Since 1987, Fraternity – International Humanitarian Fraternity (FIHF) has been providing social and humanitarian assistance in national and international emergencies. It is supported by spontaneous donations, without being paid for the services it provides. Its main values are embodied in its name "Fraternity", i.e., to practice and disseminate fraternity, awakening and expanding human consciousness for a life with peace, love, and constructive participation of all for dignified living conditions.

One of its affiliates, the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) is also an internationally active non-profit organization with headquarters in Carmo da Cachoeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and soon-to-be in Geneva – registration is being finalized.

With a philosophical, cultural, humanitarian, environmental, and charitable character, the organization is linked to 23 national and international civil associations that make up the network of affiliates of the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Federation (FIHF), occasionally operating in 18 countries together with worldwide groups of collaborators.

Independent and neutral, the Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) welcomes all creeds, cultures, and religions, and has no ties to political or economic groups, or to established religions.

The Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) areas of assistance in humanitarian and emergency response include support to people in situations of refuge, affected by natural disasters, conflicts, and environmental catastrophes.

Its fully dedicated volunteers have been carrying out humanitarian missions and responding to emergencies in Brazil and other countries since 2011. They have already been present in social, natural, and environmental disasters, assistance to refugees and migrants, in countries such as Angola, Argentina, Egypt, Colombia, Ethiopia, Chile, Rwanda, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Lebanon, and Paraguay, in addition to Brazil.

The Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM) expresses its activities in the following axes of action:
• education in emergencies and humanitarian responses;
• first aid in emergency and trauma psychology;
• Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM);
• articulation in humanitarian management aiming at lasting solutions and strategy development

Its actions have the participation of local entities and the support of global agencies such as the UNHCR, the UNICEF, the IOM, the Sphere Association (Geneva), INEE, among others, that seek the expertise of the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Federation (FIHF) and its affiliate, Fraternity – Humanitarian Missions (FIHM), for the development of projects that can mitigate suffering, restore order, protect and preserve the integrity of each individual.

Since 2017, the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Federation (FIHF) has been managing five (5) Venezuelan indigenous refugee shelters as the UNHCR implementing partner in the state of Roraima, Brazil – at the Roraima Humanitarian Mission. The Humanitarian Fraternity (FIHF) has been however present in Roraima since 2016.

In 2020, the Fraternity – International Humanitarian Federation (FIHF) became the focal point of the Geneva Sphere Association in Brazil. In 2021, it was invited to join the global body of focal points of the Inter-institutional Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), further improving the services provided, based on international protocols and training hundreds of volunteers to join-in and serve in emergencies and humanitarian responses.

The Humanitarian Fraternity (FIHM) has also offered to the Sphere Association and thus translated, free of charge, the Sphere Handbook, the Using the Sphere Standards in Urban Settings’ Guide, as well as the Sphere Training content into Portuguese from Brazil and Portugal by our affiliate Irdin Publishing House.