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.

Youth Project

Years after the beginning of our project, a new challenge aroused as we faced the fact that the first children sheltered were already young adults and had different needs and demands. In the villages, they were only able to study until the sixth grade, because higher levels of education were only offered in the city. With no money for transportation and school supply, the majority of them ended up quitting school.

It was necessary to create new ways of working to support and guide them to the future. Therefore, we created the Youth Project (Projeto Jovem) in which the sponsors would guarantee these young adults to continue their education and offering them the opportunity of having a profession. Education gave these adolescents self-esteem and confidence to inspire others in their community to follow the same path, keeping the hope of change more alive than ever.

Water for Africa

Artesian water wells were drilled in Mozambican villages. The access to water enabled the practice of sustainable agricultural cultivation allowing the project to be self-sufficient.

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.

Our own headquarters

The movement grows and the organization needs an adequate space to assist sponsors, promoters, to locate the gift shop and to manage all humanitarian projects. We therefore invest in the opportunity to purchase our own headquarters, where we also begin to put on small events, such as the launching of new campaigns and meetings for sponsors of the 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 Meeting III

The Fraternity without Borders Meeting III, which occurred on the 12th, 13th, and 14th of April 2019, gathered together volunteers, coordinators, collaborators, and friends of the cause in another moment of love and connection at Mineirão Stadium in Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil. A chain of goodness gathered more than 3 thousand people that connected their hearts to the cause in moments of pure emotion.