Frères des Hommes


Frères des Hommes France is a secular non-profit aid organization. It was recognized as promoting the public interest in 1998 and involves 250 members and 250 volunteers spread within 13 local teams.
Frères des Hommes supports projects of sustainable development in Asia, Africa and Latin America on the following issues: small-scale agriculture, social economy and democratic citizenship.

History

Frères des Hommes' story starts in India in 1965, in Calcutta. Impressed by the deplorable spectacle of this "capital of misery" Armand Marquisel decides to create, once he was back in France, the NGO Frères des Hommes. He recruits volunteers willing to go to India with him and create the first Frères des Hommes center, in Calcutta, where they feed the children.
At its beginning, the ONG was organized by different Frères des Hommes centers in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where the volunteers worked. In the 1970s, they were already more than 100 all over the three continents.
In 1980, the Charter of the NGO launched a new functioning that established a partnership with local organizations: the assistantship developed during the first years disappeared to a real cooperative work. This original method guided, from then on, all actions carried out by Frères des Hommes.
In 2011, Frères des Hommes celebrated its 45th anniversary.

Philosophy

Frères des Hommes bases its activities on a long term partnership with its representatives from the South. This imminence implies sharing ideals and goals, supporting new or existing initiatives, as well as co-responsibility.
All projects supported by Frères des Hommes are designed and set up by the people, with the help of local organizations. Therefore, each project responds to real needs. More than a background lessor, Frères des Homes is a European civil actor and a meeting point between the movements and organizations from both the North and the South who wish to build together a fairer society.

Partners and some actions around the world

[Small-scale agriculture]