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FACULDADE DA AMAZÔNIA
ABOUT US
15 years ago, Faculdade da Amazônia-FAMA (FAMA – college of the Amazon region) emerged from a dream: to create in Vilhena, state of Rondonia and region a Higher Education Institution that included young people and adults who did not have the possibility of time to move to other locations to undertake such a dreamed higher education course.
From the courage of a Professor of Law, Mrs. Rosangela Cipriano dos Santos,Ph.D. the idea arose to create an institution that would meet this demand, and that would act in an inclusive way in the deepest sense of the word in relation to higher education.
When settling in Vilhena, a medium-sized city in northern Brazil and south of the Amazon region. Faculdade da Amazônia made a commitment to “permanently seek quality in the programs it offers to the region”. To this end, it developed a pedagogical project in line with the demands and thus choosing the courses it deemed most relevant to the training of professional staff whose arrival in the job market would become a strong impetus for regional socioeconomic development.
Our History
Faculdade Fama was founded in 2005 in Vilhena, state of Rondônia, in the beginning of the Brazilian Amazon. Dr. Rosângela Cipriano, a retired judge, had a dream: to found an institution focused on agriculture with sustainable development and other courses accessible to people to all the social classes.
Dr. Rosângela Cipriano has always had a passion for the Amazon and also for the preservation of the environment. It was with great love and dedication to the people of northern Brazil that the Faculdade da Amazônia was created.
Celebrities and journalists hardly know the problems of the largest area of tropical forest on the planet.
The challenge is huge. How to reconcile agriculture and sustainable development simultaneously? 51 percent of the Brazilian territory has a climate typical of equatorial forests. In this huge region, just over ten percent of the population of Brazil live, that is, around twenty million inhabitants.
The region has nine countries (Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) with five national languages. Many think that the Amazon is a utopia in which there are more Indians than descendants of foreign colonizers. The region of large forests in South America is a reality with millions of people who were born in cities surrounded by wonderful forests and enchanting landscapes.
The challenge of Faculdade da Amazônia is to bring opportunities to the Amazonian people causing the least negative impact on nature. The South American forest areas will serve as a great ecological improvement laboratory in the future. In the future, all countries will be obliged to practice reforestation. Few people know the rigor of environmental laws. In Brazil the legislation is very advanced, but there is a lot of impunity on the part of the government. All agricultural areas must have a large percentage of forest reserves. Surveillance technology will make it possible for virtually everyone on Earth to be able to monitor green areas around the world.
In this environment of enormous challenges there is an institution making it possible and impossible to put sustainable development into practice: FAMA – Faculdade da Amazônia.
Our Mission
Since its idealization and creation, FAMA’s mission is to invest in teaching and learning that enables its students to meet the needs and expectations of the labor market and society, with the competence to formulate, systematize and socialize knowledge in their areas of expertise. .
To achieve this goal, FAMA promotes higher education by integrating extension education, aiming at training entrepreneurial subjects and committed to self-knowledge, the social, cultural, political and economic transformation of sustainable development in the Amazon region.
The objective is to guide and develop initiatives that increase the quality of Education and with it the formation of responsible individuals, committed to their development and to the progress of society.
