FRATER
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At sunrise, women with baskets on their heads and men with hoes over their shoulders walk along a red-earth path on the Angolan plateau, the misty valley below.

FRATER

Associação Fraternidade FRATER. Solidarity that becomes opportunity in Angola's communities, since 2008.

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About us

We create, manage and deliver programmes in education, health, water, agriculture and social inclusion in Angola's most vulnerable communities, with partners who want to see their support turned into dignity and self-reliance.

We commit, individually and collectively, to the worth of the human person: the recovery of their values, rights and duties, and the social well-being that brings each person peace with themselves, in their family, at work and in society.

We are an Angolan voluntary and humanitarian association of individuals and organisations, non-partisan and non-profit, devoted to health, education, culture, agriculture, the environment and social assistance. We were born from the social and pastoral work of Rev. Dr. Filémon Buza, who has served communities in Angola and Brazil for more than four decades.

Our vision is to help build an inclusive, holistic society with a healthy environment for social well-being. We educate through information and training and we help people in the most vulnerable communities, with a clear focus: children, young people, widows, the elderly, people with reduced mobility or visual impairment, and people with chronic illness.

Every unit we create is designed to become self-sufficient. We speak with communities, never for them; we work with churches, cooperatives, schools and families, the first partners of every project; and we account to those who support us, from formalisation to completion.

2008Legal recognition published in the Official Gazette
8Programmes, from water to inclusive education
9Provinces with planned projects, from Luanda to Namibe
4Partnership steps, with regular reports to funders
Community meeting under a mango tree: men and women, elders and young adults, seated in a circle listen to an elderly leader, with a church in the background.
Community meeting. FRATER works from within communities: churches, cooperatives, schools and families.

Eight programmes to support

Each programme has a lead, an implementation plan and a detailed budget that we share with anyone who wishes to support it. The sun next to each project shows its stage.

In design Raising support
Village in Bengo in the late afternoon: a woman pumps water at a new community water point, another fills yellow jerrycans and the elders watch from a bench under a baobab.

Water for All

Water and sanitation
Bengo · Cuanza Sul · Huíla

Stage: raising support

Securing the right to safe drinking water in the country's most deprived communities: drilling boreholes, water storage units for the population and irrigation systems for small farming cooperatives, with local management committees trained by FRATER.

What your support makes possible
  • One borehole with a hand pump serves up to 300 people
  • A 10,000-litre tank for a school or health post
  • A drip-irrigation system for a 20-family cooperative
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A visually impaired young woman reads a Braille book with her fingertips, smiling, while a FRATER trainer guides another student on a laptop.

FRATER Training Centre

Inclusive education
Cabinda · Necuto · Belize

Inclusive and socio-economic education for women, young people and people with physical and visual disabilities: nurseries, schools and integral training centres, with courses in Braille, technology, national languages, Portuguese, English and French, designed to become self-sufficient.

What your support makes possible
  • Equip a training room for 25 trainees
  • A one-year technical training grant for a young person or a woman
  • Braille materials and assistive technology for one class
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An Angolan farmer in a straw hat holds maize cobs harvested from his field in Malanje at sunset, with a solar panel and irrigation lines behind him.

FRATER Farming Cooperative

Agriculture and food security
Malanje · Huambo · Bié

Strengthening farming, livestock, poultry and fish-farming cooperatives: financing fertiliser, tools and solar panels to grow soya, beans, maize and potatoes, and a trading platform, run by graduates of our Training Centre, that links farmers to supermarkets, wholesalers and exporters for a fair price.

What your support makes possible
  • A kit of inputs and tools for one cooperative for a growing season
  • A solar pumping and irrigation system
  • Development of the trading platform
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Geriatric health campaign in a plateau village: under a white tent, a nurse takes the blood pressure of a smiling elderly woman while other elders wait on a bench.

GeriFRATER

Health and older people
Luanda · Huambo · rural areas

Stage: in design

Training nurses and geriatric technicians to set up homes and support centres for older people, medical consultation campaigns in villages and settlements, and distribution of medicines to the population, in partnership with national and international institutions.

What your support makes possible
  • A mobile clinic in a rural commune for one week
  • A geriatrics training grant for one health worker
  • Essential medicines for one awareness campaign
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Young adults work on laptops in a community room; a mentor helps a smiling young woman.

FRATER Creative

Entrepreneurship and technology
Luanda · Benguela

A business incubator and a funding programme for entrepreneurial micro-projects, with modern technology within everyone's reach; we accompany each project until it becomes self-sufficient.

