LBV-Legião da Boa Vontade

Founded in 1/1/1950, LBV is recognized in Brazil and abroad for its work in education and social assistance areas and acts on behalf of low-income families. Its mission is to promote culture and education with ecumenical spirituality, so there is environmental consciousness, feeding security, health and work for all, in the wake of the planetary citizen

In these more than six decades, LBV expanded the work for all around Brazil, for Latin America, EUA, and Europe, acting endlessly in the integral formation of the human being and of its eternal spirit. With people and partners support, it builds in the present a better future

LBV acts in dozens of Brazilian cities, paying quality treatment that covers from children to elderly and extends to their families. There are more than 70 unities social and educational unities between schools, nursing homes and communitarian centers of social assistance, which rescue in each served person his/her self esteem and transform their realities to a better one.

The Legion of Good Will has independent bases in other six countries: Argentina, Bolivia, USA, Paraguay, Portugal and Uruguay and is one of the biggest humanitarian movements of the world

MSF-Médecins Sans Frontières

Doctors Without Borders is an independent international humanitarian organization committed to bring help to people who really need it without discrimination of race, religion or public convictions.

It was created in 1971, in France, by young doctors and journalists, who acted as volunteers in the end of the sixties. While the medical team rescued victims in a brutal civil war, the group noticed the limitations of the international humanitarian help: the difficulty of access to the location and the burocratic and politic obstacles made many keep quiet in front of the observed facts. MSF then arises like a humanitarian organization which associates medical help and public sensibilization about the suffering of its pacients, bringing to light realities which can’t be neglected anymore. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Today, more than 34 thousand of professionals, from different areas and nacionalities, make up the organization. Scattered over 70 countries, they act in contexts that involve human and natural disasters, conflicts, epidemics, malnutrition and exclusion of the access to health. Currently MSF, is one of the biggest non governmental organizations in the world

MSF arrived in Brazil in 1991, to combat a cholera epidemic in Amazonia. After the control of the outbreak, the organization stayed in the region until 2002, promoting a preventive medicine work with indigenous tribes

In 2006, MSF established its office in the country and recently created the Brazilian Medical Unit, whose goal is to enable and train MSF professionals to improve its action in the projects

Source:http://www.msf.org.br/

AACD-Associação de Assistência à Criança Deficiente

The Association of Assistance to Disabled Child is a private entity, without profitable purposes, that is working for more than 62 year for the welfare of people with physical disability. It was born from the dream of a doctor that wanted to create in Brazil a rehabilitation center with the same quality of the centers he knew abroad, to treat children and teenagers with physical disabilities and reinsert them in society. And like this AACD was created in 1950.

            In the start, it was a very small entity and worked in two townhouses in São Paulo. But, thanks to the collaboration of the first donators, AACD could establish its first rehabilitation center in a ground donated by the prefecture.

            Mission: Promote the prevention, habilitation and rehabilitation of people with physical disabilities, especially children, teenagers and youths, favoring the social integration.

Since more than a decade, AACD performs the Teleton, that every year gathers artists, presenters, and personalities in a television marathon in pursuit of donations.

There are many ways you can help AACD, like becoming a monthly donor or making an only donation, donating products or with volunteer work

Source:http://www.aacd.org.br/