The Project Health and Happiness has 26 years of experience working with socially and geographically excluded populations in the Brazilian Amazon region. The credibility that the organization has gained among the people as a result of all of this time of work has allowed it to expand its area and purpose of intervention, with a more comprehensive agenda for integrated and sustainable community development, and with a methodology that the organization is purposely systematizing with aims at scaling the project within and beyond this region.

PHH initiatives are divided into Territorial Development, Health, Education, Culture, and Communication, and they are all structured through a permanent process of Institutional Integration that enables their mutual support.

This integrative approach has been one of the organization’s main strengths from the very beginning. PHH started as a health delivery program in the year 2006, when the organization acquired a boat (the Abare Ship) that, making regular rounds from community to community, approached people with an interdisciplinary team presented as the Mocorongo Great Circus teaching them how to take care of their hygiene and prevent diseases through fun, participatory games. Personnel from the boat also offered basic medical and dental attention, family planning trainings, minor surgeries, adapted technologies such as micro-systems for the provision and treatment of water, house filters, wells, etc.