Brazil

The Brazilian Zippy’s Friends programme is the largest in the world. From its start in a few schools in São Paulo in 2003, the programme has expanded enormously and is now running in Curitiba, ABC Paulista, Vale do Paraíba and Sorocaba as well as São Paulo.

Our original partner in Brazil was CVV (Centro de Valorisação da Vida), a national network of centres offering a listening service to people in crisis, but in 2004 a new organisation was set up, specifically to run Amigos do Zippy and similar programmes: ASEC (Associação pela Saúde Emocional de Crianças). Much of the work of ASEC is done voluntarily, and its small and dedicated team of trainers has had great success in developing Amigos do Zippy.

Brazil | Canada | China (Hong Kong) | China (Shanghai) | Denmark | England & Wales | Iceland | India | Ireland| Lithuania | Mauritius |Norway | Poland | Singapore | USA