge of the Covid-19 pandemic, we started the ongoing Curumin Heart campaign, which brings humanitarian aid to more than 50 indigenous communities, from the Terena, Guarani and Kaiowá ethnic groups, in the states of MS, MT in Brazil and Paraguay country: with sustainable possibilities, and food, water, hygiene items and protective equipment.

First commercial on TV

Through a donation made for this destination, to make FWB known to more people, there was a 30-day airing of two commercials broadcast on Globo News - in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Belo Horizonte. One of the VTs had the voluntary participation of godparents and the artists Reinaldo Gianecchini (actor) and Alok (DJ). The other one announced the arrival of the Fraternity in The Street project in RJ.