What your support makes possible
  • A start-up fund for ten youth micro-projects
  • Computers and internet for a digital inclusion centre
  • Mentoring and management training for a group of entrepreneurs
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Fishermen haul in a net full of fish beside a painted wooden boat at sunrise; a woman sorts the catch into crates.

Fishing Communities

Artisanal fishing
Benguela · Namibe · Luanda

Developing fishing cooperatives with equipment, logistics, training in fish preservation and storage, and sales strategies, so that the income stays with the families who fish.

What your support makes possible
  • A community cold room to preserve the catch
  • Engines, nets and life jackets for one cooperative
  • Training in hygiene, preservation and marketing
Stage: in designSupport
In a small community library, a librarian shelves books while two adult readers read at a table.

FRATER Library

Libraries and reading
Nationwide

Training librarians and collecting books for libraries, schools at every level, churches, hospitals and orphanages; where it makes sense, digital collections for those with no library nearby.

What your support makes possible
  • School books and literature in Portuguese and national languages
  • Shelving and furniture for a school or parish library
  • Tablets and a digital collection for one community
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Volunteers rebuild a small rural mission chapel and school: men on scaffolding fit new roof sheets, women pass buckets and an elderly pastor watches beside an acacia tree.

FRATER Church Community

Community infrastructure
Hard-to-reach areas

Stage: raising support

Support for setting up, restoring and building social and community projects serving legally recognised churches: boarding schools, mission schools, health posts in hard-to-reach areas, chapels, temples and missions, and ministers' residences worn down by time.

What your support makes possible
  • Building materials to restore a mission health post
  • Roofing and furniture for a rural mission school
  • Skilled labour and training of local maintenance teams
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How we work

Companies, embassies, churches, foundations and international organisations find in FRATER a clear process and regular accountability.

  1. Presentation

    We present the project and provide all the information the interested organisation needs to assess its feasibility.

  2. Formalisation

    Once approved, we formalise the partnership and provide the services needed to complete the plan.

  3. Delivery

    We implement on the ground with communities and local institutions, with teams trained by FRATER.

  4. Completion and reporting

    During and after implementation we produce regular reports on progress and the schedule of activities.

The hands of an elder and a child hold red soil with a small seedling, in golden light.
Every unit we create is designed to stay in the community and become self-sufficient.

Support FRATER

You can support a specific project or FRATER's mission as a whole. Every contribution is confirmed in writing and followed by implementation reports.

Bank transfer

For individuals and organisations, in Angola or abroad. State the project in the transfer description.

Institutional partnership

Companies, embassies and foundations can fund a complete programme, with an agreement, a detailed budget and reports.

In-kind donations and volunteering

Books, equipment, building materials, medicines, or your time and professional skills.

Bank transfer details

Associação Fraternidade Frater
IBAN
AO06 0040 0000 0334 6766 1014 0
Account number
30334676610001
SWIFT / BIC
BAIPAOLU
Bank
BAI · Banco Angolano de Investimentos (bank code 0040)
Currency
AOA · Kwanza
FRATER MISSAO

After the transfer, please send the receipt to info@ongfrater.org with your name or your organisation's, stating whether you need a receipt for tax purposes. Your support is included in the project reports.

FRATER's leadership

A collegial board, elected by the General Assembly, accountable to members and partners.

Rev. Dr. Filémon Buza

President

Founder. Doctoral candidate in African Studies, holder of master's degrees in Educational Administration and Theology; university lecturer and evangelical pastor in Angola and Brazil.

Dra. Maria de Fátima Nhedo Buza

Chair of the General Assembly

Degree in Pedagogy, master's candidate in Educational Administration; school director and teacher in Angola and Brazil, with leadership of women's projects.

Transparency

On request to info@ongfrater.org, we provide any partner with the documents that underpin our work.

  • Statutes of the Associação Fraternidade FRATER
  • Publication in the Official Gazette (series III, no. 219, 2008)
  • Minutes of the founding assembly and composition of the governing bodies
  • Detailed budget and schedule of each project

Get in touch

To propose a partnership, request a project's detailed budget or visit us in Luanda.

E-mailinfo@ongfrater.org
Phone and WhatsApp+244 935 767 658
+244 991 316 951
Head officeCentralidade do Kilamba, Quarteirão Z-26, 3rd floor, Apartment 31 · Belas Municipality, Luanda, Angola

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