Saúde e Alegría

Saúde e Alegria (health and happiness) is an NGO working with 150 local and isolated forest communities (30,000 people) in the Brazilian Amazon. It offers integrated and sustainable community development in the areas of social organization, health, sustainable forest management and agro-ecology, income generation, education and culture, gender, children and adolescents, popular communication and participative research. The objective is to support community development managed by the population itself. These processes interact with and serve as a reference for public policies.