History · Founding milestones
The Brazilian Ethics Association was born as ABRA — Friends of Brazil for Ethics, in 2006-2007, with the purpose of turning civic restlessness into organised institutional action. The timeline below brings together founding milestones, public qualifications and recognitions.
Institutional text describing ABRA's reason for being, its conception of ethics inspired by Aristotle, Huberto Rohden and Gautama Buddha, and the ideal of recovering universal values.
Founding minutes signed in Sobradinho-DF. Defined the founding board — Cleiton Pereira dos Reis (President), Claudiney Araruna de Almeida (Vice), Jefferson Francisco Ramos Poli (Fiscal Council) — and the association's first projects.
Qualification as Civil Society Organization of Public Interest, MJ process nº 08071.000126/2008-18, decision by the National Justice Secretary on 24/03/2008.
Resolution nº 57 of 22/05/2020 granting provisional registration to AEB before the CDCA-DF — attesting performance compliant with the Children and Adolescent Statute.
Federal District Social Seal capacity-building cycles, year by year, with OSCIP-ABRA registered as a participating organisation.
Founding manifesto
We bring peace to the poor and oppressed, shelter to those hungry for spirit and love, and we drive away the fear of those afflicted by relentless pain until we embrace their causes. We are gentleness for the powerless and lost hope along the path of desolation. We fight for a world of conscience where fraternity and solidarity are like the air we breathe: vital, without price, without deadline, without condition. Social service is all we know, and that is what we were born for.
— Jefferson F. R. Poli — Letter to the Third Sector
Read the full textOSCIP-ABRA institutional recognition
The Dulce Salles Medal was instituted by OSCIP-ABRA in 2008, in memory of Dulce Salles Cunha Braga, aunt of Vice-President Jefferson Poli. It is delivered sporadically as a symbol of peace, honour and merit, to men and women of great value to the public cause.
Senator for PDS-SP in 1982, São Paulo state representative for successive legislatures, city councillor, lawyer, opera singer and teacher. Pioneer of mass literacy through radio and television — the basis for MOBRAL — and, as a constituent in 1967, author of the amendment that gave rise to CONDEPHAAT (the São Paulo State Council for Historical, Artistic, Archaeological and Tourist Heritage).
Laureate: Cleiton Pereira dos Reis
The first Dulce Salles Medal was awarded to OSCIP-ABRA's founding President, Cleiton Pereira dos Reis, for conceiving the Citizen Cinema course and shaping young people into citizens aware of ethics, morals and civics. The ceremony marked the end of the 1st graduating class of Citizen Cinema.
"In memory of a great woman who is no longer with us, OSCIP-ABRA institutes this medal — a symbol of peace, honour and merit — to men and women of great value. May this medal also be engraved in our hearts."Open speech
