WHO IS FIAR, AND WHAT DEVELOPS?

FIAR is a particular institution of social solidarity, with

recognized public utility, founded and formed by
volunteers, whose mission is to convey the Christian
witness to prisoners, ex-prisoners and their families,
including children, as victims of the incarceration of
parents, providing also the prisoners assistance spiritual,
moral, social, material, cultural and inclusive community,
to contribute to their personal dignity.

FIAR takes responsibility to bring the movement of the

voluntary work in prisons nationally, valuing their
aspirations and activities, assuming the role of spokesman
to the competent authorities and other institutions of
civil society, to contribute to the finding of solutions.

FIAR would like to be the center of convergence of the

Movement of Volunteers of Prisons (MVP) at the national
level and its spokesman to the competent authorities and
other institutions of civil society for the protection and
enhancement of the Person of the prisoner, or in prison
environment, and being full and dignified social
reintegration.
FIAR respects, obviously, just the autonomy and specific
characteristics of each group of the MVP, but aims to
stimulate a fraternal spirit among all, and the inter-
working groups and groups with itself. The union makes the
force.

FIAR, within its capabilities, search:

a) support the prisoners through visits and monitoring. The
volunteers will visit to share, listen and learn, bearing
in mind that "there is more joy in giving than in
receiving." The visitors can create groups (informal)
discussions with the inmates about the values of life,
encouraging forums for sharing and dialogue;
b) support the families of inmates, working in the
approximation of the prisoner and his family and the
resolution of any problems that prevent or hinder the
relationship;
c) contribute to social integration and community of the
prisoner, sensitizing the society to the need for the
duration of imprisonment is not only seen in the light of a
punitive justice, but should rather open up the design of
higher restorative justice, which aims the recovery of the
full human person of the offender, both during and after
completion of sentence or a detention;
d) develop projects and activities in areas of research and
training, the volunteers who value and contribute directly
or indirectly for the rehabilitation of prisoners.
programs for greater impact that PFI has promoted are those
related to restorative justice - the cornerstone of the
spirit that PFI demand and live broadcast of programs and
has prepared for implementation.

FIAR advocates the pursuit of programs under a vision that

goes beyond the concept of crime and consequent application
of punishment, this is, beyond the limited contours of
punitive justice, as directed by a Restorative Justice
which places its emphasis the repair of the evil caused by
the offender / abuser, the reapprochement between the
offender and victim and the relationship of both with the
Community's concern. We also offer the possibility of
change within all the players in the process.

Are mainly visits to prisons, houses of the transition

(output or host), the vocational training courses and staff
the programs of the Angel Tree, Tree Project -Filemon and
Sycamore, and finally the prison community based on faith.

As to the latter, the emphasis goes to the methodology of

the Brazilian APAC prison, watched and put into practice by
Mário OTTOBONI, Brazilian journalist and lawyer, Catholic.
of São José dos Campos (State of S. Paulo), which for more
than 30 years has improved in the light of experience.

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