Whenever a migratory crisis knocks on your door, we have got two options: closing the borders or openning our hearts.

The Fraternity without Borders, via the Brazil Project, a Heart that Welcomes, welcomes everyone to shelter refugee and immigrants Venezuelans people and, together, launch to the world a message of peace.

We reached out at the border between Brazil and Venezuela in October of 2017 and, with the help of volunteers, staff, sponsors, we built our first Sheltering Center, where the families started having meals, health service orientation, psychosocial  support, education, portuguese classes and still, as the entire process´ protagonists, also started sharing responsibilities at the Sheltering Centers. 

Through a partnership with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, and Operation Acolhida (the Brazilian government’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela) we manage 3 reception centers in Boa Vista-in the state of Roraima (RR) and we have our own Interiorization Section. Overall, we have 5 work fronts, over 2 thousand work fronts, welcomed and over 1 thousand qualified, all years, to the brazilian work market.

Roraima is a very small state for so many restarts. With that being said, hundreds of families are awaiting for help via new possibilities in other brazilian cities.

From October 2017 to December 2021, 1,500 Venezuelans refugees and immigrants were internalized by the Brazil Project, a Heart that Welcomes.

This means that these people were taken to other Brazilian states, voluntarily, based on two principles: Roraima is the smallest Brazilian state and there is no way to effectively serve everyone, with health, education and employment; and the fact that the migration crisis is a humanitarian crisis the entire country is responsible for.

But we still need to go further and the heart is our strength.

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