Check out outstanding solidarity campaigns

In such a difficult year in the country's history as 2021, countless solidarity campaigns brought support and hope to many people. With the aim of highlighting the importance of actions like this and highlighting some highlights, the Movimento Bem Maior prepared a list of ten initiatives that helped to reduce the suffering of Brazilians in this year of pandemic and strong economic crisis.   

– Mothers of the Favelas

Imagine being a mother, heading a family and being out of work because of the crisis generated by the pandemic. To help these women who live in favelas, Cufa (Central Única das Favelas) continued its “Mães das Favelas” program at full steam in 2021. The project operates along two lines: one is to bring basic food baskets to these women in various cities across the country, and the other is to make resources available at the same value as the basic food baskets so that mothers themselves can define what is a priority for their children. families and can choose, for example, between buying food or cooking gas. The total collected in the solidarity fund in 2021 until November 8th was R$425.8 million.

https://www.maesdafavela.com.br/

– United against Covid-19

Form a network of partners to invest in science in the war against coronavirus and also support the population suffering from hunger. This is an invitation made by the “Unidos contra a Covid-19” campaign by Fiocruz (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz), a traditional health science and technology institution that produces the AstraZeneca vaccine in Brazil. In this campaign, individuals and organizations can make their contribution to an emergency fund for research and clinical studies and for actions to combat coronavirus. Donations also contributed to leaving a legacy, such as the construction of a hospital center. From April 2, 2020 to May 26, 2021, R$491 million was raised.

https://unidos.fiocruz.br/

– Rio Union Movement

With the pandemic, civil society organizations, companies and individuals gathered in Rio de Janeiro in a movement, União Rio, which helps to reduce the impacts of the pandemic, acting on the health front and supporting vulnerable communities. Among its actions, the group works on fundraising, technical and budgetary research to purchase products, carrying out necessary works, delivering donations and logistics. Other similar groups were formed in other states, which led to the creation of a movement at a national level, UniãoBR. Between January 2021 and November 19, 2021, R$14.7 million was raised.  

https://www.movimentouniaorio.org/

– Corona no Paredão – No Hunger

The organization Gerando Falcões maintains its “Corona no Paredão – Fome Não” campaign to bring digital basic food baskets, which are only enabled for the purchase of hygiene products and food, to families in need of support. Gerando Falcões acts as a bridge, taking care of the logistical process until the benefit card reaches the partner social leader, who will distribute it. R$150 is donated for two months to each family. The organization also invites individuals and corporations to engage in the campaign as “angels” to encourage more people to donate. The institution's website says that as of October 11, 2021, R$70.2 million had been raised.

https://site.gerandofalcoes.com/coronanoparedao

– HC com Vida

“HC com Vida” is an alternative financing campaign by Hospital das Clínicas, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo. All donations go directly to the non-profit, philanthropic foundation of this college. Based on the demands of the hospital's crisis management department, objectives are stipulated to be supported by contributions. One of the goals is to create a space outside the hospital ward so that hospitalized children can have moments of recreation and leisure, feeling the sunlight, the wind and the smell of plants. Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than R$30 million has been raised for the hospital.

https://viralcure.org/c/hc

– Volunteer Architects

To support healthcare professionals amidst the pressure faced during the pandemic, a group of architects mobilized to build decompression and coexistence spaces in hospitals, clinics and emergency rooms. The actions helped to humanize the structures of these places, renovating and creating appropriate environments so that professionals involved in the fight against Covid-19 could rest, sleep and eat. The Voluntary Architects collective brought together donor companies, mobilized people from different areas, formed help networks and also engaged communities. The group has already donated more than 50,000 hours of work to benefit healthcare professionals.

https://www.instagram.com/arquitetosvoluntarios/

– There are hungry people

“Tem Gente com Fome” is a national fundraising campaign for emergency actions against hunger, poverty and violence during the pandemic and seeks to serve families mapped by social organizations that operate in neighborhoods, favelas and quilombos in all states of Brazil . The products distributed per family have a value of R$200. The movement is an initiative of the Black Coalition for Rights, a group that brings together 200 organizations, in partnership with Amnesty International and several other entities. Launched in March 2021, the campaign raised more than R$21.4 million by November.

https://www.temgentecomfome.com.br/

– Brazil Without Hunger

One of the legacies of solidarity left by sociologist Herbert de Souza, Betinho, is there. Citizenship Action, founded by him in 1993, promoted the “Brazil Without Hunger” campaign in 2021, collecting the equivalent of 20 million kilos of food, with eight million Brazilians benefiting. The organization's main axis of activity is an extensive mobilization network formed by organized civil society committees. Although this year's edition of “Brazil Without Hunger” has already been completed, the “Christmas Without Hunger 2021” campaign is on air to continue bringing support to many people.

https://www.acaodacidadania.org.br/

– Matchfunding Face

Matchfunding Enfrente is a support model for projects in Brazilian outskirts that combines collective financing and investment from the fund made up of Fundação Tide Setubal and its partners. Project descriptions are gathered in a session on the Benfeitoria platform, and donors make their contributions. For every R$1 donated, another R$2 is contributed by the fund. In the campaign, there are editions with different themes, such as “Front Structuring” which brings together initiatives that seek to solve urban, social and economic problems aggravated in the outskirts. The Enfrente platform has already mobilized more than R$11 million from 2020 to November 2021.

https://benfeitoria.com/canal/enfrente

– Matchfunding Saving Lives

For every R$1 donated to Matchfunding Salvando Vidas, the BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) also donates R$1 to purchase equipment and supplies for public and philanthropic hospitals that serve at least 50% of patients through the SUS ( Health Unic System). In the first phase of the project, launched in April 2020, a crowdfunding campaign was carried out, and the amount raised was R$113 million by July 5, 2021. That month, Salvando Vidas opened a new stage in which raises donations starting at R$100,000.

https://puragratidao.net/entenda-o-projeto/

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