The practice of Goodness

The practice of goodness and volunteer work are characteristic of the União do Vegetal. (Santarém – PA). Photo: DMD / Castelo de Marfim

beneficencia

The União do Vegetal preaches that the practice of goodness is the defense against  evil and also the way to cultivate love for God and fellow human beings. Based on this guidance, the UDV develops beneficent actions that have attended to more than 80,000 people throughout Brazil. This work is voluntary and carried out by UDV members, or by regional and local beneficent non-profits  created specifically for this purpose.

The Beneficent Association “Casa da União” was the first beneficent organization of the UDV, established on February 10, 1992, in Brasília (DF). Currently, there are 30 beneficent non-profit organizations run by members and linked to Nucleos of the União do Vegetal. They provide social, educational, medical, hospital, financial and cultural services to members of the Núcleos and to the community in which the Núcleos are located.

AID AND COOPERATION FROM THE BEGINNING

Helping others was part of the daily life of Mestre Gabriel and his first disciples when he created the UDV, on July 22, 1961, in the rubber tapping regions of the Amazon. Living in a very simple community with limited resources, they cooperated and to help one another.

This way of being continued naturally in Porto Velho (RO), where Mestre Gabriel and his disciples began the process of organizing the religion in 1965. In that city, the UDV was first registered as the Beneficent Association União do Vegetal in 1967 which later became the Beneficent Spiritist Center União do Vegetal in 1971.

RECOGNIZED FOR DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE

For its long and extensive charitable work, the Beneficent Spiritist Center União do Vegetal was recognized as a  “Federal Public Utility” (an organization of distinguished public service) by the Brazilian Government on July 22, 1999, and has maintained this status ever since. The Núcleos of the UDV and their regional and local beneficent organizations have also been recognized as public utilities  by seven state governments and eleven municipal governments. See the link below:

TITLE OF STATE PUBLIC UTILITY

There are nine Nucleos and beneficent organizations of the União do Vegetal that have been recognized as State public utilities:

      • Associação Beneficente Água Vida – Santarém/PA
      • Associação Beneficente Casa da Boa Esperança – Belém/PA
      • Casa Assistencial Coração de Maria – Rio de Janeiro/RJ
      • Casa da União Lar de Santana – Campo Grande/MS
      • Casa da União Santa Luzia – Cuiabá/MT
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Jardim Florido – Macapá/AP
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Estrela do Oriente – Boa Vista/RR
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Boa Vista – Boa Vista/RR
      • Instituto Beneficente Casa da União Divinópolis – Divinópolis/MG

TITLE OF MUNICIPAL PUBLIC UTILITY

The twelve Núcleos and beneficent organizations of the União do Vegetal recognized as  municipal public utility are:

      • Associação Beneficente Novo Horizonte – Porto Velho/RO
      • Casa da União Lar de Santana – Campo Grande/MS
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Alta Floresta – Alta Floresta D’Oeste/RO
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Arco Iris – Joaçaba/SC
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal- Núcleo Augusto Cangulê – Parauapebas/PA
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Rainha das Águas – Caldas/MG
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Rei Davi – Mogi das Cruzes/SP
      • Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal – Núcleo Santana do Paraíso – Santana do Paraíso/MG
      • Instituto Beneficente Casa Da União – Núcleo Lagoa da Prata – Lagoa da Prata/MG
      • Obras Assistenciais Casa do Bom Senhor da União – Ariquemes/RO
      • Unidade Assistencial do Núcleo Samaúma – Lar Sama – São Roque/SP
      • Unidade Beneficente Estrela da Manhã – Campinas/SP