Beth Bruno Project: Amazon communities and the union of popular knowledge with integrative and complementary practices
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Abstract
The Beth Bruno Project was born in Santarém, Pará, in 2010, with the purpose of training community leaders, as caregivers (naturalistic therapists) and health multiplying agents, so that they could take care of their communities, using integrative and complementary practices as resources. Since then, this Project has benefited a population made up of people from low-income communities on the periphery of cities and rural residents, usually families who work in places far from large centers. The proximity of the forest, with its remarkable strength and presence, gave this population its own characteristics. One of them is the use of plants in the different demands of everyday life: in food, in natural remedies, in the artisanal production of household utensils and in the creation of jewelry. The environment, in turn, also played an important role in shaping that society and its customs. The Beth Bruno Project today includes communities in other regions of the state of Pará, and other states such as: Maranhão, Piauí and Roraima.
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Author(s)
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Luciana Prado Hadid Chammas
Healing Institute (Beth Bruno Project), Rua Joaquim Nabuco, N ° 47 Conj. 137, Brooklin Paulista, CEP 04621-000, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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