The FASE - Federation of Organs for Social and Educational Assistance - was founded in 1961. It is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that operates today in six Brazilian states and has its national headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. From its beginnings, it was committed to the work of local, community and associative organization and development.
Throughout the 1960s, FASE laid the foundations for a work linked to associativism and cooperativism, but the coup of 64 made these directions have to be redefined.Resistance to dictatorship and the formation of trade union oppositions and community grassroots movements became the main focus of the organization.
Mission and Objectives
MISSION
FASE's mission is to contribute to the construction of a democratic and active society in favor of alternatives to the current development model, with environmental justice and universalization of social, economic, cultural, environmental, civil and political rights as initial conditions for the inclusion of large portion of the country's population still in conditions of inequality, poverty and discrimination.
GOALS
To advance in the construction of a political field critical to the dominant developmentalist project, in order to contribute in the collective dispute for a Brazil based on substantive democracy and socioenvironmental sustainability. The social and political mobilization of Brazilian society is a condition and means for guaranteeing and strengthening human rights, for a new agenda for proposing alternatives to the development model, for public policies, through new practices of control and social participation for change of the majority of the population.
CAUSES
The triennial 2014-2016 plan organizes FASE's action based on four major causes aimed at greater integration among the work teams and a more global reading of the issues and impasses generated by the development model adopted in Brazil. These are: Right to the City with Social and Environmental Justice ; Promotion of Sovereignty, Food and Nutrition Security and Agroecology ; Promotion of Environmental Justice, defense of common property and territorial rights ; andOrganization of women as subjects of rights .
