Frères des Hommes

Frères des Hommes France (FdH; English: Brotherhood of Men) is a secular and a non-profit aid organization that operates sustainable development projects in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The organisation is focussed on small-scale agriculture, social economy and democratic citizenship.

Partnerships

Small-scale agriculture

• Peasant Papaya Movement (MPP) in Haiti supports peasant families in order to develop the farming sector in the Central Plateau of Haiti. The project works to restore and develop the familial agriculture (2010–2013);
• Trust Rural Development (TRD) in India trains peasant families dedicated to agroecology. In collaboration with Frères des Hommes, they boost the training of these families (2009–2011);
• Movement of the Landless (MST) in Brazil fights to defend the social, economic and political rights of landless peasants. The action helped to reinforce this Movement (1995–2003);
• Adenya and Duhamic-Adri in Rwanda. Adenya is an organization dedicated to Nyabimata’s development, in the South-west of Rwanda. Duhamic-Adri is an organization for integrated rural development. These two partners work together with Frères des Hommes proposing cultural and agricultural alternatives (2013–2015);
• Farmers and Breeders Peasant Cooperation (Coraca Protal) in Bolivia, helps the reconstruction of peasant communities. Coraca-Protal has taken part in two projects supported by Frères des Hommes and made in collaboration with other Bolivian partners: The social economy aid to peasants (2013) and the sustainable tourism towards communities (2008–2010);
• Ekta Parishad in India works to achieve the autonomy of the poorest sectors of the population, especially due to land access difficulties. In collaboration with Frères des Hommes, they helped smallholder farmers, landless workers and tribes to fight for their rights to access the natural resources(2006–2008);
• PDRN in Philippines helps victims of environmental disasters and trains citizens in the risk management field.

Social economy

• Union of Méckhé Peasants Association (UGPM) in Senegal supports women in Méckhé, improving handmade peanut plant and millet and their commercialization. Frères des Hommes and its partner develop, both in urban and rural areas, the commercialization of high quality peanut plant oil produced by Méckhé women (2011–2015);
• Kora-PRD in Senegal works with carpenters in their fight against school expulsion and young unemployment. This project has developed a new program focused on technical and professional training (2011–2012);
• Feminine entrepreneurship Association (Apef) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo gives women means to make a living from their work, know and defend their rights and take an active role in the local political arena. In the region of Bukavu, these two organizations have developed economic and educational activities carried out by women and for women that do not have enough means (2009–2011);
• Red Tusoco works with peasant communities to carry out sustainable tourism activities that are respectful of human beings and nature (2008–2010);
• CIOEC Cochabamba in Bolivia coordinates Kampesino, a caring company that supports the transformation and commercialization of goods produced by farming organizations. With Frères des Hommes they worked to promote a consortium model to commercialize peasant’s farming products (2013);
• Adenya and Duhamic-Adri in Rwanda helped strengthen economic activities in rural areas. The goal of the project was to develop and promote wood and forge homemade work (2009–2011);
• Adec-ATC in Peru manages employment issues, supporting the most vulnerable sectors;
• Coraca-Protal in Bolivia, is a peasant organization that goes into action and leads a global local development program in the region of Cochabamba, in the center of Bolivia, basically organizing the production, transformation and commercialization of food crops;
• Cenca in Peru works with Lima's working class to develop economic activities for them and become collective subjects. The project has carried out a fair trade micro-program(2013);
• PhilNet-RDI in Philippines is a militant alternative Philippine network that works to reinforce rural economic activities.

Democratic citizenship

• Union of Farmer Groups of Méckhé (UGPM) in Senegal carries out supporting activities to provide inputs to training and socialization for young farmers in the Thiès region;
• Graim in Senegal is an association that works with decentralization and with the health and education sectors, in the Thiès region. Together they created Radio Coorkaat in the Thiès High plateaum in west Senegal (2009–2011);
• Fedesi in Ivory Coast leads the organization and the development of economic activities for workers in the informal sector who carry out their duties in unsafe conditions;
• Cieric in Cuba, works for social development and works with the people to encourage them exercise their citizenship, organizing artistic and socio cultural activities;
• Cresfed in Haiti trains civil and public authorities actors for the exercise of democracy;
• Fedina in India assists the marginalized population in defending their rights and becoming actors in their own emancipation. (2008). Also worked to apply the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) to the benefit of rural populations (2009–2011); http://fedina.org/?page_id=1036
• Consortium for the land reform (KPA) in Indonesia works for the attainment of the Indonesian land reform, and gives marginalized populations the means to defend their right to access their land. Together, they fought against poverty and for a better distribution of the country’s natural resources (2009);
• Pergerakan in Indonesia is a group that works with social movements emerged from the working classes, especially rural
• Piler in Pakistan is a center for the economic, social and cultural promotion of vulnerable workers. It also aims to provide them with the education.

External links

• Official website